This is so last century. They imagine that CBS News has a sufficiently large store of credibility with the public that they can make a lie come true by simply insisting that it is so. I don't think they can. I think the blogosphere will eat their lunch. CBS News will be destroyed, by a force that CBS still holds in contempt. CBS hasn't a clue what it is up against. Dan Rather probably imagines himself to be one-third (along with Tom and Peter) of the anointed "deciders of truth" in these United States. He probably figures that's good enough to blow his way through this. But he is no such thing. He is one third of an aging, decrepit, and quite spent force. If he didn't 'get it' after a cable news channel beat him in the ratings during the RNC convention, then he isn't going to get it now. So he is going to go out there and put all his chips on these obviously forged documents, imagining that he is going to win simply because he is Dan Rather and he says so. But he isn't going to win. He's going to lose all his chips. And CBS News is going to lose all theirs as well. They are going to come out of this disgraced. By deciding to defend these documents, Dan Rather has moved from being duped, to being a collaborator in the lie. He has openly sided with those who hoped to smear the President and fool the people with a poorly done, amateurish hoax. He is so screwed. And he doesn't even see it coming. I am going to love every minute of this. Captain Dan the News Man |
We are apparently going to be treated to a truly delicious dish. It appears that Dan Rather and CBS News are going to try to blow their way through this by insisting that their documents are genuine.