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Damn those bloggers.

Fake and litigious: The $70 million suit.

Over at the excellent Investor’s Business Daily editorial website, IBD editorials, the board looks at the Tiffany Network’s decision to hire an old Clinton crony:
After “60 Minutes” used fake documents to accuse President Bush of avoiding war service, how could CBS News possibly stoop lower? By hiring a longtime Clinton crony to rescue its evening [...]

The Associated Press controversy over its six burning Sunnis story is not just about AP. It’s a burning credibility crisis that stretches from Pallywood to the Fauxtography scandal and beyond.
Milblogger Greyhawk takes on the Times’ Ed Wong and his reporting in Hurriya. Greyhawk zeroes in on this paragraph:
From morning until afternoon, at least [...]

Mary Katharine Ham is fed up with guy bloggers having all the fun. So for all the ladies in the house: Man Candy.
Free market think tank types want in on the action, too. They are actually holding a contest to vote for the “most beautiful policy people.” I link, you decide.
Dan Riehl and Jim Treacher [...]

***update 12:12pm Eastern…Rush Limbaugh right now: “Reuters ought to be investigated. They should investigate themselves…The second doctored photo is a ‘doozy’…Once again, as in the Dan Rather case, it was the blogosphere that brought this to light…It’s devastating, folks…this is the tip of the iceberg, not just Reuters…”***
***update: Rush audio here and CNN vid of [...]

A not-so-fond farewell to Connie Chung and Dan Rather–together again and, we hope, nevermore.
Susan Estrich is not happy.
Brent Bozell is.

Robin Boyd at Newsbusters notes that the Associated Press is playing book publicist for NYTimes reporter James Risen, whose book blabbing about the Bush administration’s classified counterterrorism programs is out today:
The AP has earned quite a reputation of ignoring the positive reports out of Iraq and painting with a broad brush of negativity. They [...]

To the dismay of the MSM, the blogosphere didn’t go away in 2005. Here are some of the more memorable moments in the clash of the bloggers vs. MSM:
10. Commentator Bill Press’s condemnation of bloggers as people “with no credentials, no sources, no rules, no editors and no accountability.” Press’s idea of good [...]

Little Green Footballs has the top 20 nominees for the Annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. Tough competition this year includes:
Cindy Sheehan
Harry Reid
Mary Mapes
George Clooney
Sean Penn
Howard Dean
Ward Churchill
Dan Rather
Chris Matthews
Nancy Pelosi
Noam Chomsky
Kofi Annan
Ramsey Clark
Send LGF any other names you think should be on the list.
Here’s mine:
For its reckless endangerment of [...]

Oh, this should be good Saturday night entertainment:
Rather to sub on Larry King Live
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Previous:
Gunga Dan weeps, and other spectacles
Whither Dan Rather?
So long, farewell, adieu, adieu, adieu
“Evaporated:” The Dan and Dave Show

Tuesday quick links:
-Dan Rather has a crocodile tear-shedding, lip-quivering meltdown. Dry-eyed comments from Penraker, the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Roger L. Simon, and Steve J.
-Robert Spencer on The Hijab That Wasn’t.
-FEC sues the Club for Growth. FEC statement here. Club for Growth response here. RedState, BizzyBlog, and Jack Lewis sound the alarm.
-More ungrateful critics of the [...]

The New York Sun is the first print outlet to pick up on yesterday’s Air America post authored by Brian Maloney and me. Reporter David Lombino writes:
A lawsuit filed by an owner of radio stations claims that the transfer of ownership of the Air America radio network from Progress Media to Piquant LLC in May [...]

Number of NY Times articles mentioning Air America since March 2004: 59
Number of NY Times articles mentioning the Air Enron scandal: 0
(Via Nexis)
It seems we’re not the only ones monitoring the MSM’s near-total blackout of Air America’s financial shenanigans. New York Times ombudsman Byron Calame (public@nytimes.com) is “closely watching” the Air America story and how [...]

