Boy, did we ever take the bait.

[asthmaticeog]

"The documents are FORGED!" "No, they're not!" "CNN's talking about how the documents were FORGED!" "Proof that the documents weren't FORGED!" "Hey, I heard those documents were FORGED! Were they?" "No way, dude." "But, but, but..."

1000 kids dead for a lie, the economy beneath the shitter, proven liars and violent lunatics running the show, secret agents exposed for the sake of political expediency; and we sit here arguing for two days about different models of IBM Selectrics.

This is why we lose so often. It's called "getting off-message."

[Lex]

1. We?

Hmmm . . .

[EST]

4. (Has mouse in pocket)(whispering)

n/t

[Beetwasher]

2. Yup, But The Media Is MORE Than Complicit In This

They are corrupt beyond corrupt. This whole forgery thing should never have even been given a second thought after 5 minutes of google showed thousands upon thousands of similar documents in the gov't archives w/ identical typeset.

[Cocoa]

12. true

[lectrobyte]

3. Exactly. Pretty frustrating, is it not?

[Search Party]

11. OR perfectly frustrating

[lancdem]

5. Yep

[WatchWhatISay]

6. Maybe, but this issue must be addressed

"This is why we lose so often. It's called "getting off-message."

Otherwise they can use it against us. The beauty is, if it checks out OK in the end, they will have brought much more attention to the underlying allegations than they originally planned to.

[Ducks In A Row]

7. Excuse me? We? Please, no one with a brain fell for it.

[asthmaticeog]

17. Don't take it personally, please.

I'm using the "we" in reference to DU writ large.

[liberal N proud]

8. First Swiftboats, then Selectric Typwriters, what is next?

What will we all fall for next week?

[spotbird]

10. Something we haven't thought of, no doubt. nt

[Cocoa]

9. I was quite upset coming here this morning

a big downer to see so many fall for it.

[zulchzulu]

13. As soon as I saw the documents in the story...

..I knew they were going to go after them. They want to spin the story this weekend that they were fake.

Super rapid response needed!

[LuminousX]

14. It's because we don't trust ourselves

We don't trust our sources and our advocates.

[City Lights]

15. Josh Marshall is still swallowing it. eom

[henslee]

16. A bunch of flipfloppers! Frankly, I am proud. DUers' were open enough to

entertain both positions on the issue, willing to accept the truth and deal with it. This is a far cry from the rigidity some others seem to display.