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Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather slammed the Trump administration on Tuesday evening for its association with former national security adviser Mike Flynn, claiming "this Russia scandal" might end up being as "big as Watergate." As Rather wrote in a Facebook post ... Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now. It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis, until maybe now. On a 10 scale of armageddon for our form of government, I would put Watergate at a 9. This Russia scandal is currently somewhere around a 5 or 6, in my...

THE CBS REPORT issued last week by Richard Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi left a number of interesting questions unanswered. The Internet in general and the blogosphere in particular are a means of harnessing open-source information. So we'd like to invite the blogosphere to help answer some of the questions Thornburgh and Boccardi left dangling. (1) Who is Michael Smith? The report identifies him only as a "journalist" in Texas. The panel does not appear to have spoken with Smith and tells us nothing of his previous work. Does he or did he work for a mainstream newspaper? A local television...

The editors of the Weekly Standard have issued a call to the blogosphere for help in tying up a few of Rathergate's many dangling threads: "Fishing expedition." Here they are: (1) Who is Michael Smith? The report identifies him only as a "journalist" in Texas. The panel does not appear to have spoken with Smith and tells us nothing of his previous work. Does he or did he work for a mainstream newspaper? A local television station? Does he write for a website or run a blog? Has he been involved in politics? As the man who led Mary Mapes...

Hoo-boy. It's a hot time in the old blogtown. The pajamahadeen are firing their virtual bullets into the cyber-air in celebration of CBS anchor Dan Rather's announcement on Tuesday that he was retiring as the top talking face of the network after 24 years. "This has been a simply outstanding month," crowed a poster on http://www.freerepublic.com. "Bush won, Arafat died, we're kicking ass in Fallujah, and now this!" Typically, the above-quoted "Freeper" didn't get that Rather may be down, but he certainly isn't out. When he steps down as front man for The CBS Evening News on March 9, he...

The CBS News assault on Vice President George Bush led by Dan Rather and aired on the CBS Evening News on January 25 was planned, scripted and rehearsed like a secret military operation. CBS worked on it for over a month according to Rather himself. We don't know if it had a code name, but "Bush whacker" would be fitting, since the purpose of the operation was clearly to deliver a damaging blow to the Bush campaign for the Republican presidential nomination "as close to the actual Iowa) caucus date as possible," to quote from a letter CBS News sent...

FIRST-PERSON: Bernard Goldberg is vindicated Sep 10, 2004 By Kelly Boggs McMINNVILLE, Ore. (BP)--If Bernard Goldberg’s 2002 book “Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News” did not convince the public at-large that television news leans decidedly left, perhaps the recent decision by CBS to report on suspect documents will. In “Bias,” Goldberg makes the case that network news in America has become dominated by ideologues who champion a political agenda -- a decidedly liberal agenda. Even though he was a 30-year veteran at CBS, Goldberg’s views have been dismissed by many as one man’s opinion. CBS’s...