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"I was incredulous that the mainstream press -- a group I'd been a part of for nearly twenty-five years and thought I knew -- was falling for the blogs' critiques. I was shocked at the ferocity of the attack. I was terrified at CBS's lack of preparedness in defending us. I was furious at the unrelenting attacks on Dan. And I was helpless to do anything about any of it."

Oh please! You had the entire CBS news apparatus behind you and Dan. All you needed were some reasonable explanations -- which of course you didn't have.

The truth is you weren't attacked at all. Some of the MSM reported a tiny fraction of the other side and it seemed like an all out attack. Dan Rather needed to grow some but he couldn't and didn't.