Beldar blog - Either in logic or in law, the burden is squarely on CBS News to respond to those arguments — and to do so immediately. So far, there's no credible suggestion that CBS News has been actively complicit in forgery, as opposed to unwitting (and witless) dupes who've passed on forged documents given to CBS News by others who, at present, remain unidentified. But with every minute that passes without a substantive response by CBS News, their involvement in the fraud grows — and yes, at some point in the very near future, they will become co-conspirators in any fraud by virtue of their deliberate cover-up.
I speak in an ethical, logical, moral, and practical sense in terming CBS News and Dan Rather as potential "co-conspirators," not a legal one. But their obligation is nevertheless clear and indisputable. This problem cannot be ignored, nor postponed. And let me be clear: I'm not insisting that CBS News concede that the documents are forged. But I'm insisting — and the rest of the mainstream media, and indeed all of America, should insist — that CBS respond to these objections in detail, now. |
