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Such was the question to Dan Rather, in October of 1986, when, on a street somewhere in New York City, a crazed mugger pummeled him while repeatedly asking, “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” In 1997, Rather identified William Tager from a photograph in the New York Daily News. Tager, currently serving prison time for the killing of an NBC stagehand in 1994, seemed to have been convinced that government agents were beaming signals into his head. With a certainty that eerily echoes his defense of the faked memos in the President Bush National Guard story on 60 Minutes II, Rather said,...

As your intrepid reporter on liberal bias at the morning news shows, a thought was running through my mind as I watched last night's speeches by McCain and Giuliania: "these are so good, there is no way the morning shows can spin these as anything but a major blow to John Kerry." Apparently the morning shows agreed, because to varying degrees they adopted the strategy that the best coverage was limited coverage, or in the absolutely mind-blowing case of CBS' Early Show, NO COVERAGE AT ALL! OK, in fairness, there was some brief mention of the convention during the Early...