MEGAN MCARDLE: “Yes, Virginia, they’re fake:”

The chances that you could produce, by accident, a typewritten document that looks exactly like what comes out of your laser printer when you write the same thing in Microsoft Word, is a hell of a lot smaller than the chance that the earth will be destroyed by an asteroid: i.e. too small to worry about.

What flabbergasts me is how Dan Rather could have been taken in. He’s old. He knows what typewritten things look like. These documents don’t look like that. It also makes me wonder if 60 minutes is staffing its newsroom with twelve-year-old Pakistani children in order to save money on labour. How else could not one person say “y’know, this looks an awful lot like the stuff I type on my computer.”

Indeed. (Note: Since she blogged this from an Internet cafe in Ireland London, she presumably wasn’t pajama-blogging.)