Not much and too late, it would seem.

The only reasonable (to me) inference is that Dan is desperate to protect the source of the memos. This would indicate three likely possibilities: 1) the Kerry campaign, 2) the DNC, or 3) his daughter.

Doubtless the NYT and WaPo editorial pages will be issuing mea culpas tommorrow for being fooled again by bad intelligence.

Basically CBS was playing Russian roulette for $5 stakes on this. If they got lucky and the memos were real, they get a couple of days of news, but no one cares anyway, because this story was played to death years ago. If they were unlucky, they're toast. They're looking awfully crispy right about now...

It was interesting watching Margaret Carlson prattle on during The Capital Gang tonight about how the Boston Globe had come up with a typographic expert who was supporing CBS' story, since Dr. Bouffard's complaints about being decived by the paper had been on the Internet for about 5 1/2 hours at the time.

To be fair, Bob Novak didn't know about the latest claims either, but you would think someone on CNN's research staff, if not the panelists themselves, would have at least peeked at the Internet during the day to see if there were any new developments (On the other hand, when Al Hunt introduced the segement, he promanently mentioned questions being raised about the CBS report by ABC, The Washington Post and The New York Times and,ohyes,afewwebsitesmayhavedonesomethingtopushthestoryalong, but we won't get into even mentioning any names, because they're .. well, they're websites).

What did Dan Rather know and when did he know it?

Probably when he helped rig the thing up. He's a liar and so is CBS. I read all this nonsense about him being snookered. Snookered is a bunch of BS,He knew the documents are forgeries but it fit his agenda. He has to know but he has the microphone. Why is the first amendment waisted on d**k heads like Rather and CBS? I feel sad that this thing will dwindle out and CBS will come out on top like always. They still have the floor and the loudest voice. I hope you guy's with the blogs keep after CBS and knock the props out from under them. You're our only hope. Don't give in. TW

Typical Capital gang ratings: 500,000
Typpical Drudge Daily Readers 4,000,000

Guys, we need to keep the pressure up on this. I think Dr. Bouffard now needs to avail himself of the services of a junkyard-dog type of lawyer or PR person who will apply their teeth to the collective rears of the MSM until they get the story straight, and we need to do our parts by contacting the local MSM outlets and telling them where they're going wrong. I already emailed the Globe's ombudsman tonight and sent her links to all the previous INDC posts where Dr. Bouffard expresses his opinion. (Small hope of her actually reading them, I know, but the effort is the effort.)

Slightly OT - the Boston PBS station has a show called Beat the Press hosted by Emily Rooney (Andy Rooney's daughter) and has a few local news types on (mostly lefties). The show analyzes the news from the press' point of view. The last week few week have been amazing as the panelists rail on about the internet, shoddy reporting by the internet, the unfairness of the swift boat ads, journalist integrity, etc. filtered through the lefty media lens. It is really true that old media is crumbling and has no idea what hit them.

Well...

I'd hold the obituaries for the "old media".
While it's true that the old style of the MSM is going away, the companies and "talent", (for lack of a better term), are not going to go away.

They're going to co-opt the blogsphere.

The current crop of blogs will end up being the tabloids of the New Media.

On the plus side, some current bloggers might end up making a nice career out of the transition.