Had a little fun with Photoshop!

[markpkessinger]

[beac]

1. K&R! n/t

[NYC_SKP]

2. More effective if you name them in the graphic, better still if you add a link for each story.

Not everyone knows who they are by their image.

K/R

[Tikki]

3. Too much tarnish on the franchise...

Tikki

[MannyGoldstein]

4. I love it!

Should be everywhere!

[ffr]

5. Good work! That's what I keep saying to everyone about Rather's story: it was true!

[Jim Lane]

6. Well, not completely.

IIRC, Rather touted a document purporting to show that Bush's CO told him to take his physical by a specific date -- an order that was never actually given.

Of course, the important part, without that embellishment, was true -- that Bush had failed to take his physical and was therefore not cleared to fly. If Castro had sent his air force over to attack the Gulf Coast, Bush wouldn't have been able to participate in the defense.

One problem is that Bush's failure to take his physical was known before Rather's story. All Rather added were the embellishments from the documents, which are now generally believed to be false. His report, even had it turned out to be completely true, didn't add very much to what was already known about Bush's dereliction of duty.

That's why I personally believe that Rove had a hand in the whole thing. Rove got the documents out there, hoping that some reporter would get carried away by the hope of landing a scoop, and Rather went for it. The net result, as Rove had hoped, was that people focused on the falsity of Rather's additions to the story and were distracted from the truth of the important parts of the story.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. interesting...very interesting.

"Liberal media" is such a lie.

[cer7711]

11. That's Exactly Right, Jim!

Rovian rat-f--king at its best.

That story was really hurting the shrub, personally as well as professionally back in the late 90s.

Rove & Co. muddied the waters so badly (report the controversy; not the substance of the story!) that no one could see the bottom anymore: a privileged, patrician son of right-wing monied interests who knew the rules never did--and never would--apply to him.

[Ace Acme]

20. The story goes that Michael Moore was given the same docs that Rather got

... but Moore's fact checkers warned him to leave them alone.

[Martin Eden]

7. K&R n/t

[Enthusiast]

8. K&R. We now know for certain

that all of CBS reporting will have right wing bias.

They are no longer worthy of our viewing.

Boycott CBS.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. BA-ZINGA !!!

[rhett o rick]

12. Wouldnt it be ironic if Lara was set up? nm

[Laelth]

13. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[pacalo]

14. That's great, Mark!

[krawhitham]

15. it took 650 days before Dan was fired from CBS

His 60 minutes report aired on September 8, 2004

182 days later he was removed from the Evening News on March 9, 2005 (It was the lowest rated nightly news at the time)

650 days later he was fired (technically not fired, his contract was not renewed) on June 20, 2006


It has been 31 days since the 60 Minutes' Benghazi report aired

Maybe we should wait and see if they renew Lara Logan's contract before passing judgement

[Cha]

17. Thanks for the timeline.. maybe we should keep up the pressure

while we're waiting.



http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/13/rise-and-shine-667/

[Cha]

16. Excellent mark! What it Does say about CBS is that they're

full of BS and can't be trusted. And, this conservativewhore "bias" has been going on this whole century and before.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

18. Do you hear that whirring sound?

It's Morrow, Cronkite, and Severeid spinning in place!

[catbyte]

19. Awesome! great job. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

21. We got the bubble-headed bleach blonde...

comes on at five, she can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye...

Don Henley nailed it years ago with Dirty Laundry.

[passiveporcupine]

22. K&R