Fire, Ready, Aim
Home network project is still under construction, but I have a bit more time this afternoon.
Leaving everything else about Rathergate aside, doesn’t it sound awfully out of kilter to read about “fifteen or so 60 Minutes and CBS News staffers working away feverishly on Friday and Saturday to try to nail down their story” - IOW, two or three days after their story aired?
It would also seem that Our Man Dan has, shall we say, a case of “the nervous complaint.” Unsurprisingly anonymous CBS News sources say Rather spent the day in the woodshed with “nervous” CBS brass. "All Dan could say was that this was an attack from the right-wing nuts, and that we should have expected this, given the stakes," said a CBS News producer to the American Spectator. "He was terribly defensive and nervous. You could tell."
Logically, a man only feels “terribly defensive and nervous” when he is trapped in an uncomfortable situation where he has no positive options or alternatives. Which, in this case, means either completing his professional suicide, or turning on his source. If that source weren’t the Kerry campaign and/or the DNC, the latter wouldn’t seem like that much of a sacrifice to make. And you’ll notice that neither Rather nor CBS has specifically or categorically denied that they got the forged Killian memos from Kerry and/or the DNC.
Leaving everything else about Rathergate aside, doesn’t it sound awfully out of kilter to read about “fifteen or so 60 Minutes and CBS News staffers working away feverishly on Friday and Saturday to try to nail down their story” - IOW, two or three days after their story aired?
It would also seem that Our Man Dan has, shall we say, a case of “the nervous complaint.” Unsurprisingly anonymous CBS News sources say Rather spent the day in the woodshed with “nervous” CBS brass. "All Dan could say was that this was an attack from the right-wing nuts, and that we should have expected this, given the stakes," said a CBS News producer to the American Spectator. "He was terribly defensive and nervous. You could tell."
Logically, a man only feels “terribly defensive and nervous” when he is trapped in an uncomfortable situation where he has no positive options or alternatives. Which, in this case, means either completing his professional suicide, or turning on his source. If that source weren’t the Kerry campaign and/or the DNC, the latter wouldn’t seem like that much of a sacrifice to make. And you’ll notice that neither Rather nor CBS has specifically or categorically denied that they got the forged Killian memos from Kerry and/or the DNC.
posted by JASmius at 11:38 AM
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