Food for Thought

In reviewing the recent incident at CBS, am I the only one who is completely irritated that one of the major US broadcast networks is again involved in typical partisan ploys? This time round, it's Dan Rather and the producers at 60 Minutes who have shirked their responsibilities as journalists in furthering their own leftist political leanings by reporting as fact data from forged documents that had not even passed the simplest and most rudimentary fact verification. Frankly, it doesn’t take a genius and a little bit of effort to differentiate between a 1970s IBM Selectric typewriter and an adjustable font, modern day word processor. Their motives were underhanded and intended solely to impact the reelection campaign of President George W. Bush, pure and simple.

Regardless of our readers’ political persuasions and forgetting for one moment one's opinion of President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, the general public should be reminded that all three major networks broadcast their programs over publicly-owned spectrum for free. Accordingly, a certain level of professionalism and objectivity in their political coverage is to be expected.

As for Dan Rather, it's time this bloated, biased, self-important, would-be journalist is put to pasture.