"I'm sure this was an important story, somewhere."

It's an important story right here, on Shot In The Dark, in the editorial opinion of Mitch Berg, Absolute Editor for Life.

Rocket Man took Mapes to school. Again. The woman - a figurehead for the legacy media if ever there were one - is being made to look like an idiot, over and over again. If she were a guy, Rocket Man would have her by the cojones. Claiming that the Burnett Dox are anything but forgeries, and amateurish ones at that...there's only one word for it. Stupid.

And every time the subject comes up, it gets stupider and stupider.

"like illegal gerrymandering that impair the ability of the nation to be certian democracy hasn't been corrupted..."
Except your linked story doesn't say it was illegal, just that it's being reviewed by the Supreme Court.
Uh . . . and since when are congressional districts being drawn with the goal of ensuring that democracy hasn't been corrupted? Isn't the purpose of gerrymandering, legal or not, to leverage what may be a slight partisan plurality into a larger majority of voting legislators? Democracy is frustrated when political party A draws congressional district boundaries to favor themselves in a census year, and despite political changes in the electorate the people of that state have to live with the gerrymandered districts for another 8 years.
I'm eagerly awaiting the always consistent PB's denunciation of the gerrymandering of California's congressional districts.

"What about Tom DeLay?" has seemingly replaced "You're a bigot!" in the left-wing's responsorials these days.

As Jed Clampett might say, "Pitiful. Just pitiful."

"What about Tom DeLay?" has seemingly replaced "You're a bigot!" in the left-wing's responsorials these days.

As Jed Clampett might say, "Pitiful. Just pitiful."

"As Jed Clampett might say, "Pitiful. Just pitiful.""

Not to rain on your parade, but I'm pretty sure that was Daffy Duck.

Regardless of the attribution, the quote is appropriate for PBrain. See how he tries to change the subject to one that isn't even tangentally close to the subject at hand -- even Mapes could draw a thin parallel by going after Schiavo. PBrain justs grabs the first boogeyman he can find in his closet of right-wing nutjobs.

It is pitiful, really. When he started commenting here I really believed that he was interested in reasoned debate, even in disagreement. Now it's clear that PBrain only comments to see his words in print and impress us with his big vocabulary (that he can't spell right) and show us how much "stuff" he knows. It was entertaining for a while. Now it's just sad.

Seriously, Mitch, you need to trade the pet troll in for a new one.

I have nothing against the guys at Powerline, but they didn't provide the most compelling evidence that the memos were forgeries.

For me, the clingher was Little Green Footballs' animated GIF flashing back and forth between the memo offered by CBS as authentic, and the memo typed by Charles Johnson using the default Microsoft Word settings. Watch it for ten seconds and it becomes painfully obvious that the CBS memos are recent fabrications.

No expertise needed. Just look at the damned things. It's obvious.

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Powerline (and its readers -- er, I mean Rove's paid minions) started the ball rolling, then Charles Johnson provided the obvious proof.
No one has ever produced a matching document using equipment available at the time -- despite some 'experts' saying that is might have been possible.
Mapes is vile and pathetic. That she can write a book and hit the talk show circuit is part of why this country is great. That the rest of the MSM still uses weasel phrases like 'the authenticity of the documents is still in doubt' is part of why the MSM is completely out to lunch and increasingly irrelevant. It's like saying 'allegedly there is a 900 pound purple gorilla in the room eating people, but experts differ on the subject.'