Bluemerle

Though Captain Ed takes a bite out of the chocolate doorknobs of Jeff Goldstein,
( Burkett is, after all, unreliable) I think Burkett got it right this time. (update: Burkett might have gotten it right, but the reporters didn't*. Burkett says he was referring to CBS asking him to hand over the documents, not Lockhart, and the Fort worth Star Telegram has retracted their reporting of that comment.)

Burkett was speaking before he became aware of Lockhart's version, if I understand the timeline correctly, and it simply makes sense that Lockhardt was interested in CBS getting those memos...the memos that were the only reason CBS had anything to do with Burkett.

I still suspect Burkett is the forger, or a collaborator to forgery, mainly because of language in the memos and his over-elaborate pre-emptive ass-covering explanation of how he got and handled the documents.

The idea of Barnes cooking something up to make himself rich, however, is intriguing.

*UPDATE: via NRO's Kerryspot, the Fort Worth Star Telegram issued a retraction of their reporting that Burkett said Lockhart asked him to provide documents:

This article has been corrected from the version published in the newspaper and online Friday morning to reflect that Bill Burkett was referring to conversations with CBS when he said, "They tried to convince me as to why I should give them the documents." The earlier version incorrectly reported that he had discussed the documents with Joe Lockhart of the Kerry campaign.

UPDATE: Woo!!! A link from Mr. Goldstein!
Yay, and thanks.

Hello to anyone curious enough to make it over here!

Guess what, I'm having a contest!
Tim Blair seems to have welshed on his promise to send me some vegemite, despite evidence of having stopped in my own home town on his way to New York. At any rate is has been taking its time getting here. I became impatient enought that I went and bought some of my own. Since then I'm a little obsessed with it, and eat in on everything day and night. (I even tried it on chocolate, which was a mistake.)

If the heavy-lifty bloggers ever do manage to get Dan Rather stuffed and mounted on a plaque in the Bates Motel -- that is, Dan is forced to report the *forgery* and or is fired for his misdeeds, and you are first to send me proof in the news, I will share the vegemite joy and send to you a lovely Kerfuffle (tm) bag with three jars of non-perishable vegemite for the end-times.
And I really will.