For those on the Left who find all this MemoGate stuff uninteresting, take a look at this post over at INDC Journal:
[I]t's not "the charges, stupid," it's the fact that a highly trusted media organization passed off fake documents in order to make those charges. Close your eyes, count to ten, breathe deeply, and try to focus your mind on what your reaction might be if John Kerry was accused of disobeying a direct order while in the military [by, say, Sean Hannity of Fox News], based on fake documents. Now root around a little deeper into the recesses of your ... brain and imagine that these charges were true to one degree or another. Now tell me: how you would feel about what the media organization did with those obviously fake documents? Wouldn't it be important? Can you grasp the implications for the well-being of the press and the function of our society as a whole, and how it could be a separate issue that's more important than John Kerry or George Bush?Posted by Kevin Murphy at September 15, 2004 11:58 AM | TrackBack