Fabrications, not Forgeries

Much has been said about the CBS News investigation of "Rathergate," the biased 60 minutes report about a faked letter blasting the President's National Guard Service. Charles Krauthammer has a good column on this today. I just wish they would use words properly.

This letter is a fabrication, not a forgery. Forgery means making a copy of something genuine in order to deceive (see definition here). There is no genuine letter here, only a made-up creation designed to make people believe something existed.