I would prefer to read a headline "First Forger Arrested in CBS Memogate", but I'll take what I can get.

How many affiliates need to call for Rather to be suspended before it happens? (I'll guess that it would have to be at least 10, and all 10 from the major markets).

Well this is at least a start. I wish she would have also called for televising the panel's investigation. What's good for the goose .....

60 Minutes could investigate a conspiracy to use fraud and forgery to sway a Presidential election in time of war. Now that would be news.

Don't worry, Flea... I'm sure Dan Rather is busy trying to "break" that story as we speak.

OT, but:

Bad news for Kerry in the new Rasmussen, the first one with post-debate interviews.

They report Friday's interviews were similar to those of the previous 2days.

And that while Kerry convinced 3% of those polled to change their minds and vote for him, Bush convinced 2% to go his way!

Another dead cat bounce for the K-ster?

YES!!!

I find this impressive. I grew up in Charlotte from 1970, left in 1991 and go back from time to time. WBTV has an excellent reputation as a news operation, unlike WSOC, which dove into the silly news that dominates the airwaves.

On the other hand, Rather's fellow sprayheads Brokaw and Jennings are finally, finally, deciding to stand behind Dan.

But on the other hand, there's this: HOUSTON (AP) -- Dan Rather’s daily CBS radio broadcast is off the air where he grew up. Houston CBS radio affiliate KPRC hasn’t been running it for the last couple weeks in reaction to his “60 Minutes” report questioning President Bush’s National Guard service.

Let me add - looking at my copy of the paper - this made the front page - A1 - one of five top headlines. It features a call out quote and a photo of the GM, Ms. McMillan.

When the issue first surface, the Observer was also one of the first MSM papers to cover the possiblity of forged docs, also a front page article.

If anyone is interested, I can snap a digital of the front page for illustration.

Mary MacMillan -- a name to remember. We'll look for her to make a real difference in the MSM. Go Mary!

The economic pain that caused WBTV to take such a dramatic, headline-making step must have been intense. We don't see it all, but it's an iceberg-like 9/10 below the surface.

Back when the Dixie Chicks, um, dixiechicked themselves they and their surrogates blustered for a time but eventually the Chicks were forced to announce they were switching their main effort right out of country music. We heard about radio stations doing one-time protests like putting trash cans out front where people to toss their Chicks CD's, and also about other impacts that didn’t seem to reach the vitals, but there must have been more going on to make the suits behind the Chicks pull the plug on one of the industry's most successful franchises. So it may be here.

The BigBiz types who have their money and careers wrapped up in CBS know the full extent of how the impact on CBS's interests is trending, and they've got to be worried about what might happen once the Texas cops start their inquiry. They won’t want Chinese water torture dripping endlessly into the news. We may have to wait a bit, but sometime soon we'll hear the cartwheels on the cobblestone streets.

Just a tiny nit to pick.

The documents are not forgeries, they’re fake. Forgery implies that somewhere there are real documents from which forgeries were created. These are fake documents and were totally and completely made up based false accusations.

Congrats - we are now a jihad !!

"Brokaw blasted what he called an attempt to "demonize" CBS and Rather on the Internet, where complaints about the report first surfaced. He said the criticism "goes well beyond any factual information."

"What I think is highly inappropriate is what going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad ... that is quite outrageous," the NBC anchor said at a panel on which all three men spoke."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041003/ap_on_en_tv/rather_anchors

The MSM is digging a bigger hole everyday.

Question? Is Lawrence Altman of THE New York Times trying to Dan Rather us?
With his story of the shrapnel in John Kerry’s leg. A wound never spoken of before?

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