Via Eschaton: The funny (and of course overlooked by the cranial-rectal inversion crowd) thing about the CBS/document story is that contrary to the screeching about it, the entire saga is proof that there is no goddamn liberal media.
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Excellent post from Atrios concerning the amount of real bullshit that goes on in the media today and in recent years and the comparative actions. From Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass to all of the crap that was Whitewater-era trash journalism. I do not understand how this country keeps itself so easily involved with every little fake crisis that the media or this current administration can come up with while ignoring real issues, or quietly forgetting similar situations that don't shine favorably on The Right.
A boob gets exposed during half time at the Superbowl last year, and we get "nipplegate." CBS rushes a story with cooked documents from questionable sources and we get "Rathergate." George Tenet and the CIA aid a spurious war in Iraq by rushing cooked documents from questionable sources, thousands die, and Tenet gets a presidential medal of freedom and Bush gets re-elected. And where's the *gate on this talk show host that turned himself into a paid advertisement for Bush's No Child Left Behind act? Or is that one going to quietly disappear while this whole Dan Rather thing goes on for eight months, or however long it takes until the Robert Blake murder trial kicks into high gear so we can talk about that non-stop?