What color is the sky in your world? After arguing that the CBS forgeries were real until they are blue in the face, the Daily Kos suddenly realized that they must be fake because they came from Karl Rove.

Their reasoning (all of which hinges on Burkett being a credible witness) - Burkett was telling people about Bush's files being cleaned of embarrasing details. This would be a federal crime so Rove had to discredit Burkett.

So Burkett was, indeed, given a poison pill of sorts. In March of 2004, soon after Burkett started appearing throughout the media telling his story, a woman by the name of "Lucy Ramirez" called him up to ask him to take documents she had discovered, but wanted no part of. A meet was arranged; the documents were handed to Burkett. The documents were ones that indeed matched the events in question precisely, and were very compelling; they were also a plant.

They were clearly forgeries, or so the operatives thought, to anyone who knew about the capabilities of typewriters in the early 1970s. Surely, if Burkett released those documents to the press, they would be discovered as fraudulent immediately, and Burkett would be made to look not only like an "unhinged" nutcase, but like a purveyor of forged documents as well.

So, after spending a week and a half trying to prove that the documents were real and could have been produced in the 1970s, the Kos now tells us that they were meant to be so bad that anyone who knew anything about typewriters would know that they were fakes.

Let me repeat that. Someone who, on Sept. 10, insisted that he was an expert on fonts and that the documents were genuine now says that the documents were badly forged so that they would immediately be recognized as fakes.

Better put on a neckbrace. You can get whiplash when you switch direction that fast.

Does he believe it? Maybe.

Now, here's the problem with what I've written, above.

None of it is true.

Or, to be infinitely more precise; it might be, or it might not be. It is speculation, not evidence.

All the dates, cited documents, media reports, and other facts as I have outlined them are indeed absolutely true, and Karl Rove has indeed performed very similar "ratfucking" operations before. And there does seem to be tentative but growing consensus that the "newly discovered" documents that are in Bush's files are, indeed, part of tampering and forgery efforts by someone connected to the Bush campaign. But I have simply pulled the rest, the backstory that ties it all together as relates to
the Killian memos, out of my ass.

Still, as I said at the beginning of this piece, proving things has proven to be a colossal waste of time. Nobody in the media, and certainly nobody on the Internet, gives a rat's ass about proving their theories. The moral for both bloggers and national television hosts is simply "if it sounds good, say it!"

So, even though I have absolutely no facts to back up my above assertion -- that this was indeed a classic Rovian tactic meant to neutralize Burkett himself, but one that
blew entirely out of control -- I certainly think this analysis is sound enough for the entire Internet, as well as all newspapers, television personalities, and other media to start running with this story.

After all, it fits the
facts as we know them, better than any other explanation currently being
touted.