Rathergate was one of the right-wing blogosphere's greatest moments, so it's nice how Dan Rather is suing CBS so we can kick him around some more.

Boy, that was great times when that all happened. I did my first traditional political comic (with symbolism and stuff) and I had a parody of mine mentioned on FOX News by Brit Hume (without credit). And I just have to say this again: Worst. Forgeries. Ever.

They were the absolute worst forgeries ever in the history of everything. Anyone could just look at it and realize, "That was made in MSWord and photocopied." Some went to great lengths to prove that they were forgeries mentioning things like "kearning," but to me the best response to anyone who thought the documents were real was, "LOOK AT IT, YOU @#$% IDIOT! IT WAS WRITTEN IN MSWord!! JUST LOOK AT IT!!!" Really, you don't even need Charles Johnson's animated gif to prove it; if you ever used MSWord, you should be able to see the document was written in the extremely familiar default settings. Why the forger never even bother to switch to the New Courier font which actually looks like the result of a typewriter (used in my forgery), we'll never know. I guess he had CBS on the line and only had like two minutes to do up some fake documents.

Now, Rather claimed he had "document experts" verify the Killian memos, but what did he have them do? Verify they were actually pieces of paper? Any document expert who didn't look at those and say, "That's just something made in MSWord," should be shot for extreme incompetence. Also, the explanations from the nutroots for how the documents could be real were just stunning. They claim to be interested in science and be "reality-based," yet they came up with explanations for the documents that were even more convoluted that the arguments of those who believe the earth is flat. "If the secretary had a certain $20,000 typewriter, spent five hours writing these memos, there is a one in a trillion chance it would end up looking like the default setting in MSWord over thirty years later... so we should assume these documents are true!" Anyone who believe those documents for even a second should never be allowed to make political arguments on anything that involves science or logic ever again.

Jim Treacher has a good suggestion: CBS should settle and give Rather seventy million photocopies of a one dollar bill. It's not like he'd be able to tell them from the real thing. I'm just happy he popped his head up so we could whack him again for old time's sake.

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