Beldar's comment on the WaPo article.
"Et tu, WaPo?" gasps Rather, as the MSM assassins thrust and thrust
Says Dan Rather of the current controversy:
Rather also dismissed the notion that CBS was negligent: "I'm confident we worked longer, dug deeper and worked harder than almost anybody in American journalism does."
That's precisely what we're all afraid of, Dan.
Sunday's front-page WaPo story by Howard Kurtz, Michael Dobbs, and James V. Grimaldi — headlined "In Rush to Air, CBS Quashed Memo Worries" — doesn't add any new blockbusters to what the LAT published on Saturday morning, but has more contextual details — none of which make CBS News look good.
The tone is definitive, and WaPo drops the polite fiction that there's even a remote possibility remaining that the documents are authentic. Instead, the bright lights are on the misbehavior of Mapes, Rather, and other CBS News personnel. More signs point to Burkett as the source.
Still unanswered, and even unasked: What was CBS News' great hurry? Who else was the forger peddling the documents to?
And what says USA Today? |
