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Well it's about time!

I'm crossing my fingers and hope they can do it without inserting any ifs ands or buts.

--Rick Taylor

In other words, "Bye bye, Mary Mapes. Use Dan Rather as a reference at your peril."

Wooooooahhhh Nelly.

The beauty of this will be in the shading, the {whatever the italian word is for charcoal drawings, chiascurro or some such ... it's early} of it all.

CBS *was* mislead by partisans. Hence, all that Rather has to say is something like:

"CBS News has discovered that the information which raised well known concerns over George Bush's lack of committment to his National Guard duty and his failure to maintain his flying status in a time of war is accurate, but was not written by Col. Killian. Instead, these well known, unanswered questions appear to be the work of partisans.

CBS News reported the story after first consulting with the White House. CBS's error was in assuming that the White House would be familiar with the materials regarding the long-standing, yet unanswered issues, of George W. Bush's questionable military service, and that the White House would be able to comment on the authenticity of the documents central to our report.

CBS regrets the error.

Linky no worky.

The ratherbiased.com linky, that is.

I'll believe it when I see it... and if it's shown on CBS, I still may not believe it.

RatherGate - Nobody Dies, Nobody Goes to Jail!
Everybody gets home free!!! Slightly ruffled, a bit tarnished, but it will play as, "Boy, are we embarrassed!"

Mr. Burkett, after talking with Cleland, gang-emailed a bunch of folks in a Yahoo group for democrats. Mysteriously, Mr. Burkett later received some documents via US Postal Service. No note, no return address. Based on what Mr. Burkett believed, and wanted to believe, the docs looked real enough!

He faxed them to CBS. Mapes called back and Burkett assures her they're real, just like the ones he saw in a trash can. Somebody must have salvaged some of Killian's paperwork and sent it to him.

So they go to press.

Rather comes on tonight and says, "Folks, we're sure embarrassed! Somebody sent Mr. Burkett real-enough-looking documents, and he sent them to us. We had experts tell us they were real and we went to press believing they were real. They now appear not to be real. We're sorry and we've taken steps to improve our verification processes. Even though we aspire to the highest standards of journalism, we're not perfect, we sometimes make mistakes. I assure you there was no intent to report any falsehoods. - Courage!"

- The Pajama Press

"Officials say they are now beginning to believe the report was too flawed to have gone on the air." Geez those guys have thick skulls if they are just now starting to doubt the authenticity of the reports.

September 20, 2004, 10:16 a.m.
This Just In...
(Transcript of tonight’s CBS Evening News broadcast.)

Dave Konig http://www.nationalreview.com/dkonig/konig200409201016.asp has apparently gotten a copy of tonight’s CBS mea culpa transcript. Editing needed.
Dan Rather reporting for the CBS Evening News. After further investigation, we here at CBS News now have grave doubts about the authenticity of the Bush National Guard memos.

In other news, the Beatles have broken up…

Trouble in the Falkland Islands…..

CBS News can now confirm that the Earth revolves around the sun…

In the world of sports, the question remains: Did Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose consort with gamblers?

A CBS News investigation has concluded that peanut butter, when spread on a slice of bread — whether white or whole wheat — and then placed on top of, or in close proximity to, another slice of bread covered in jelly or jam, makes a tasty snack that CBS News is calling "a peanut butter and jelly sandwich".

CBS News is shocked and saddened today to report the untimely passing of comedian Bob Hope.

From our science desk, test results indicate that Soylent Green might actually consist of people.

Coca Cola announced today a refreshing new twist on an old favorite.