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To: Sully- who wrote (106)	9/10/2004 6:23:16 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 169

A Few Small Davids Filed under: Blogging Media Fontgate— 12:51 am A lot of people (Wizbang, Politburo, and many others) are now asking whodunit. Some cry DNC plot; others say lone disgruntled Pentagon employee. Still others on the left say it was an elaborate Karl Rove rope-a-dope maneuver. Who knows. All we know right now is, apparently no one at CBS bothered to study these documents any longer than it took to read them. They say they sat on them for six weeks and had them examined. The blogosphere (and AP) have produced typography experts with names and credentials; so far CBS has not. No matter who was behind it (which we’ll learn soon enough), one thing’s for sure: the Old Media has just discredited itself even further, guilty of the kind of sloppy work for which they criticize the blogosphere. Remember Dead Zone, with Christopher Walken? The scene near the end when he asks the old German guy, “If you had known at the time what Hitler was going to become, would you have killed him?” The media has asked itself a similar question regarding Bush, and their decision is to take him down (politically), whatever it takes. In their view, cutting corners with the truth is justified in order to stop what they see as a real threat to their ideology - in fact, it’s their duty to cut corners in such a situation. They really believe they have a moral obligation to unseat Bush and save the country. Rather is of course a lefty, and his coverage is biased, and he’s certainly done shoddy work here. No doubt they’ll have some kind of explanation tomorrow. But no matter who Rather let himself be duped by, today’s victory is this: a few small Davids tripped-up a huge Goliath. rightonred.net