I mean, Mary Mapes was caught red-handed calling the Kerry campaign and coordinating media activity with them. This was a planned assault using CBS News to help throw a Presidential race with forged documents.

And they came within a whisker of doing it.

If he claims honestly that his former title of ‘Managing Editor’ (ahem!) was more than simply being a mouthpiece, he admits his suit is baseless and that he spent his career conning everyone into thinking he was a journalist rather than an opinionist.

If he claims he was the victim of staff error, he betrays the con and proves he managed nothing other than good eye-lip coordination.

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players”….: except for elite liberals who sit back and fill the role of critics.

And, damn, there sure are a lot of them and seem to love to suck on the government tit.

[lefties] rely on patriotic conservative Americans to keep you free and then attack them as a bunch of hayseed, extra chromosone religious zealots who are in dire need of elitist guidance.

That’s just it, H. Only it’s not just military: it’s police, fire, charity volunteers, business people, line workers, inventors… Anyone who is responsible, productive, brave, useful, grownup, etc. is supposed to just shut up and take Hillary’s or Ted’s orders. Just keep producing, keep doing the grownup work that makes the world go, while lefties alternately spit on them and run things into the ground.

How DARE military people, business people, line workers (the good ones), etc. organize – under the “conservative” label, or whatever – and rebel against the MSM/Soros/Kennedy/academia/Hollywood elites!!!

The subject is: Dan Rather’s absurd lawsuit to reverse his earlier apology for the absurd forgeries that he, allegedly a fine journalist, absurdly yet dangerously (if you love democracy) peddled to a nation in the throes of a *Presidential* election.

You can’t possibly win on that ground, so you change the subject to: Bush. And not anything current, but an ancient debate on his military service record.

I show how you can’t win on that ground either. So you change the subject to: Dick Cheney, of all people. (I mean: huh?) What’ll your next move be: Bob Dole? Britney Spears? Plan 9 From Outer Space?

ROFL

Just how many left wingers are there in this volunteer service? Maybe a Jim Webb or two who will wax conservative for years and then jump on the liberal band wagon when desperate democrats and personal advancement call.

The last democrat candidate who had anything to talk about in terms of war experience was old George McGovern. And do you remember when Bob Dole ran? The democrats tried to sell the story that his twisted arms and crippled paw were all part of his own retarded actions as an inept soldier. You guys are an embarassment. You rely on patriotic conservative Americans to keep you free and then attack them as a bunch of hayseed, extra chromosone religious zealots who are in dire need of elitist guidance. Ask me about Max Cleland.

1) Bush served in the reserves 6 years, flying a particularly dangerous type of plane – a plane with a bad safety record, known for killing its pilots.
2) That’s way, way, way more than Clinton ever did.
3) Bush joined his fully expecting to be sent to Vietnam. Reserve and National Guard units fought then, as today. National policy projected an increase in U.S. forces from the 500,000s to the 700,000s, at the time he joined.
4) Then the American people elected Nixon, who reversed all that. And no; not because he knew Bush. Deal with it.

If you have a firm set of stones and a spine, how can one be coerced into apologizing for anything?

CBS management “coerced” the veteran news anchor “into publicly apologizing and taking personal blame for alleged journalistic errors in the broadcast,” says the $70 million suit, which also names Sumner Redstone, chief executive of the network’s then-parent company, Viacom; CBS Chairman Les Moonves; and former CBS News president Andrew Heyward.

Several former colleagues said they were baffled by the move. “I think he’s gone off the deep end,” said Josh Howard, who was forced to resign as executive producer of “60 Minutes II” after CBS retracted the story. “He seems to be saying he was just the narrator.

“He did every interview. He worked the sources over the phone. He was there in the room with the so-called document experts. He argued over every line in the script. It’s laughable.”

Rome Hartman, a former executive producer of “CBS Evening News” who now works for the BBC, said: “It’s got to be about this lasting sense of hurt and pride. I was flabbergasted. I just don’t get it.”

It gets worse from there. ROFL

“The Crusaders themselves have testified to their defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the lions of the Taliban,”… “The Crusaders have testified to their own defeat in Iraq at the hands of the mujahideen, who have taken the battle of Islam to the heart of the Islam world.”

-Ayman al-Zawahri on AQ video released 9/18.

Now who, exactly, would those crusaders be? The NYT? Keith Olberman? MSNBC-BS? Harry Reid? Nancy Pelosi? CNN-BS? Turban Durbin? Jack Murtha? John F.uck You Kerry?

How about all of the above including our own Ian, Gillie, Kevin, Chase etc. Who else would al-Qaeda be praising but our own America “loving”, troop “supporting” liberal left????

It still astounds me that the liberal left and al-Qaeda are virtually indistinguishable, but the libs lack what it takes to be embarrassed and appalled by it. I mean, when the enemy of our country has you picked as the electoral favorite, you should feel at least a gas cramp in your gut.

Don’t know whether it’s sad or funny. I guess it’s tragically funny.

John W

Well it all depends if CBS gets pissed by this ingratitude and decides to fight/expose Rather… or to cave. A settlement as little as $500K, I should think, will be touted as a significant victory by the moonbat Left.

That’s my big worry – CBS settles for an “undisclosed amount” and agrees with Dan that the documents were “not proven to be false” or some usch nonsense.

Dan vs CBS – pity they can’t both lose.

Vera’s favorite ‘Danism’: “This race is tight like a too-small bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach.”