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CBS has committed five years of effort and resources by senior producer (Mary Mapes) and her staff, to digging through 30 year old service records of George W. Bush in search of any evidence that would help them remove him from the oval office

This five year investigation has always struck me as the strangest part of the story. It means, of course, that they were investigating Bush on a minor issue before he became president. For a media that repeatedly let Clinton slide because his transgressions were always "old news" it is a remarkable change of face.

That CBS has been so tenacious about this story tells me that there's much more to CBS's motives than has been reported so far.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Five years is a stupid pull-over that the MSM is repeating... Without thought, as you pointed out.

It means that they've been mining, digging, and picking at this scab for five years. Not because the public cares, but because THEY (each different crew in the MSM is determined to pull the next Watergate ...

And, like Dan Rather, didn't realize that they were flushing the toilet that tehy (and their liberal intelligentsia brethren) chose to swim in.