[Cincinatus' Wife]

Photo with article (looks like a mug shot)

Rather

[badgerlandjim]

ANAGRAM: Daniel Rather = Rat Headliner.

[Waco]

Scramay vous, dork. Little french ta-ta talk there.

[Mach9]

Curiouser and curiouser. Why does Burkett claim he's protecting a source he obviously didn't trust in the first place (Burkett: "And I insisted that they be authenticated").

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

I'd say I'm more giddy than gleeful. :)

[dead]

CBS will never fire him. To do so would be to admit that they've been housing an illegitimate partisan hack for somewhere in the neighborhood of forty years. He'll resign soon enough (within a year).

And, as Clinton's legacy will always be headlined by "Monica", Rather's legacy will always be headlined by "Memogate".

A fourty-year journalistic career neatly summed up as "a shamelessly gullible and biased mouthpiece" for all eternity (or like five years after his death, which is about as far back as history looks regarding journalists.)

[Mach9]

I'm thinking that this is a PURRRRRfect time for the Swifties to renew night-time news show hunting. They may not meet quite as much resistance. The old ladies of the MSM ought to be doing cartwheels to prove their open-mindedness.

[antaresequity]

"Critics Gleeful"...

Once again they underestimate us...Are we gleeful?...Of course not...

Now we will find out who forged these documents, and how far up the DNC apparatus they go...

Gleeful my ass...we are only getting started...

[Cultural Jihad]

One has to wonder how the story would have played out had the forgerer bothered to buy an old Selectric typewriter on eBay.

[Steven W.]

In this article Burkett claims the documents "were handed to him at the Houston Astrodome by an anonymous man."

[RJL]

Burkett, who originally claimed he got the documents from another National Guard official, now says they were handed to him at the Houston Astrodome by an anonymous man.

So CBS didn't verify these documents with the supposed other National Guard Official?

That leaves CBS and Dan Rather with Burkett and "an anonymous man" at the at the Houston Astrodome as the "unimpeachable" source.

Dan Rather and Mary Mapes should be fired immediately and CBS should have it's broadcast license suspended (CBS does own some affiliates) pending the outcome of a criminal investigation.

[searchandrecovery]

Instead of "Courage", Dan's new signoff line should be "Damn you, BuckHead".

[garylmoore]

Peter Jennings is next.

[garylmoore]

Peter Jennings is next.

[happygrl]

Anyone here remember the Fall of Daniel Shore, also a leading CBS "journalist" who got into trouble over some bad reporting just like Dapper Dan?

I don't remember the circumstances, but he was forced out of CBS, and ended up at the other Ultra-Liberal station, NPR, where he did reporting for a while.

Daniel Shore wasn't as Dapper as Dan Rather, so they shoved him out in a hurry.

[Republic]

Burkett, who originally claimed he got the documents from another National Guard official, now says they were handed to him at the Houston Astrodome by an anonymous man. He says he told CBS all along that he didn't know if they were authentic.

HUH?

I thought it was a woman, not an anonymous man, ie. 'the evasive Lucy Ramirez' who handed the falsely manufactured documents to Burkett!

LOL

Boy, the LENGTHS CBS will go to avoid a felony charge of distorting federal documents.

[kabar]

Bad article. The big story is that CBS acted as at least the intermediary to arrange a meeting (via telephone)between Burkett and Lockhart/Cleland. CBS was using forged documents to defeat a sitting President in the closing days of an election.

[veronica]

Rather's critics were openly gleeful about Monday's turn of events. ''Anybody who was remotely involved in the production of this story should be fired,'' said Matthew W. Sheffield, a Web designer and writer who helps run ratherbiased.com.

Why shouldn't we be gleeful? We've had a bellyful of liberal media bias for more years than we care to recall. And all the Bush-bashing they've engaged in! Yeah, we're enjoying this. :))

[katana]

We're not "gleeful" (oh, well, maybe some of us are). I think we're mostly unsurprised and still very pi**ed off.

[1rudeboy]

Hey Dan, you're Buck'd.

[tang-soo]

Did I miss this part? ...

"I, Dan Rather would like to personally apologize to President Bush and his family for the pain my mistake has caused"