A journalistic scandal

Jonah Goldberg:

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What an unbelievable journalistic scandal. Is it even imagineable that "60 Minutes" would have taken documents from a "Clinton hater" with a similar background and then, in a rush to smear him, short-circuit all of the normal rules to get to air?

Basically this story was based on the words of Ben Barnes and Burkett, two known partisans with a Big League gripes against Bush and -- in Barnes' case -- monumental ties to the Kerry campaign. CBS not only served as a transmission belt for this stuff but they willfully cut journalistic corners in the process. Then, when caught, they stonewalled. Rather said his source was "unimpeachable." Unimpeachable!!!! If Burkett is unimpeachable in Dan Rather's eyes. Someone needs to re-open his stories from the very first hurricane.


The rush to air the story coinsides with the Kerry campaign's "Fortunate Son" ad campaign as well as Tom Harkins hollaring about "Bush lied" about his service. Harkin was a strange choice by the Democrats since he lied about serving in Vietnam when he ran for president. If it were not for the rush to coordinate with the Dems and the Kerry campaign, CBS could have taken it times and examined the document in a way to discover the fraud.

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