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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: American Spirit who wrote (24814)4/5/2008 12:39:11 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 224718
 
Even MSNBC calls the story discredited:

Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and his former bosses Wednesday, claiming they made him a “scapegoat” for a discredited story about President Bush’s military service during the Vietnam War.

msnbc.msn.com

This is what Rather has said about the story:

I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where-if I knew then what I know now-I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.

cbsnews.com

Search for: Rather CBS discredited and you'll get a host of things like this:

After the report was discredited, Rather was forced to step down as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in March 2005. ...
www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/09/20/2007-09-20_dan_rather_files_70m_lawsuit_against_cbs.html
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