Going AWOL: Why did the media wait 7 months to reveal ‘truth’ about Bush’s National Guard service?

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18. The Occum's Razor part...

Why on Earth would a respected news organization (at least up until this fiasco), and respected journalists, go out of their way to fabricate such a story? Why involve so many top journalists in their scam? What did they have to gain? Why was it so important to them to make up so-called phony documents and take the risk of this all blowing up in their faces -- for what?

Occum's Razor; the simplest explanation is likely true. "

Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

The explanation with the fewest assumptions is that the son of a Senator/former CIA director Bush was allowed to go AWOL during the nasty, terrible, icky Vietnam war, when rich kids of privilege were doing this all the time. It's far more plausible than that an entire news organization conspired to create a bogus document to air on its Sunday news show.