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"Apparently, the fraudulent memo scandal has taught CBS News absolutely nothing." Charles Johnson wrote yesterday at littlegreenfootballs.com. He was referring to a "CBS Evening News" story on Tuesday that suggested that the Iraq war and other military actions might force the government to resume the military draft -- a line being promoted by Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign. Mr. Johnson quoted another Web site, RatherBiased.com: "In a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger used debunked Internet hoax e-mails and an unlabeled interest group member to scare elderly 'Evening' viewers into believing that the...

He knows it sounds like false modesty. Or a clumsy attempt to seem gracious. But though he's spent four years maintaining a Web site dedicated to proving CBS anchor Dan Rather is biased; and though RatherBiased.com contributed to the outcry that forced the anchor to admit serious flaws in his Sept. 8 60 Minutes story about President Bush's National Guard service, Matthew W. Sheffield insists one thing is true. He doesn't hate Dan Rather. "We just wanted to fully expose and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that any claims to nonpartisanship and objectivity on his part were patently false," said...

In one of the highest-profile retractions in the history of broadcast news, CBS admitted Monday that documents it used for a story accusing President Bush of receiving preferential treatment during his Vietnam-era service in the National Guard may have been forgeries. ''We should not have used them,'' CBS News President Andrew Heyward said. ``That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.'' CBS anchor Dan Rather, who for the past two weeks claimed that critics of the documents were merely disgruntled Bush supporters, added his own apology. ''If I knew then what I know now, I would not have gone ahead...

Not long ago, pundits feared ongoing allegations about President Bush's National Guard service would hijack the campaign, forcing the candidates to waste precious pre-election time talking about a 30-year-old war. Instead, days after CBS News admitted that it may have featured forged documents in its blockbuster story on Bush's guard activities, something worse has occurred: We are wasting time talking about CBS' coverage of Bush's Vietnam War-era service. It may have been one of the most rapid disintegrations of a major news story since Jayson Blair. Within hours of the 60 Minutes story Sept. 8 alleging family influence got Bush...

    This ThursdayJuly 24th, 2003 ~ 10pmE/7pmP with Guest HostessDiotima "Of Bias and Babes"   Matthew ScheffieldofRatherBiased.comdiscusses SeeBS's latest scandalous behavior and Tom SchneiderofJerseyGOP.comwill discuss the latest Republican Babes(and other less frivolous things, maybe) Plusas always CRB'sandBone-headed Lieberals (...because you just can't make this stuff up.)             1-866-RADIOFR     Tune in. Call in.         CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE             Because if the apathy don't get ya,the complacency will.    

2002-08-21 05:48 pm PT After ceasing publication on November 26, 2001, RatherBiased.com has returned. The political atmosphere during the months following September 11, 2001 was conciliatory and a truce had formed between Democrats and Republicans. Everyone, including Dan Rather, refrained from partisan sniping for political gain. Rather abided by the truce, until his fellow Democrats in Congress realized that they needed to get back on track for the 2002 off-year elections. But with Democrats and the media trying to connect George W. Bush with Enron, and both sides blaming each other for 9-11, the tranquil period--unprecedented in American history-ended....