Friday, September 09, 2005
The first anniversary of Rathergate
Shame on me. I had completely forgotten that today, September 9, is the first anniversary of Rathergate, in which Power Line, Little Green Footballs and a host of other bloggers handed Dan Rather the rope by which he would hang himself. Just for grins, here is the link to the original "Sixty-First Minute" post at Power Line, perhaps the most heavily tracked blog post of all time. And, for a hearty bwahahaha!, here is the link to Charles Johnson's famous "animated gif," which superimposed the alleged Killian memo over a re-typing of the exact text into Microsoft Word's default settings. It's a beautiful thing.
Apart from low-grade piling on during the blogburst, my own contribution did not come until months later, when I fisked the shallow attempt by the New York Review of Books to claim that Rather and CBS News really didn't do anything wrong. We do what we can.
Apart from low-grade piling on during the blogburst, my own contribution did not come until months later, when I fisked the shallow attempt by the New York Review of Books to claim that Rather and CBS News really didn't do anything wrong. We do what we can.
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