Monday, September 20, 2004

Eye on the Eye

Fox News says the unresolved "big issue" surrounding the Killian memos is whether Dan Rather will be fired. Isn't the "big issue" whether the documents are a smoke-screen for the shortcomings in Bush's service record? Isn't the "big issue" whether the whole scandal is just another Rovian weapon of mass distraction?

I'll admit Bill Burkett is probably guilty as sin in passing the memos to CBS. But Rove has been known to do things like planting listening devices in his own office and then crying foul that he's been bugged. The fact that some are saying the memos prove incontrovertibly that the media is rife with bias, and they have no choice but to cast their lot with the president, suggests just how clever such a Rovian ruse could be. The bias-bleaters have gotten more mileage from the story of the hoax than the Kerry campaign possibly could hasve gotten out of the forged documents. (I mean, for a hoax, couldn't Burkett have been a bit more incendiary?)

Just a conspiracy theory? I hope so. I'm just glad the debates are coming up - we might finally see substance in this campaign.