The latest excuse/theory/fever dream being floated by various DNC operatives is that the CBS Killian memos may have been planted by Republicans, trying to discredit CBS News and/or the Kerry campaign.

But really. Think about it. You’re the evil Karl Rove, nefarious mastermind behind the Bushitler hegemony. You’ve hatched a diabolical plan to plant forged documents with CBS News and/or the Kerry campaign, to make them look bad when the forgeries are discovered.

Would you, Karl (or one of your diabolical underlings), simply open Microsoft Word and begin typing with the default settings? Print it, crumple it and smooth it out, and fax it to yourself twice, and think that was good enough?

Or would you spend a few dollars at the local thrift store, buy an old typewriter, and type your fake document with it, so that your intended patsy wouldn’t immediately realize what you were up to?

You’d think the evil Karl Rove would have spent a few dollars and a couple of hours to make sure that an especially observant drone at CBS News didn’t immediately recognize documents created with a modern word processor.

How could the evil Karl Rove (or one of his diabolical underlings) have known that CBS News really was that stupid?