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February 28th 2005     

Rather: "What Bias? What Forgery?" Redux

Posted by: Laer at 09:34 am

Writing in today’s USA Today, Peter Johnson prefaces a New Yorker interview due out today. It seems for all his news smarts, Rather’s just not able to get to the bottom of this story:

… Rather … is puzzled that the media did not play up the fact that the panel found no political bias, as his critics contended, in his controversial 60 Minutes story last fall that questioned President Bush’s National Guard service during Vietnam.

Rather says he also is puzzled that the media downplayed the panel’s inability to prove that memos used to support Rather’s story were forged.

Unbelievable. A mea culpa was all it would have taken to save himself and perhaps CBS, but he still refuses. In fact, he’s learned nothing at all:

“if I had to move this afternoon on a big story, one that had the potential of being controversial, I’d be very happy to go on that story with the same people, each and every one.”

Good thing he won’t get another chance.

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