KILLIAN FINALE?….Last Friday I said that I was skeptical that the Killian memos were genuine, and boy did I hear from y’all about that. My inbox is still creaking under the weight of charges of liberal disloyalty.
I haven’t said much about it since then because I haven’t seen anything to change my mind, but I think it’s worth linking to the final nail in the coffin:
Marian Carr Knox, who worked from 1957 to 1979 at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, said she prided herself on meticulous typing, and the memos first disclosed by CBS News last week were not her work.
?These are not real,? she told The Dallas Morning News after examining copies of the disputed memos for the first time. ?They?re not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him.?
….She said the typeface on the documents did not match either of the two typewriters that she used during her time at the Guard. She identified those machines as a mechanical Olympia, which was replaced by an IBM Selectric in the early 1970s.
….Mrs. Knox said she did all of Lt. Col. Killian?s typing, including memos for a personal ?cover his back? file he kept in a locked drawer of his desk.
Knox is a loyal Bush-hater, so she’s certainly got no reason to lie about this.
I think it’s time for everyone to give up on this. The memos are almost certainly fakes, they’re sucking up media bandwidth that could be better used elsewhere, and Dan Rather is toast. Besides, there was really nothing in them that told us anything new.
Time to move on.
