On the same day they report that CBS News is going to admit pushing fake documents in an attempt to influence the election, the New York Times does their best to prop up the CBS line that the documents reveal “essential truths,” even though they’re as phony as three dollar bills: Portrait of George Bush in ’72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time. (Hat tip: Right Brain.)

We’re seeing the media juggernaut go off the rails; I suspect this entire push to discredit George Bush in the final days before the election was coordinated, and there was so much stuff prepared and ready to go that they simply couldn’t stop it all. So now the media phrase of the day is “fake but accurate.”

UPDATE at 9/20/04 7:34:00 am:

‘Fake, But Accurate’ may catch on as the creed for a new pseudo-lifestyle.