Rather-gate – Did Dan Rather Play Politics With His Reporting?
From the What It’s Worth file we have this. Bernard Goldberg reports on Dan Rather-gate. To be fair, Bernie is not a fan of the big news organizations and clearly says so.
HotAir presents Bernie’s findings:
Who says? The outside panel CBS brought into to get to the bottom of the so-called “Rathergate†mess says. I recently re-examined the panel’s report after a source, Deep Throat style, told me to “Go to page 130.” When I did, here’s the startling piece of information I found:
Mapes had information prior to the airing of the September 8 [2004] Segment that President Bush, while in the TexANG [Texas Air National Guard] did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots. For example, a flight instructor who served in the TexANG with Lieutenant Bush advised Mapes in 1999 that Lieutenant Bush “did want to go to Vietnam but others went first.†Similarly, several others advised Mapes in 1999, and again in 2004 before September 8, that Lieutenant Bush had volunteered to go to Vietnam but did not have enough flight hours to qualify.
Does this put a different light on things? What does this do to Rather’s spat with CBS?
Assuming this is true then Mr. Rather did in fact play politics in his reporting on this subject. And these folks wonder why they are the most Distrusted names in the news business?