I know it seems antithetical to the very idea of having a network anchorman, but CBS News' Dan Rather would be better off remaining silent -- or at least seeking permission before he voices an original thought. Yesterday's Chicago Tribune reported that Rather still thinks the Bill Burkett-supplied documents are genuine -- even after Monday […]
Yesterday was my first day back at my paying job after two blissful weeks off. Shortly after I arrive, an editor comes up with a Dilbertesque phrase: "negative praise."
I didn't catch President Bush's speech to the United Nations, but I just heard mention made of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's remarks just prior to Bush's speech. According to the report, Annan singled out Uganda, Sudan and Israel for being repeated violators of international law. Let's set aside Uganda and just focus on Sudan […]
I'm watching it right now, and Shakespeare comes to mind, specifically Macbeth: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I can't wait to see a transcript of this, because listening to Kerry actually speak could be used as an anesthetic in hospitals for major surgery. *UPDATE* OK, […]
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 […]
The nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys was behind an effort to undermine the case for war against Iraq by planting false documents. The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for […]