I just watched this evening's CBS News mea culpa and must say I am solidly unimpressed. The Mudville Gazette (temporary home to RatherBiased.com updates) has a transcript of the CBS Evening News piece here. A few things jump out at me as a viewer and an editor. First, the past week and a half of […]
I've occasionally been critical of FactCheck.org's "nonpartisan" analyses of certain campaign ads, but with today's CBS News admission of wrongdoing, FactCheck.org gets it exactly right. We at FactCheck.org are now satisfied that the memos were indeed faked, and so they can tell us nothing one way or another about Bush's Guard service. [emphasis added] Fraudulent […]
White House spokesman Scott McClellan is answering reporters questions with regard to the forged memos story and I was struck by an exchange with one unidentifiable reporter (the camera has a shot of McClellan and not the reporters asking the questions). Reporter: Scott, do you believe that the Kerry campaign had anything to do with […]
CBS has released a statement from Dan Rather regarding the forged memos -- via Drudge: STATEMENT FROM DAN RATHER: Last week, amid increasing questions about the authenticity of documents used in support of a 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents […]
Both The Washington Post and The New York Times are reporting that CBS News will finally admit today that it was "misled" on the forged documents its been peddling for the past couple of weeks. From the Post: CBS News plans to issue a statement, perhaps as early as today, acknowledging that it was misled […]