January 11, 2005

Here's George Neumayr over at the The American Spectator on the Thornburgh panel:
The American Spectator

CBS's blue-ribbon panel on journalistic fraud at the network has extended rather than ended the fraud. Instead of exposing a fraud the panel advances a new one: that Dan Rather's fabricated National Guard story wasn't influenced by liberal bias. The panel's report contains a heading called "Factors that Support a Conclusion that a Political Agenda Did Not Motivate the September 8 Segment." Guess what the panel puts under it? "The Previous Work of Rather and Mapes." In other words, the panel considers their previous stories evidence of political neutrality. Are they kidding? The previous work of Rather and Mapes is a glaring factor that supports the conclusion of motivating liberal bias.
[We know, George, we know.--Jen]
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But while Boccardi and Thornburgh are skeptical to the point of stupidity on the question of CBS's political bias, they have no problem dismissing those who first exposed the forgery as "bloggers with a conservative agenda." CBS's panel can authoritatively muse on the motives of Rather's critics while interpreting his motives in the most generous light possible.

Yes, bloggers were "partisan" -- partial to the truth. But so what? CBS's blue-ribbon panelists can turn up their noses at pajama-clad partisans on the Internet, but the fact is they ferreted out a forgery liberal partisans faked up -- and CBS's unpunished star reporter still won't admit it.

George gets this exactly right!
I'm proud to call myself a blogger and a member of the Pajamahadeen after this rout of CBS, although I take no credit for our end of the story, except blogging it--all the credit should go to the Powerline boys and Little Green Footballs' proprietor Charles Johnson, whom I support, laud and admire enormously for their work.
I do count myself as a member in good standing of the group of "bloggers with a conservative agenda," however and one of those poor slobs who've been blogging the War (both fronts: the culture war and the WOT) in my pajamas for almost 3 years!
Even with this major victory against Gunga Dan and his minions, this is only the first battle and there's lots more work to be done, so the Good Guys need everyone of us--bloggers and their readers--to keep slogging away.
For today, though, enjoy reading about the machinations of the MSM trying to deal with their mess (like a bad kitty in the sand box);
Be sure to surf over to Powerline (Time's Blog of the Year, you know!) and to Discarded Lies where Charles Johnson is posting while LittleGreenFootballs is having a DDOS attack.
Also, don't miss the extensive coverage over at Rather Biased.com, then go to RatherGate.com and also check the excellent Wizbang blog, too (He's got a link to a paginated version of the CBS report) to name just the hottest ones covering the breaking news that the one of the MSM's darlings has been caught being partisan and biased!!
Who knew?
(I still won't be truly happy until CBS admits the documents were forged, that they knew they were forged and that they were trying to sabotage President Bush's re-election.
An apology to President Bush and we, the people, would be nice, too.
I'll wait... **crickets**)