{"id":2874,"date":"2004-09-20T13:52:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/rather-cops-a-plea\/"},"modified":"2004-09-20T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T20:52:43","slug":"rather-cops-a-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/20\/rather-cops-a-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Rather cops a plea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tDan Rather has plead guilty to Gross Stupidity in order to avoid a conviction for Extreme Bias in the court of public opinion:<\/a><\/p>\n

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CBS News today apologized for the “60 Minutes” story charging that President Bush had received favorable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard and said its source for the story was Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel who has urged Democrats to wage “war” against Republican “dirty tricks.” <\/p>\n

“We made a mistake in judgment and for that I am sorry,” anchor Dan Rather said in a statement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So who do you want cooking your news, the venal or the stupid? <\/p>\n

Neither, thank you; I’ll take the blogs.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Burkett’s story about how he got the memos <\/a>beggars belief, and his former lawyer<\/a> (and my former college buddy) David Van Os says he’s suing CBS for libel and defamation. It’s not quite over yet.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Rather has plead guilty to Gross Stupidity in order to avoid a conviction for Extreme Bias in the court of public opinion: CBS News today apologized for the “60 Minutes” story charging that President Bush had received favorable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard and said its source for the story was Bill … Continue reading “Rather cops a plea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Km","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}