re: #30 piratedan

yeah… I could almost buy that except you tossed this in…

That’s making a presumption for an entire network, which if true, should imply that they would have backed Rather instead of disciplining and eventually firing him.

To clarify: I was saying that the dishonest reporting “was to some extent driven by a desire to see George W. Bush defeated.” I was not trying to imply the entire network was in on it, nor was there an advance desire to defraud. But in accepting bogus documents without question, Mapes and Rather set themselves up for a fall, and their refusal to admit the truth when the documents were exposed was the crucial act of dishonesty.