CBS' liberal bias has shown right through on this one. Rather should definitely be sacked, as should most of the editors and factcheckers on this story.
From Best of the web today.
BY JAMES TARANTO
Monday, September 13, 2004 2:33 p.m. EDT
Dan Rather Goes Monkeyfishing
As everyone knows by now, last week "60 Minutes" aired a "report" by "newsman" Dan Rather that "revealed" something damaging about President Bush's early 1970s service in the Texas Air National Guard. Exactly what, we do not know; as we noted Thursday, we find the topic too boring to think about.
But it turns out there is a fascinating story here, a story of journalistic fraud, of bloggers humbling ye olde media, and, very likely, of political dirty tricks. Shortly after Rather's story aired, blogger John Hinderaker wrote a post on PowerLineBlog.com in which he noted that the four memos that were central to Rather's story appeared to have been produced on modern word-processing equipment, not 1970s-vintage typewriters. (The memos' putative author has been dead for 20 years, conveniently for Rather.)
Taranto, needless to say, smacks them where it hurts: in the credibility crotch. Good work. And to think that CBS was so sloppy only to come out the next day saying "No investigation is needed. Everything is a-okay".
It was definitely not a-okay and whoever is running the show needs to get their, ah, head checked:
The hood you threw up with,
[anchors] you grew up with
Don't even respect your ass (Dan Rather)
That's why it's time for the doctor
to check your ass
--Dr. Dre.
---PS: that's not an exact quote.
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