REVISIONISM: Remember ‘Memogate’? Makers of a Dan Rather Film Don’t.

They rushed the documents onto air, and then, when the story exploded in their face, they spent an unconscionably long time attacking the people who had pointed out the glaring issues with their source material. They clung to theories along the lines of Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Killian assiduously fiddling with the margin stops on his typewriter, such that they coincidentally lined up exactly with the defaults in as-yet-uninvented Microsoft Word. For two weeks, they dragged their network through a professional embarrassment of a scale that has rarely been reached again, because they didn’t do the most basic thing we’re paid for: properly vet their story before they started hurling serious, potentially election-altering accusations at a sitting president.

Okay, so that’s why Rather left CBS. But that is not, according to Rather, the story you will hear in the movie.

So it’s a sanitized airbrushing. Worthy of Dan Rather himself.