Ollie vs. Dan (or is it Stan?)

What's the fequency Kenneth?

Dan Rathers over at 'see-BS' (new CBS logo) has sunk to a new low. He has become the news (Rathergate) due to his airing of a 60 Minutes II story in which the prima facia evidence were obvious forgeries. Despite everyone and their brother calling on him to fess up, his arrogance won't let him. He now looks like such a buffoon, he'll never have credibility again, not that he ever had much after his Vietnam reporting fiascos.

But apparently Col. Ollie North is not amused. He just called Dan "Forgeries-R-Us" Rather a "wimp, coward, and a liar", and then "un-American". It's about time someone did. Rather treated Ollie very badly back during the Iran-Contra thing, so as Ollie says now, "it's personal". Good for him. Rather is a sick man, his mental illness has been apparent for years, but CBS keeps trundling him out year after year. It's very amusing to see that Cronkite's heir has morfed CBS from the King of News into the National Enquirer. Viacom stockholders have to be pissed, I wonder why they let it happen?

I think it happened because of the liberal blinders on most of the old media. CBS execs probably don't perceive the liberal bias of their news organization because they are liberally biased themselves. They perceive themselves as moderates, calling folks like Chomsky and Michael Moore the liberals. Old Media execs think folks like Tom Daschle are actually conservatives, when in fact they wouldn't know a moderate if he/she was washing their Mercedes.

But it won't be that way anymore, the Internet has finally set its sights on Old Media. The New Media of Bloggers and commentary sites has broken the leftist media's hold on truth. No longer can the New York Times ignore a story like the Swift Vets - if not for the bloggers (and a little help from Brit Hume, Tony Snow, and others at Fox - not liberal O'Reilly) the NYT, WaPo, Globe, LATimes, CNN would never have even mentioned it. I for one intend for this to become the norm from now on, not the exception.

Adios MF,

Doug