Just read about this story on Huffingtonpost.com. All I have to say is, "Wow...Good luck, Dan."
When all the hoopla began over the CBS story concerning President Bush's "service" (ahem) here in the US in the National Guard during Vietnam, our country was still in that terrible place where the media was cow-towing to Bush. Hence, Rather was pretty much pushed out the door by CBS.
I'm glad to see he's suing the network and I hope he wins. True...Dan's team may have jumped the gun on the story, and they should have been more vigilant about research. But the story itself was important. And the fact that CBS was so easily swayed by the Bushies in the White House speaks to the influence his administration has claimed over the media.
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I have little doubt that the "essential truth" of the National Guard was 100% on target. I recall being in a reserve unit in the early 1980's, and the slipshod recordkeeping and such was stunning.
I imagine in a "champagne unit" like Bush was in---which existed primnarily to "sleaze" the sons of political big shots out of going to Vietnam--there were all sorts of shenanigans going on in terms of recordkeeping, "documents disappearing or being mislaid," etc.
Not to mention...the supposed "impossible fonts and typefaces" that supposedly undermined the documents in question, were MORE than available at the time......
Welcome back to the blog, Graham!
Graham, I am disappointed. Where is the Emmy wrap up?!
So the story was right but wrong; inaccurate but correct; a lie but true... okay, got it :-)
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