[jdm]

Hewitt says he had questioned whether the reporting was biased at a CBS meeting convened to discuss the controversy that began to swell after the story aired. “Let me ask one question,” he recalls addressing the gathering. “If this had been John Kerry, wouldn’t you have been more careful about the story?”

If it had been John Kerry, the story wouldn't have ran.

That's all you need to know, really.

[libstripper]

If it had been John Kerry, the story wouldn't have ran.

Indeed, BS could have run a very solidly sourced story on the Swiftvets, a story that would have had to conclude they were right. CBS never touched such a story.

[syriacus]

By the time “Tricky Dan” Rather is through trying to resurrect his “legacy,” libs are going to think Rather is as much a pariah as they once thought “Tricky Dick” Nixon was.