Dan Rather's defense of those forged National Guard documents brings to mind the Clinton White House response to anything negative. You continue to scream louder that you've done nothing wrong. As evidence piles on that makes your case harder to believe, you stand defiant. When finally, you're the only one left to believe it, you simply pretend you were a victim too. The story will then just disappear, you won't be held accountable, and your integrity won't be questioned the next time a similar thing happens.
Mark Steyn had a genius column that demonstrates that standards of credibility usually coincide with the liberal media's own prejudices. Just compare the Swiftboat Veterans with Barnes.
Unfortunately for CBS, Dan Rather's hairdresser sucks up so much of the budget that there was nothing left for any fact-checking, so the ''60 Minutes'' crew rushed on air with a damning National Guard memo conveniently called ''CYA'' that Bush's commanding officer had written to himself 32 years ago. ''This was too hot not to push,'' one producer told the American Spectator. Hundreds of living Swiftvets who've signed affidavits and are prepared to testify on camera -- that's way too cold to push; we'd want to fact-check that one thoroughly, till, say, midway through John Kerry's second term. But a handful of memos by one dead guy slipped to us by a Kerry campaign operative -- that meets ''basic standards'' and we gotta get it out there right away.
This should at least put this "objective" media nonsense to rest. Why don't the unreconstructed Great Society media liberals just admit that they're pushing an agenda? It's becoming the Emperor’s New Clothes.
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