[Congressman Billybob]

Dan Rather is not "going down with the ship." It's more specific than that. He's has scuttled the ship, and insisted that all the crew stay on board with him as it sinks. That's not courage; that's Jim Jones Kool-Aid insanity time.

Congressman Billybob

[NavySEAL F-16]

Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at upcoming meetings about this?

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess that after four years it's worth asking the question: Has President Bush succeeded in changing the tone in Washington?

-PJ

[CFC__VRWC]

Dan Rather is not "going down with the ship." It's more specific than that. He's has scuttled the ship, and insisted that all the crew stay on board with him as it sinks. That's not courage; that's Jim Jones Kool-Aid insanity time.

I think he's looking for someone to bail him out of this mess, and that someone is probably the New York Times. During the height of the Swifties' coverage, the Slimes turned its nose up at the story until they finally felt compelled to take some action. Then they threw out that great big "investigative report" laying out all the "nefarious ties" between the White House and the Swifties and pronounced everything the Swifties said to be a lie. The rest of the MSM then took up the "That settles that, the Swifties have been discredited, time to move on" theme.

I think Dan's begging Pinch to help him out of this jam by running, probably in the Sunday edition under a huge banner headline, the "definitive" story that proclaims the memos to be genuine, lays out the "nasty dealings" between the White House, the conservative 527s and the "partisan hacks" on the internet, and just generally, in the minds of CBS and the rest of the MSM, gives them all the cover they need to pronounce that we rabble have heard enough of this and that it's time to move on. The question is whether or not the Slimes feels it can help Dan out without tarnishing itself even more than it already is.

[The Electrician]

He's has scuttled the ship, and insisted that all the crew stay on board with him as it sinks.

I think that you've nailed it. Any claim to "objectivity" that CBS and 60 minutes ever may have had in the past has been pretty much blasted to smithereens by this farce.