Beating a dead hoax


Dan Rather would help his credibility if he just didn't talk about certain topics
I think Dan Rather might be just a little bit obsessed.

"What happened to us is, a lot of people … didn't like the fact that we reported the story of what President Bush's time in the National Guard was, and wasn't," he said. He called the CBS-commissioned review of the network's handling of the story as "an independent investigation headed by a good friend of President Bush, and a political ally of President Bush's." He was referring to Associated Press CEO Louis Boccardi and former U.S Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, who had served in the administrations of presidents Reagan and Bush Sr.

Martinez countered by reading from a 2005 cbsnews.com report on the panel's findings, which concluded that the story "was neither fair nor accurate and did not meet the organization's internal standards."

That's when the interview got tense.

"Well, obviously, you have a political agenda this morning," Rather said.

The documents were faked, and hundreds of document experts contacted CBS to tell them so.

A blogger made up a near duplicate of the documents with the standard settings on Microsoft Word.

Even assuming the content was 100% accurate with no distortions, there is no way to link the documents with the Texas Air National Guard. There is no chain of evidence.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - November 8, 2006 at 06:40 PM  Tag


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