Infinite Monkeys
For those of you still monitoring the Dan Rather Frequency -- the farce that is America's most pompous, delusional, journalistic empty-suit poseur -- there is some news (HT: Exurban League).
CBS Says It Will Give Rather the Docs He Wants
Dan Rather's efforts to get CBS to produce in court documents that it has previously withheld concerning the investigation into "Rathergate" could backfire, the network suggested Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, CBS lawyer Jim Quinn said that the network was prepared to produce "virtually all of the materials" that Rather has requested, including a report by documents examiner Erik T. Rigler, which Rather has suggested had been hushed up because they confirmed the authenticity of the controversial documents he referred to on his disputed 60 Minutes II broadcast about President Bush's National Guard service. But Quinn said Tuesday that the Rigler study, far from supporting Rather's claims, will do "just the opposite."
That should be a fun development. In this case, justice delayed (upon Dan's shoddy journalism and outsized ego) will still be justice served.
Rule # 1: The truth will out.
Rule # 2: If you're right, you'll come out smelling like a rose; if you're wrong, you'll come out just smelling.
And that says all I think needs saying about Dan Blather.
Except this: How can a document expert's report prove that documents in proportionally-spaced font and containing superscript actually came from the 1960s?!
Come to think of it, Rule # 3: When you're wrong, fighting to prove you're right will only dig the hole deeper. Just like pouring on more gas when you're stuck in the mud.
Posted by: Dooz at January 25, 2008 07:13 AM