I don’t know about you, but I’m loving the infighting going on at CBS. The insidous leftist bent has finally caught up with the old dinosaurs in real-time, and I’m enjoying every hour of it. 
Everybody’s trying to put the blame on somebody else. And Dan Rather had to be forced to admit the documents might be fakes, but he still hasn’t said this:
“It is true. I don’t like George Bush and I wanted to send him back to Texas. I knew the documents were questionable, but in my zeal, I resorted to dirty tricks. I’m so ashamed for presenting to the American public forged documents. I have no excuse. Although my career ended decades ago, I’m still trying to hold on to a remnant of the past: The domination of my beloved leftist media. We had a good run, didn’t we boys? Anyway…America, I humbly beg your forgiveness.”
You think? Let’s go to the story:
A war of words has erupted within the halls of “60 Minutes” following Dan Rather’s admission that CBS News aired a report on President Bush using questionable documents.On one side of the battle is Steve Kroft, a veteran correspondent on the Sunday edition of “60 Minutes.” On the other is Don Hewitt, founder of the pioneering newsmagazine.
Kroft argues it’s unlikely the Sunday show would have made the mistake of using the documents that bolstered Rather’s report – which aired on the Wednesday telecast, formerly known as “60 Minutes II.”
So much so, Kroft and staffers on the Sunday telecast want it to be clear — they weren’t the ones that were duped.
Too little, too late, Kroft. I don’t know about you, but I’m not letting the network wiggle off the hook that easily. If it hadn’t been Dan Rather, some other “journalist” at CBS would’ve picked it up. You can make book on that.
In another delightful story, we read:
Across the country, CBS affiliates continued to be bombarded with mail from viewers expressing their outrage over Dan Rather in particular and the journalistic debacle in general. Affiliate board is sure to take up the subject at its next meeting, set for Oct. 5.“Some people broke the cardinal rule and screwed us all,” one “60 Minutes” veteran said Tuesday.
I’ll concede. That local affiliates have to reap what Rather has sown is unfair, but Rather is getting what he deserves. Unfortunately, his colleagues have to suffer, the same way we’ve suffered his transparent liberal bias all these years. Such is life!
Throughout the day, CBS News prexy Andrew Heyward [who should be fired] and others worked to appoint members to an independent review panel that will dissect the circumstances leading to the decision to air documents pertaining to President Bush’s service in the Air National Guard….So far, no one at CBS News has been fired. Industryites don’t believe Rather will resign over the flap, but they concede the final chapter is far from written.
I don’t know about you, but I think bloggers have already written it.
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Allahpundit post a funny pic of Dan Rather. More on the independent panel at Wizbang.
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