The New York Observer interviews Dan Ra^ther. Read it all; the elitist arrogance is stunning: Dan Rather To Bush: Answer The Questions. (Hat tip: Kerry Spot.)

The part that made me laugh out loud:

Mr. Rather said that the focus on questions over the veracity of the memos was a smoke screen perpetrated by right-wing allies of the Bush administration.

“I think the public, even decent people who may be well-disposed toward President Bush, understand that powerful and extremely well-financed forces are concentrating on questions about the documents because they can’t deny the fundamental truth of the story,” he said. “If you can’t deny the information, then attack and seek to destroy the credibility of the messenger, the bearer of the information. And in this case, it’s change the subject from the truth of the information to the truth of the documents.

”This is your basic fogging machine, which is set up to cloud the issue, to obscure the truth,“ he said.

Then there’s this:

”There are people who believe that there are little green folks in the center of the earth,“ he said. ”I don’t believe that. It’s possible, but I don’t believe it.”

OK. Which one of you lizards has been talking to Dan Rather? The Terrible Secret of LFG.

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