According to Anne Morse at National Review, Dan Rather is no stranger to lying while looking straight into the camera lens - and therefore into the eyes of the American public. How long are you going to cover for this pathological liar, CBS?
The first Rathergate "took place 16 years ago when Dan Rather successfully foisted a fraud onto the American people. Then, unlike now, there was no blogosphere to expose him."
The June 2, 1988 CBS hour-long special titled CBS Reports: The Wall Within, which CBS trumpeted as the "rebirth of the TV documentary", apparently is an hour long lie that wasn't discovered until B.G. Burkett, a Vietnam veteran and author of Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History (with Glenna Whitley). Burkett discovered that only one of the vets had actually served in combat. Steve Southards, who'd claimed to be a 16-year-old Navy SEAL assassin, had actually served as an equipment repairman stationed far from combat. Later transferred to Subic Bay in the Philippines, Steve spent most of his time in the brig for repeatedly going AWOL.
