On CBS, Dan Rather and George W. Bush...
I am sure many of you have heard in recent days about the fallout CBS is receiving over a story it aired last week on 60 Minutes II regarding George W. Bush's service in the military. We all know W's service record has some holes in it, both sides claiming different reasons for those gaps. CBS, however, uncovered information that was not favorable to the President. Yesterday, however, it retracted that story saying they could not confirm documents they used in the story and were deliberately misled by the informant. Because of that, 40 congress men and women have signed a letter addressed to CBS News claiming they are deceptive. I'll give you a moment to laugh. Congress, claiming a news organization is deceptive? You're kidding. Before these men and women of the law start throwing stones in glass houses, it would be interesting to determine just how many of them are Republicans, and then determine how many of them feel Fox News really is "fair and balanced."
We all know the media in this country and the stories they produce are to be taken with a grain of salt. It has become clear there are news organizations that decidedly lean left or right, and one needs to guage the information they receive from any one source. I'd like to know what those 40 congress men and women have to say about the recent report by the CIA claiming the situation in Iraq to be most dire -- all the while the President hops and skips around the country claiming progress is being made in Iraq.
What progress? I don't believe everything I see and hear on TV, but when you have a government that is just as deceptive, how are you to know what is truly going on? I believe there is no meaningful progress being made in Iraq. If there were, the number of westerners being kidnapped would be decreasing, not increasing, and the safety of our soldiers there would be increasing. So CBS was duped. But the scary thing is, George W. Bush is trying to dupe the nation.
I am sure many of you have heard in recent days about the fallout CBS is receiving over a story it aired last week on 60 Minutes II regarding George W. Bush's service in the military. We all know W's service record has some holes in it, both sides claiming different reasons for those gaps. CBS, however, uncovered information that was not favorable to the President. Yesterday, however, it retracted that story saying they could not confirm documents they used in the story and were deliberately misled by the informant. Because of that, 40 congress men and women have signed a letter addressed to CBS News claiming they are deceptive. I'll give you a moment to laugh. Congress, claiming a news organization is deceptive? You're kidding. Before these men and women of the law start throwing stones in glass houses, it would be interesting to determine just how many of them are Republicans, and then determine how many of them feel Fox News really is "fair and balanced."
We all know the media in this country and the stories they produce are to be taken with a grain of salt. It has become clear there are news organizations that decidedly lean left or right, and one needs to guage the information they receive from any one source. I'd like to know what those 40 congress men and women have to say about the recent report by the CIA claiming the situation in Iraq to be most dire -- all the while the President hops and skips around the country claiming progress is being made in Iraq.
What progress? I don't believe everything I see and hear on TV, but when you have a government that is just as deceptive, how are you to know what is truly going on? I believe there is no meaningful progress being made in Iraq. If there were, the number of westerners being kidnapped would be decreasing, not increasing, and the safety of our soldiers there would be increasing. So CBS was duped. But the scary thing is, George W. Bush is trying to dupe the nation.
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