C B S - Crummy Broadcasting System

Dan Blather

The other night on CBS's "60 Minutes 2" Dan Rather presented a segment on Bush's National Guard service & focused on a purported memo written by his Commander which could prove damning or at least embarrassing to Bush. The next day, thanks to the power of the blogosphere & its investigations, that memo was discredited as a fake.

Since that initial discrediting, countless experts on the subject have come out & also denounced the memo as a fake. Even the liberal Washington Post & Los Angeles Times say the game is up for CBS.

However, CBS & Dan Blather, Rather I mean, have hunkered down & have defended the memo & insist it is a true copy of an original existing memo from Bush's Commander. The methodology of CBS is suspect when they 'checked' the authenticity of the memo. Suffice it to say that from what I've read, CBS either perpetrated a fraud on its viewers or were scammed. Either way, CBS should have the journalistic professionalism & ethics to find this out.

But they haven't & they won't - they are in the bunker mentality. What they had hoped would be a satisfactory bashing of Bush & a way to effect the election has turned on them. Rather(excuse the pun) than be honest & ethical & professional, they will prefer to ruin their reputation in broadcast journalism, & Dan Blather will fade into the sunset of his employment with a big dose of egg on his face & a tarnished image. They both deserve it. This is liberal media bias & arrogance at its worse.

Dan Blather made one statement to the effect that the longer it takes the White House to deny the statements in the memo(regardless whether it is a fraud), the more truthful the memo appears to be. Rather is an idiot. This is a journalist?! It cuts both ways - I can type a memo that says Dan Rather dresses up like a 42nd St. hooker in his home. Gee - the longer it takes for good old Dan to deny it, the more truthful my memo appears to be. What a jerk. Boycott CBS - the Crummy Broadcasting System. Read more at this leading blog and more at this leader.