[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Dan Rather's fake memo about President Bush's National Guard service might have gone unchallenged, and affected an election, back in the old days when the media consisted largely of like-minded colleagues who would not embarrass one of their own."

FR busted that one wide open! :) (Buckwheat, I think?) And Inc Pen did this:

[jazusamo]

Well said, Diana!

There’s no doubt in my mind that fifteen or more years ago Rather’s incredible dishonesty would have gone unchallenged and supported by the vast majority of the media. John Kerry would have been elected president and George Bush would have gone down in history as a shirker.

Of course that was only the culmination of Rather’s dishonesty. I’ll always remember his ambush of General Westmoreland, Rather’s integrity was sadly lacking.

How I wish I would have been here at FR when the Rather, Bush thing was happening.