CBS "Panel" Report a Whitewash

[cegerer]

Nice SNL lampoon of Rather here:

http://ratherbiased.com/news/content/view/611/2/

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by cegerer

Nice SNL lampoon of Rather here:

I still don't understand what's happening with him?

Is he to go down in history like Bill and Monica? Is there a financial reason for the network to keeping him around? Is it because listeners with the same tilt need a hero to believe in?

[ronin]

desperate times call for desperate measures

[Overpaid Slacker]

From the Thornburgh Report:

...Dotty Lynch, CBS News’ Senior Political Editor....recalled having discussions with Mapes over Labor Day weekend, about the September 8 Segment.
Who is Dotty Lynch? She is CBS News’ “Senior Political Editor” and a self-described “very ardent feminist” and longtime partisan liberal political operative (her mullet and turtleneck fooled me...). Before joining CBS, Lynch directed polling for George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Walter Mondale and the DNC.

What is Lynch’s potential political bias when she was inducted onto the Memogate team a couple of days before the broadcast?

Lynch participated in a December 2004 CSPAN panel. She agreed that the Swift Boat attacks had no basis in fact. To the suggestion that the MSM should have actually investigated what the “facts” were, before pronouncing them to be false, Lynch stated that since the public can only focus on a few sentences of a story, the MSM was justified in not investigating this “complex” Kerry story, because it would only confuse the public. That is, no investigation other than to solicit a denial from the Kerry campaign....

[Update: Sherlock Holmes moment: Kerry campaign aide and Thornburgh Report villian Chad Clanton (friend of Mapes’ husband, he put CBS and Burkett in touch with Joe Lockhart), sat on the same CSPAN panel with Lynch... .]

In Lynch’s her own words: “From 1972 until 1985 I worked in politics as a pollster for Democratic candidates and liberal causes. Most of the candidates, most notably Presidential contenders George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy and Gary Hart, were simpatico with my liberal values and I felt somewhat fulfilled in working through them to build a better society. I had become a very ardent feminist....”