“REALLY, THOUGH, THIS IS ALL JUST A COINCIDENCE:” John Cole posts a RatherGate / “Operation Fortunate Son” timeline.
This NPR report features talking-heads saying that this story — which involves the release of forged documents in order to influence a Presidential election, and back-channel conversations and what sure looks like collusion between a major television network and a political campaign — isn’t all that important.
No doubt the nabobs of the journalistic ethics establishment would be giving Fox News and the Republicans the same benefit of the doubt, were the facts reversed.