CONCOCTED SCANDAL?
The Kerry scandal du jour sounds like a lot of hooey to me. "Fantastic stories?" Fled to Africa? Taking loose cannon Wes Clark's off-the-record predictions as confirmation? Maybe something real will turn up, but the whole business sounds absurd. Drudge's evidence is more like anti-evidence.
Update: JohnEllis agrees. Bash the press all you like, but U.S. reporters do have standards. They may not always succeed, but they want the stories they print to be not just interesting but true. The British by contrast...