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From Todays LA Times- “CBS was had. It’s hard to reach any other conclusion about documents that CBS and anchor Dan rather have defended as revealing the truth………But who fed a seeming ringer to CBS and why did the network fal for it?”

Rather is dead. If the LA Times editorial page that is headed by Kinsley is bailing on him everyone will eventually. The Times would rather swallow glass then print anything that would in any small way help the Bush administration so for them to fire the Watergate style what did you know and when did you know it arrows at CBS is the final warning sign to Danny Boy that no one has his back and he might as well send up the white flag and beg for mercy.

Yes the Times will go with the ‘greater truth ” meme. Yes the Times will borrow the cycle of violence cliche like logic to try to compare the swifties story and Rathergate as comparable frauds. But for them to dump Rather so forcefully should signal to CBS that they better clean house and do it quickly before Rather drags their news division into Kitty Kelly territory.