Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Post abandons CBS
WaPo is not providing cover to CBS anymore on the Memogate fiasco. Powerline, the blog that broke the story of the fake memos, thinks the whole sorry affair is moving toward some kind of denouement.
If there were any justice, this would lead to the resignation of Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, and the pursuit of the documents right back to their law-breaking, federal document-forging source.
The great liberal hope on this one -- that the forgeries were actually planted by Karl Rove's operatives in an effort to discredit CBS -- seems a vanishingly small one to me. Surely if the source were a conservative, it would've been exposed immediately by CBS. No way they'd let themselves get pilloried the way they are, if a Republican could be blamed.
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If there were any justice, this would lead to the resignation of Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, and the pursuit of the documents right back to their law-breaking, federal document-forging source.
The great liberal hope on this one -- that the forgeries were actually planted by Karl Rove's operatives in an effort to discredit CBS -- seems a vanishingly small one to me. Surely if the source were a conservative, it would've been exposed immediately by CBS. No way they'd let themselves get pilloried the way they are, if a Republican could be blamed.
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