[monocle]

I think that virtually all the analyses of the Rather fiasco are at best poorly performed charades. Journalists or journalist professors have their careers at stake and will not utter a single word that would derogate one of the card carying members lest it would reflect on their entire profession and endanger their livelihoods and the pedestals upon which they have placed themselves.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You have that right!

Sam Donaldson practically hyperventilates when the sanctity of journalism is attacked from without or from within.

It would diminish him!