re: #342 ralphieboy

When Nixon had trouble with the press, it was because the institution was doing its job of investigative reporting too well and getting at some things he wished to keep covered up.

And when Bush was having trouble with investigative reporters from CBS, he simply employed Karl Rove to demolish Dan Rather’s career in one of the most brilliantly evil disinformation campaigns in recent history.

Not quite. A Bush hater cooked up some forged documents, and like-minded Bush-hating CBS had such a hard-on for their impending scoop that they couldn’t be bothered to vet them. They made the mistake of posting them on the internet, and the power of aggregate knowledge took it from there. Charles, that freeper in Atlanta, and IIRC Allah exposed the forgeries in no time.