Over the last few days I have heard/read over and over again how the wingnut bloggers managed to get Dan Rather ousted from CBS for being "too liberal" and for botching the Bush National Guard story. That got me to thinking about a blurb I read a couple of years back. After lots of searching I found the story
here from April 2003 - this is what it said:
Conservative group gives Dan Rather high marks
Is Fox News Channel losing its status as a darling of the right? First NBC's Tom Brokaw, not Shepard Smith or Brit Hume, was granted the first wartime interview with President Bush. And now a conservative media group has rated Dan Rather higher than Fox for his war coverage. Basing its assessment on the unabashedly conservative standard of how positively news outlets portrayed the U.S. war effort, the Media Research Center gave Rather's coverage of the war in Iraq a B-plus to Fox News' B. The group, which exists to combat "liberal bias" in the press, said Fox News would have gotten an A if Geraldo Rivera hadn't gotten himself booted from Iraq for compromising the security of U.S. forces. Fox's Hume got the only A given out to a news anchor. CBS received an overall grade of B-minus. NBC, MSNBC and CNN earned C-pluses, ABC got a D-minus and ABC news anchor Peter Jennings received an F. As for Brokaw, his exclusive with the president, Bush's first one-on-one interview since war began last month, will take place today on Air Force One and at two Midwestern events. Parts will air on the "Today" show and "NBC Nightly News" before tomorrow's one-hour special at 9 p.m.
The very same Wingnut Group that gave Rather high-marks for his Iraq War coverage seems to have changed their tune a little over a year later when they said this:
Conservatives are rightfully cheered by the imminent end of liberal activist Dan Rather's 24-year grip on the anchor chair, but it's hard to imagine that any of Rather's proteges would take the bias out of the Evening News. Indeed, the top name floated as taking over for the tainted Rather, Sunday night anchor and White House correspondent John Roberts, has also used his position as a supposedly objective reporter and anchor to help liberal causes and undermine conservatives
I always get a kick out of the wingnuts and their readiness to flip-flop on an issue at the drop of a hat.
Oh yeah... check this out. It seems that wingnut Bill O'Really? thinks that Dan got a bad wrap and his comments obviously didn't sit well with the wingnuts - they were fuming at the truth as usual.
"Knowledge is Power." Sir Francis Bacon
