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Somewhere in heaven, my father is smiling. Until he died 5 years ago, he said exactly what Podhoretz said in this article.

Vindication is sweet, Dad. These two paragraphs were written for you and millions of other who knew the truth:

That's why, even though the precipitating event was a genuine outrage--CBS News's breathless use of forged documents accusing George W. Bush of disobeying a direct order from his National Guard superior in an all-too-obvious effort to sway the opinions of voters only 48 days before the 2004 election--the outrage has been accompanied by a spirit of giddiness and exhilaration almost from the moment the onslaught began.

This is a moment that's been a very long time coming. For four decades now, conservatives have been convinced, with supreme justification, that the institutional, ideological, and cultural biases of the mainstream media represented a danger to the causes in which they believe and the ideas they hold dear. What has happened over the past weeks isn't the beginning of a transformation. It's the culmination of a 40-year-long indictment that has, at long last, led to a slam-dunk conviction.

For 40 years (I'd say 60), CBS has thought itself untouchable. They're not untouchable any more, which is nice, but they also need to be held accountable, not just for RatherGate, but for decades of unconscionable manipulation of the news.

an all-too-obvious effort to sway the opinions of voters only 48 days before the 2004 election--the outrage has been accompanied by a spirit of giddiness and exhilaration almost from the moment the onslaught began

giddiness and exhilaration at being able to make up events to suit their mission of taking property that doesn't belong to them