I must confess that I'd abandoned watching "This Week" shortly after they changed the format and got rid of the roundtable segment. The only realy reason I tuned in most Sundays was to hear what George Will had to say. I don't know if the roundtable segment is back as a permanent feature, but they […]
A colleague of mine, Union-Tribune photographer Earnie Grafton wrote an essay for today's paper remembering Marine PFC Nachez Washalanta II. Grafton was embedded with the Marines as they invaded Iraq last year, and Washalanta was the driver of the light armored vehicle in which Grafton rode. Washalanta died last month when the Humvee he was […]
The New York Times' resident conservative, David Brooks, points out one of President Bush's "flip-flops." Bowing to calls from the Democrat Party and American "allies" around the world, in at least one instance the President has eschewed his unilateral foreign policy -- to the delight of liberal elites. Confronted with the murder of 50,000 in […]
The New York Times reports that the "60 Minutes" segment that was bumped two weeks ago to make way for the infamous forged documents piece is being held until after the election. The Times cites a Newsweek report that claims CBS producers now feel they cannot criticize President Bush prior to the election because of […]
At many jobs I've held both pre-journalism and now in the news business, that's one question that has occasionally come to mind as I've encountered people suffering from prodigious stupidity. Well, Fox News has dug up an incident that should've gotten the CBS News producer behind the forged documents story fired years ago. It is […]
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 […]
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 […]