Book States Dan Rather Admits He Doubted 60 Minutes Source All Along
"Dan Rather's future on CBS News certainly looks less than assured, just as the updated paperback edition of David Blum's’s 60 Minutes tell-all, Tick . . . Tick . . . Tick . . . , hits stores this week. Among Blum’s new revelations: The night before last fall's controversial National Guard piece aired, Rather called 60 Minutes Wednesday executive producer Josh Howard from the anchor desk to find out why he wasn't running promos for the story. When Howard told him he couldn't promote it.CBS News president Andrew Heyward hadn't seen it yet, nor had the lawyers, and they hadn't even contacted the White House for comment.Rather threatened to take the story to the Times that night. (Rather later backed down.) The anchor was feeling a good deal less of a cowboy after the story blew up in his face. According to the book, on the night before his on-air apology, Rather confessed to Howard that he'd had doubts about the veracity of the memos all along."
Dan Rather remains the father of all liars and NOTHING the man says surprises me. He had doubts but ran the story anyway? This of course makes it a damn sight worse than merely fucking things up in a rush to air the tale of woe they were concocting, and I'm not naive enough to think that this doesn't happen quite a lot in EVERY form of media, but for crissake the election was right around the corner and they were gunning for the President. Being bent to the left is one thing, making stories out of thin air is, is, well it's damned...bloggish.
And speaking of making stories out of nothing, the above link was found at: lgf: who needs oil? we ride the bus!
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