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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 […]

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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 […]

think again. Reuters reports that it takes a long time to get treatment in Canada. Canada often boasts its universal health care program shows it is more caring than the United States, but the system is creaking alarmingly, with long wait lists for treatment, and shortages of cash and doctors. ... As the politicians bicker, […]

It's gone. The thing was useless anyway -- based on not what particular guns could do, but instead what they looked like. MoveOn PAC's latest ad is, according to the sometimes nonpartisan FactCheck.org "about as misleading as it can be." Through words, graphics and sound effects, it invites viewers to think that the expiration of […]

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 […]

When I saw this in the Sunday paper, my blood began to boil. Sen. John F. Kerry vowed Saturday to "fight tooth and nail" to ensure every African American vote was counted in the November election, saying Democrats would not "stand by and allow acts of voter suppression." The Democratic presidential nominee stepped up criticism […]