Following the logic that the cynics are still optimists when it comes to the real world, I would like to propose the following hypothesis:

CBS was set up. Karl Rove has one of his minions provide a fake document to CBS that contains information that is beyond question. In fact it fits into the picture that we have been able to put together of Bush's service very well. However, the document itself has been forged. The minions may not know it (the same way that some suicide bombers did not know that they were carrying an explosive), but Karl or whoever orchestrated this stinker knew that they were setting CBS up. It is genius really, and nothing that you couldn't pick up from Dickens or Victor Hugo.

Now as the result of this, CBS, which has been the most anti-Bush news organization out there, has been to a larger extent discredited. In fact, EVERYTHING that CBS puts out there that is critical of Bush shall be dismissed with the usual 'consider the source' reply. Sad really. Keep watching.