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 Weekly Standard's Jonathan Last has an excellent piece on the tick-tock of the disintegration of CBS's forgeries. The Washington Post also has some great reporting. First, is this graphic comparing the CBS forgeries to known/valid National Guard documents. The Post's CBS team also has this article on Dan Rather's "rush to judgment" that describes […]
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Dan Rather has some more stories cooking -- all using fully authenticated documents. The JFK assassination: Rather reveals startling evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald met with CIA agents two days before shooting President Kennedy in Dallas. "It's all here on Oswald's Palm Pilot," Rather says. Bwahahahaha.
CBS News' experts claim that proportional spacing and superscript were available on typewriters in the early '70s. Let us ignore for a moment that Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's secretary has said that the documents are forged and that the two typewriters she used when she worked at the Texas Air National Guard were an Olympia […]
Dan Rather was interviewed by The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz and had the following to say: "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," Rather said in an interview last night. "Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this […]
I complain and bang the steering wheel when I'm stuck in traffic because of an auto accident made worse by everyone and their brother slowing to stare at the twisted wreckage. The same thing has happened to CBS News' credibility, yet I continue to gawk and feel no remorse. Late yesterday, CBS News released this […]
Today's New York Times has an editorial decrying the lack of promised democracy in Hong Kong. Despite the shady campaign tactics and problems at voting sites, we hope that there was a lesson for Beijing in the results and that Sunday's vote was not a complete loss for the forces of openness. Democracy advocates increased […]
ABC News and The Washington Post have pieces on CBS News' decision to ignore some of the document experts they hired who cautioned them against using the fraudulent memos. The New York Times in typical fashion, reports that Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's secretary, Marian Carr Knox -- who would've typed the documents -- says the […]
According to CNN founder Reese Schoenfeld, CBS News managing editor Dan Rather is an empty-headed automaton -- and that's a compliment. On Tuesday night's "Hannity and Colmes" on Fox News, Schoenfeld had the following to say when the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell suggested that Rather should step down until a complete investigation of the […]
Hoystory will not refer to this scandal as others have -- by using CBS newsman Dan Rather's surname and appending "-gate" -- because the construction is contrived, overdone and annoying. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, the only people left who believe these documents are genuine are the Kool Aid drinkers on […]