Saturday, September 11, 2004
Memogate Update
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (Power Line has great coverage), Dan Rather is still insisting that the Bush-AWOL memos are authentic. Perhaps he is still shell-shocked. But then, I doubt he will every admit the truth. And he will end his career as a laughing stock.
I don't know what the Boston Globe's excuse is -- they seem to be still actively engaged in a cover-up of their front-page stories, egregiously misquoting a forensic expert in a new gigantic front-page lie.
And Mark Steyn comments on the blatent bias shown by the Boston Globe in their coverage of the Swift Vets vs the Bush AWOL story.
A few weeks ago, Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe was on PBS' ''Newshour'' explaining why the hundreds of swift boat veterans' allegations against John Kerry's conduct in Vietnam was unworthy of his attention. "The standard of clear and convincing evidence," he said, talking to Swiftvet John O'Neill as if he were a backward fourth-grader, ''is what keeps this story in the tabloids -- because it does not meet basic standards.''
Last week, we got a good idea of what Thomas Oliphant's ''basic standards'' are. Dan Rather and the elderly gentlemen at ''60 Minutes'' were all atwitter because they'd come into possession of some hitherto undiscovered memos relating to whether George W. Bush failed to show up for his physical in the War of 1812. The media had been flogging this dead horse all spring, but these newly ''discovered'' memos had jump-started the old nag just enough to get him on his knees long enough for the media to flog him all over again....
Hey, why not? Who's gonna spot it? If CBS says it's so, that's good enough for Thomas Oliphant's Boston Globe, the New York Times and the Washington Post, all of whom rushed the story onto their front pages because it met their ''basic standards.''
