re: #122 erik_t

Also, frankly, we should be holding Logan to a higher standard. To do otherwise would be to suggest that CBS did not and should not have learned something from Rather’s cock-up.

The whole Rather story irritated me because it was just idiotic anyway. Who cares if he skyved off during his guard service, it was a long time ago. I don’t get this fascination with what people did in their twenties as somehow being ultra-indicative. I am very little like I was in my early 20s, like, I have exact opposite attributes in many ways. It was not a substantial critique, it was a critique of something explicitly insubstantial—Bush as somehow knowledgeable about war and the military—and elevated that issue far above what it should have been.