To this day, former star CBS anchor Dan Rather stubbornly refuses to admit fault over his flawed 2004 report alleging that then-President George W. Bush received special treatment from the military to avoid serving in Vietnam.
The only problem: the documents the august anchor based his report on were unverified, and their authenticity could not be confirmed (that’s a nice way of saying they were pretty much thoroughly debunked). Rather’s illustrious career pretty much came to an end at that point—as it should have—and it was a major wake-up call to the American public about just how biased our media had become.
He set out to destroy a president he didn’t like, and he didn’t care whether the facts backed him up or not.
We find ourselves in a similar situation now, as CBS News and their once-gloried flagship “60 Minutes” show were caught in an…