TV Newser asks: “Is Dan Rather leaving CBS?” and points to a Philly Inquirer article yesterday, which prompted one TV Newser e-mailer to comment:
It appears Rather’s departure is forthcoming, and maybe CBS will let him out of his contract before it’s up in January of 2006. The question is where will Rather go? CNN?”
I think [...]

So, the Guardian of London has fired Dilpazier Aslam–the “sassy” terrorist apologist spotlighted here and across the blogosphere. The paper provides background here.
Eursoc is comparing the episode to the CBS/Dan Rather fake memo fiasco and has an excellent recap. Mark Moore takes on the Guardian’s dissembling.
The Daily Ablution led the way in digging into Aslam’s [...]

Drudge has the siren spinning over Newsweek’s refusal to accept reporter Michael Isikoff’s resignation. The magazine is making all macho-like in standing up to supposed White House bullying:
“Mike was told he would not be sacrificed, we are standing behind him 100%,” a top magazine source told the DRUDGE REPORT. “We do not, I repeat, do [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer catches up with a strangely chipper Dan Rather, and Captain Ed finds Gunga Dan a little too gung ho. A snort-worthy must-read!

John Hinderaker of Power Line got this quote from an ABC News source (via Josh Claybourn) on the fishy Schiavo memo first disclosed by ABC News reporter Linda Douglass:
the memo discussed a republican bill and was distributed to repulbican senators. That’s what we reported. we are obviously not going to divulge our multiple sources. [...]

Here’s video of Gunga Dan’s last gasp in case you followed your usual routine and skipped the CBS Evening news.
Here’s the transcript from Ratherbiased.com, which has served us all so well and intrepidly. Thanks, guys.
Power Line examines Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales’ failed attempt to put Rather in a noble light.
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Dan Rather farewell parties

9&10 News, the CBS affiliate for northern Michigan, ran an online poll yesterday to let viewers decide whether Dan Rather’s farewell program should be aired tonight. Today the station’s General Manager, William Kring, abruptly ended the poll, apologizing in an online letter for the embarrassment he caused CBS and promising to run the program. [...]

Garance Franke-Ruta has a ridiculous article in the American Prospect arguing a la Dan Rather that the bloggers who brought down Eason Jordan and exposed RatherGate are partisan Republican activists disguising themselves as independent citizen bloggers.
Don’t waste your time reading the whole thing. This one paragraph is all you need to read to understand where [...]

Dan Rather is signing off on Wednesday. Party planning is underway across the country. Washington Times columnist John McCaslin reports:
Atlanta-based author, pundit and media consultant Phil Kent, former president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, tells this column that he’s hosting a party on the evening of March 9 in the Buckhead section of the city [...]

Just happen to be on sick baby overnight shift and caught The David Letterman Show, which I never usually watch. MSM relic Dan Rather is on his farewell tour and bloviated for a few segments about his 1968 Democratic National Convention scuffles in Chicago, his Deep Thoughts on Iraq, and, yes, the little “error” (too [...]

Get your barf bucket ready before you read this USA Today tribute to Dan Rather:
The recent “Memogate” scandal has made Rather a “piata (sic), with people lining up to whack him with a big stick,” says 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft. “Good journalists always make powerful enemies, and Dan’s are more zealous than most. People [...]

We’ve been tracking the U.N.’s sex scandal in the Congo. But over the weekend, the other U.N. sex scandal came to a head.
Top U.N. official Ruud Lubbers resigned Sunday over long-brewing accusations of sexual harassment from at least four women, including an American woman who worked on the staff UN High Commissioner for [...]

…the disgruntled staffers sing. Ratherbiased.com alerts us to the latest issue of New York magazine, which has an inside look at the internal strife at CBS News. Among the juicy tidbits the magazine revealed, Ratherbiased.com reports:
*Dan Rather has been observed wandering the hallways of CBS News muttering “elections have consequences,” referring to Bush-Kerry presidential [...]

A few weeks ago, I spotlighted the good deeds of our men and women of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group. Now comes word from a writer who says he is a career U.S. Navy officer aboard Abe Lincoln reporting on the tsunami relief vultures swarming the ship:
What really irritated me was a scene [...]