The trolls on that article are classic.

Leave the old man alone. He's only one of thousands of left wingers that have allowed hate to turn to insanity. Soon we will have to lock all the loons up and they'll be out of the way, not just out of it.

Pretty soon he'll be pitching (long discredited) (and phony) nerve gas stories like Peter Arnett.

When lefties "go bad" they do it hard and fast.

as it stands today, he'd have a hard time getting a gig at Al-Jazzera

"It was the blogger, the internet blogger who instantly went after you and CBS with an effect that was very damaging..."

"...an effect..."
also known as the truth...

"CBS News doesn't want me to do that story. They wouldn't let me do that story," Rather said, declining to elaborate further.

Um, Dan, they did let you do that story, and you and Mary just about ruined whatever was left of CBS News's credibility. Remember that?

Gee, I wonder why on Earth CBS wouldn't want to be embarrassed for a second time by Document Dan's bullshit.

On the other hand, maybe he's finally tracked down Lucy Ramirez...

I'm still waiting for a check from my handlers.

Kalb's comments are classic, too:

I have always been astonished that even before the program ended, it was still on. A blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active air force officer blasted the program. Four hours later, another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the document that you used in the report.

How many errors can you pack into a couple of sentences? FreeRepublic isn't a blog, it's a bulletin board. Jim Robinson is in a wheelchair, not the Air Force, and when he did serve, it was in the Navy. And Buckhead was a poster on FreeRepublic, not a website. Nice research, there. Layers of fact checking.

Now, I have always wondered to myself. That's an amazingly swift bit of research. You watch something on air, four hours later, you are prepared to run pages and pages of detailed criticism of the document. How does somebody do that that quickly?

It's called domain knowledge plus familiarity with Google. I swear it's like these reporters have never met an actual expert on something, or even just a smart analytical person. Sure, they've interviewed blowhard spokesmodel type experts a thousand times, but good God, this guy talks as if it takes a week for an expert to debunk something that is obviously fake. I know. I'll try to fob off a piece of bottle glass as a million dollar diamond in the Diamond District on 47th street. When they give me detailed reasons why I should go piss up a rope, I'll think to myself: "How does somebody do that that quickly? I mean, he didn't even use his eyepiece. He must be a connected guy and hired someone to watch me. He must have known I was coming."

The fact it was so fast demonstrates how transparently bad it was, so bad that only a fool who desperately wanted to believe it to be true could have fallen it.

The greedy make the best pigeons.

The story was written to fit Dan and Mary Mope's delusional perception of the President as a shirker. For cryin' out loud, the man flew jet aircraft. If GWB was a drunken rich boy slacker as the left has tried so hard to prove, he'd have been driving around Chappaquiddick three sheets to the wind with a young female campaign worker in the passenger seat, not hurtling through the sky in an aging military fighter.

I love the still shot. He's even got that haunted Dick Nixon look in his eye.

In his career, Dan must have handled thousands of pages of copy typed on manual typewriters. I'm a good deal younger than he, and I took one look and said, "wait, this was supposed to have been typed on a 1970's era typewriter? I don't think so!" I can forgive him for looking at some grubby Xeroxes and not immediately remembering it should be Courier monospace, not Times New Roman proportional. But the instant somebody pointed it out, it's obvious to anyone older than 25 those are fakes.

I'm guessing it's even obvious to Dan. But he seems to think the fact that he was pantsed by partisans affects the facts somehow.

It's absolutely amazing to me that Rather has so little self-awareness. Can he really be that dumb?

Rather's been a journalist for decades. Doesn't he have an opinion on whether CBS should have published as true documents that, by even his admission, they couldn't verify, and whether they should have stood by those documents?

Every interview with Rather should start with - when doubts were raised about the documents, instead of investigating those doubts, you went on TV and said that you had gotten the documents from an "unimpeachable source." Was that the right thing to do?

Rather said, adding that his network was derelict in not "knowing enough of how quickly bloggers could strike."

well, it helps that you try something so patently absurd that even morons like me can spot it in a few minutes.

This is incredible stuff. This guy really believes that conservative bloggers were just lying in wait for him, like "insurgents" in the bullrushes. He has no inkling of the true nature of the force that he has come up against.

Either that, or he is in the most profound case of denial I've ever seen.

How pathetic. How damningly pathetic.

We dealt with a story that had thermonuclear potential for reaction.

That's what gets me. He really thinks people give a rat's ass if the President gold-bricked his last 2 (of 6) years of Guard duty. Why does he think this? Not because anybody in his East Side social circle actually cares, but because the moonbats do.

Now are you a serious journalist if you pick a story to pursue because it will inflame moonbats? Suppose we just concede he gold-bricked his last 2 years of duty and then let's put his record against Bill Clintons.

It's scary that these people are so deluded and yet they can find so many who share the same delusions. Dan needs to decide of he's one of the deluded or just a guy who throws them red meat.

I caught a bit of the re-run of Murphy Brown from 15 years ago last night when she was dealing with a Journalism student. He made the comment :

"Gee, Dan Rather really hates George Bush"

Of course, he meant 41, but it's good to see some things never change.

Dan's still stuck on "what's the frequency".

The Friday after Rather's first report aired, I watch "The People's Court" with the fine Marilyn Millian(?). In the show, a plaintiff gave the court a document that had been copied and she stated that because it was copied, it was suspect as evidence since she couldn't tell if the inks on the writing was the same or if anything had been added to it or verified.

So a court show on TV gives the world enough reasons to discount any copied document as evidence yet still these same people claim, "It hasn't been disproven."

When you make the claim, Dan, you have the burden of proving it. Until it is proven, it should be counted as suspect.

He really thinks people give a rat's ass if the President gold-bricked his last 2 (of 6) years of Guard duty.

Yes, that's the sweetest bit. Even if the story were 100% true and backed by genuine memos, his explosive scoop is...George Bush goofed off at the end of his stint and got away with it because he's from an influential family. Yawn me a river. Dan Rather pissed away his career and his legacy faking the most boring story of the year.

I could die of shadenfreude, right here on the spot.

He really thinks people give a rat's ass if the President gold-bricked his last 2 (of 6) years of Guard duty.

Especially since questions of character and military leadership are first-term issues. After he's served a term, he's running on his actual first-term record and demonstrated character, not a prediction of his presidential timber based on decades-old incidents.

This guy really believes that conservative bloggers were just lying in wait for him

Its a "target rich environment" -- no laying in wait is really necessary. The victims present themselves at our feet all the time.

Its a matter of triage rather than hunt.