That's a pretty damn good roster of Neocons and Neocon Propagandists....

Well, this certainly looks like a fair and balanced list to me. I'm sure they could review the facts deliberately and thoroughly and make wise and impartial decisions. Their careers to date have, without question, been monuments to truth and thoughtful reasoning of which we should all be proud.

WTF????? I'd rather take my chances with a firing squad.

WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA?

I love investigations, especially those in which the person is already guilty and no charges have been filed.

1. The Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland

2. Richard III

3. Tomás de Torquemada

4. Joseph McCarthy

5. Ken Starr

6. Inspector Clouseau

This kangaroo court assemblage of biased blowhards certainly effectively demonstrates that Rather was indeed railroaded. Rather will "win" this - meaning CBS will settle to keep things like this hush-hush.

Listen: hear that? It's Ed Murrow, spinning in his grave.

At the risk of being overly paranoid, I've always been suspicious that this whole thing was too neat and clean a way of getting Bush's Air Natl Guard service questions out of the way while the Swift Boaters attacked Kerry's legitimate service. Plant documents that confirm suspicions but are demonstrably faked and wait for some unsuspecting journalist to take the bait. During that whole campaign, the facts of Bush's service never came to light (or were even discussed) because they were able to scream "forged documents!". That left the playing field wide open to smear Kerry without reprisal. I'm just saying.

What I want to know is why Karl Rove was excluded from the list. Or was it Rove that suggested the list?

If this list haunts my REM state tonight, I'm blaming Alex.

I was always amazed at the Shakespearean-sized iron of the whole thing.

A reporter, despite doing some fact-checking and investigating, is misled by false information in breaking a story. Fire him immediately! Ridicule him!

A president, while squelching any fact-checking, cherry-picks false information in sending us to war. But we were supposed to reelect him, because "you don't change horses mid-stream."

Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife?

I would not put David Brooks on such a black list. While he is a Conservative, he is also damn smart and capable of being objective. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, but I look forward to reading his Tuesday and Friday columns in the NYT and hearing his Friday comments on The NewsHour on PBS.

Tha'ts "Shakespearean-sized *irony*', not iron. (I imagine irons haven't changed much in size since Shakespeare's day).

@poljunkie

I too have had similar thoughts. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but let's assume the whole thing was cooked up by Republicans. It's a clever strategy: Provide phony documents to a respected newsman, then expose the documents as being fake. Now it doesn't matter what is written about Bush's military record because it can't be trusted; therefore, the issue has been neutralized. And Republicans get to blow on about the crazy left. Without any proof my theory is crazy, which lends more credence to the left being full of crazy people. Oh, the evil strategy works on so many levels. It's brilliant!

...if you're going to investigate a lifelong professional journalist, journalism's investigative procedure, and journalistic ethics, you should -- I dunno -- maybe pick journalists? These people often defend their complete lack of fact-checking with the plaintive refrain, "I'm not a journalist -- I'm a commentator. Can't expect me to know what I'm talking about."

It will turn out that Rather was 100% correct and Bush was absolutely caught in a felony charge with his no-show ANG 'job' to avoid going to Nam. It will turn out that Rather will have proved his case that Bush was a draft dodger and Rove and company covered up this felony for political purposes. It will turn out that the shitheads re elected a coward and a criminal in 2004.

Of course by mid next year, Bush will be living in Abu Dhabi.

I haven't seen much of her lately, did the final stage of her de-manifcation, an adam's apple-ectomy, go horribly wrong?

Her astute, balanced political wisdom must be missed by someone out there....someone? anyone?

...and probably will help him win his lawsuit.

I actually thought it was a joke at first. Unless CBS can get a jury made up completely of "Bushies" Rather is on the road to exoneration and a big freak'n payday... on CBS's tab.

That's a joke, right? I agree with the poster who said he'd rather face a firing squad, the odds are better.

It's not serious, is it?

Babs, too? Jeb busy? Neil had to have been free...

A local liberal commentator said recently on the air that if you weren't for the war (Iraq), then you couldn't be called patriotic. I was astounded by that remark, but given the post-9/11 mindset, it reflects what many believed as truth, because that's what they were SOLD as truth. Dan Rather is one of the few who had the moral compunction to speak the real truth, so they axed him. He has every right to see his day in court and I hope for his sake and the sake of our country that he wins a huge settlement. Is there some way we could set some of the people on this list against each other? Then we wouldn't have to listen to any of them.

I don't get it. Bush is a born slacker. Of course it was true that he was guilty as charged.