I attended a media forum at MIT last night, and Terence Smith, senior producer of the Jim Lehrer News Hour, pointed out something quite interesting - the very first blogger post on the documents being fake was made 18 minutes after the memo story was introduced on 60 Minutes II. The program had not yet ended and there were already charges against the memo authenticity. How can that be? Well, perhaps, someone already knew the story was coming out and was prepared to pounce- just a thought.http://openthread.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/18/122051/247'talon was planted by White House to direct attention off Bush's war record and onto CBC.

So here we are just two months before the election and CBS scraps its show on the WMD/Niger misinformation and replaces it with the now infamous Killian Documents story. Goodbye, Dan Rather. On to Joe Wilson.

Interesting that Jeff Talon, the White House 'plant' reporter, was the first to identify CBS producer Mary Mapes as the 'liberal' Bush hater behind the story... But as I recall, CBS' initial schedule for that date was to air a different story on Bush, a story that was never aired after the hoopla