By any fair reckoning, Rather should resign. As a big shot at CBS News-in addition to being anchorman-in-chief, he has been the managing editor of the CBS Evening News since March 1981-he deserves to be held to the same standard as Howell Raines, the executive editor of The New York Times, who was forced to resign last year in the wake of a news-fabrication scandal.
What I say is, how about holding BUSH to the same standard.
Hey, Rather was duped by evidence he thought was real.
That is a familiar excuse, isn't it?
The only difference is, when Bush was duped by his evidence, thousands of people died.
If Rather should resign after 21 years for making this one mistake, surely you can agree that Bush should resign after just four years for making this monumental mistake.
Read the rest of Pinkerton's column. Sure, it's a good column. Sadly, it still distracts from the real point that Bush bailed on the last of his National Guard duty. That's the real tragedy of this whole mess. It has nothing to do with the core of the story, that Bush went AWOL. This should be viewed by any American as an unPatriotic and unAmerican thing to do. It's one thing to dodge the draft, but to bail even on your Nation Guard duty? What a bastard.
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