[JanetteS]

Probably the worst moment in his career, because it was arguably the one most obvious in showing bias and a political agenda, was the time Dan tried to beat up George H.W. Bush live, on the "CBS Evening News," over Iran-contra. Mr. Bush decked him instead, and with a question that reverberates: How would you like your whole career to be judged by one mistake? I do not doubt that CBS News that night thought it was going to take down a vice president, and wanted to. And was embittered by its failure. Which may have contributed to the years long, Ahab-like quest of producer Mary Mapes to bring down George W. Bush with documents it took bloggers less than 24 hours to reveal as fabrications.

I love Peggy Noonan's writing. The entire column seems to be composed as if to delicately deliver this knockout punch of a paragraph.

[Richard Kimball]

I thought it was a brilliant article. Peggy Noonan actually moved me to a grudging respect for some of Rather's work. It's funny that Mary Mapes desperately wanted to destroy Bush, but ended up destroying Rather.

[STARWISE]

and so elegantly put . .. she's SO gifted.