On September 8, 2004 CBS's broadcast a story regarding George W. Bush's military record. Within hours of this broadcast the authenticity of these documents was called into question. Twelve days later, CBS News President Andrew Heyward said, "Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret."
From that point forward in the presidential debates, all attacks on Bush's military history, and most attacks on him specifically from CBS and most of the mainstream media lost their teeth, regardless of the accuracy of the report, as the media was viewed as unquestionably biaed.
So what does that have to do with the 9/11 Docu-travesty about to be aired? Everything.
It does not appear we will be able to stop this trainwreck, but perhaps this is a blessing in disguise if we learn from this administration and use Rovejitsu. Rather than dismissing it and ignoring it, let's use it to finally kill the liberal media bias myth once and for all.
I want every actor, writer, and producer on this film to be put on the hot seat and forced to acknowledge that they made it up. I want the FBI agents who refused to do the movie because the information was false to be on Good Morning America on Monday Morning, and then do an hour of Larry King that night. I want 60 Minutes to do an entire hour of coverage on the inaccuracy of the movie, what really happened, and what was omitted.
I want every water cooler in America buzzing about this, buttressed by wall to wall coverage. Give them their ratings, just as CBS's new certainly got theirs that night the Bush military documents aired. And just as the questionable truth of that affair turned what seemed a crushing blow into a asset, the potential is there to do the same.