Limbaugh on the Downing Street Memos

You just knew this would be the conservative defense to the Downing Street memos. Rush Limbaugh says

And the reason it didn't interest me is because it was just another one of these ginned up things by the libs, and it looks like it's got some similarities to Bill Burkett and the forged documents of CBS and Rathergate.

I've been wondering why the mainstream media have not been covering these memos too much. This is part of the reason: the media honchos were afraid of getting into another Rathergate mess. USA Today wrote

USA TODAY chose not to publish anything about the memo before today for several reasons, says Jim Cox, the newspaper's senior assignment editor for foreign news. "We could not obtain the memo or a copy of it from a reliable source," Cox says. "There was no explicit confirmation of its authenticity from (Blair's office). And it was disclosed four days before the British elections, raising concerns about the timing."

But the Bushies are going to throw that out there to deceive people anyway. The media might as well have just done their jobs.