With Kerry’s poll numbers continuing to tank, and his negatives hitting an all-time low, the DNC, along with its 527s and its enablers in the media, are taking one more desperate run at Dubya’s National Guard record.

Hilarously, it looks like they’re doing so with forged documents. I find it highly unlikely that:

a) Anyone in the Air National Guard would be using a typeball with a superscript “th” in it in the early ’70s.

b) The same machine on which this magical typeball existed would also do proportional font (and break lines exactly the same way a word processor would and

c) any document typewritten in that era would be capable of being overlaid with a present-day Word document with exactly the same wording.

I have a high level of confidence at this point that the documents that Dan Rather and Sixty Minutes thought were going to salvage Kerry’s presidential campaign were forged. Moreover, I think that the CBS eye has to be looking very black right now, and their credibility in the toilet.

It’s been said before, but it bears repeating. If Kerry loses this election (as seems increasingly likely), it won’t be his loss alone. It will be a watershed event in which the Internet took down the mainstream media, destroying their increasingly unjustified reputations for either objectivity or accuracy. They will be the real casualties in this election, and it will put the lie to Evan Thomas’ notion that their support is worth fifteen points. At the rate they’re going, their best shot at getting Kerry elected is to start supporting the president, in an attempt to damage him as much as they have their own anointed candidate.

I have to say that it couldn’t happen to a more deserving pack of sanctimonious twits.

Al Gore, that is.

His latest rant is stunning in its chutzpah:

“The claim by Bush and Cheney that the American people must give them four more years in office or else be ‘hit hard’ by another terrorist attack is a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear,” Gore said.

“They are going back to the ugliest page in the Republican playbook: fear,” he said. “They’re not even really trying to convince you to vote for George Bush. Their only hope, they’ve decided, is to try and make you too afraid to vote for John Kerry. It’s the lowest sort of politics imaginable. It is not worthy of a presidential candidate.”

This from a man who, in 1996, bellowed at the nation that if the Evil Republicans retained Congress, that they would poison the air and water, starve schoolchildren, and force old folks to eat kibbles and bits, before throwing them out of their homes. This from a man whose party ran radio ads in St. Louis claiming that “more black churches would burn” in the event of a Republican victory.

This only elicits one more sigh of relief that he didn’t win in 2000.

Al Gore, that is.

His latest rant is stunning in its chutzpah:

“The claim by Bush and Cheney that the American people must give them four more years in office or else be ‘hit hard’ by another terrorist attack is a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear,” Gore said.

“They are going back to the ugliest page in the Republican playbook: fear,” he said. “They’re not even really trying to convince you to vote for George Bush. Their only hope, they’ve decided, is to try and make you too afraid to vote for John Kerry. It’s the lowest sort of politics imaginable. It is not worthy of a presidential candidate.”

This from a man who, in 1996, bellowed at the nation that if the Evil Republicans retained Congress, that they would poison the air and water, starve schoolchildren, and force old folks to eat kibbles and bits, before throwing them out of their homes. This from a man whose party ran radio ads in St. Louis claiming that “more black churches would burn” in the event of a Republican victory.

This only elicits one more sigh of relief that he didn’t win in 2000.

Al Gore, that is.

His latest rant is stunning in its chutzpah:

“The claim by Bush and Cheney that the American people must give them four more years in office or else be ‘hit hard’ by another terrorist attack is a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear,” Gore said.

“They are going back to the ugliest page in the Republican playbook: fear,” he said. “They’re not even really trying to convince you to vote for George Bush. Their only hope, they’ve decided, is to try and make you too afraid to vote for John Kerry. It’s the lowest sort of politics imaginable. It is not worthy of a presidential candidate.”

This from a man who, in 1996, bellowed at the nation that if the Evil Republicans retained Congress, that they would poison the air and water, starve schoolchildren, and force old folks to eat kibbles and bits, before throwing them out of their homes. This from a man whose party ran radio ads in St. Louis claiming that “more black churches would burn” in the event of a Republican victory.

This only elicits one more sigh of relief that he didn’t win in 2000.

“The World Wants Kerry.”

For president. That’s what the Beeb says.

It sounds like he’s running for the wrong office. He should be gunning for Kofi’s job. It’s certainly one to which he’s more temperamentally suited.