Just how stupid is Dan Rather, anyway?
I guess it's been so long since they've been challenged, besides tiny, ignorable things in the letters to the editor column, that attacks on a story are interpreted as attacks on them, leading to more stupid statements on TV.
Remember, it's not the crime that gets you, it's the coverup.
6:30 CNN headline news mentioned that independent experts thought the documents were not genuine, but that was a tiny part of the blurb. If I was only watching CNN I could reasonably interpret this as a defensive move by Bush.