For the life of me, after reading the full report I can't see how Thornburgh could say there was no political bias at all even if there was some sort of a mechanical breakdown in attempting to get the news out fast....if CBS was as "quick" and therefore suffered a similar "breakdown" in attempting to discover why Kerry refused to have his military records out in public I guess I would be able to stomach that finding a bit better....

Jesus Bill, when will the tooting of your own horn end regarding Dan Rather? It's getting boring. This is an issue that both sides can agree on. Liberals and conservatives agree that Rather was caught with his pants down. The only people that have been making excuses for this debacle are the folks at CBS, and they are just trying to keep their jobs. Is this your 15 minutes of fame or what?

How about this for a new and refreshing topic -- Armstrong Williams.

OK, LETS GET OFF OF RATHER FOR A MINUTE....FROM A POST ON RATHERGATE.COM:

On the September 14 CBS Evening News, the transcript [PDF] contains the following:

John Roberts: The President has yet to weigh in on new documents about his National Guard record made public last week by 60 Minutes. But in a radio interview, First Lady Laura Bush became the first White House insider to publicly doubt their authenticity.

Laura Bush: You know they probably are altered and they probably are forgeries.

John Roberts: However, Laura Bush offered no evidence to back up her claim and CBS News continues to stand by its reporting.

Although the reporting is factual, it did tend to make the First Lady’s claims seem unsupported, when it was in fact CBS News’ claims that didn’t have sufficient support. I think a short, simple apology is in order.

It's about time that Roberts gets a spanking as well......

Left of Center/Anon Scientist:

How about this for a new and refreshing topic -- Armstrong Williams.

In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been posting all that much, thus I probably haven't felt the urge to comment on Armstrong Williams, or much else. I didn't even post on the tsunami.

Now I know that you like to break things down into a left-right thing, and you take extra pleasure in the fact that Williams is a rightie embroiled in a media scandal, but your inevitably wishful paradigm doesn't hold up. Rightie commentators from Michelle Malkin to half the National Review to Instapundit have commented on Williams, decrying it in strong terms. When Rathergate broke, 90% of the leftie talking heads and pundits defended the documents. So no, it wasn't "something we can all agree on," especially since the report fails to admit CBS has an ideological bias.

As for this:

Jesus Bill, when will the tooting of your own horn end regarding Dan Rather? It's getting boring.
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Is this your 15 minutes of fame or what?

I wasn't aware that I was tooting my own horn anywhere in these posts. My 15 minutes of fame was up a long time ago.

You want to get personal?

Why don't you launch another tearful tirade about how George Bush ended your marriage and made you poor. That had to be one of my favorite "cliched unhinged liberal" comments of all time. Here's a hint: the reason you've failed in life is YOU, not a political system. And the intellectual and emotional deficits that spur the failure to analyze your personal life with any honesty or self-awareness seeps into your maudlin, peurile political commentary. Which is getting boring.

Funny. Dammit Bill, I just spit up my coffee all over my keyboard. Methinks "lefty" is a little upset and maybe he should smoke a joint and get a lap dance to calm "hisself".....I'm sure CBS would rather be covering the southeast asian tsunami rather than being covered by the blogger tsunami at this point.

She has been with CBS how long? Jeeze. It just amazes me that CBS's "new" image is going to be determined in part by someone that is so old her crabs have to carry canteens.