Conservative bloggers....y'all who spent 2 months on Swift Boats Vets and just 2 weeks on Dan Rather's botched story....why has the RatherGate talk suddenly ceased? Why aren't you conservatives still in a furious uproar? It would be perfectly legitimate to be outraged that one of the three major news anchors had it in for your candidate and even aired false documents. Why did the uproar die down so quickly?
Because, some Bush-Backers noticed:
Dan Rather vs George Bush on the facts
September 22, 2004
Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor
1) given documents he thought were true
2) failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
3) reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
4) when confronted with the facts, apologized and launched an investigation
5) number of Americans dead: 0
6) should be fired as CBS News Anchor
George W. Bush, President of the United States
1) given documents he thought were true
2) failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
3) reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
4) when confronted with the facts, continued to report untruths and stonewalled an investigation
5) number of Americans dead: 1100 -- so far
6) should be fired as President of the United States