It was a blogger who first brought to the attention of the nation that the memo's cited by CBS as proof of President Bush's dereliction of duty were forgeries.  It was CBS that defended those documents until there was no possible way for the network to maintain credibility and to continue to defend the forgeries.  Now, Dan Rather has acknowledged that there is not enough evidence to continue that support and that CBS may have been duped.   Notice, he has not admitted that the forgeries are forgeries or that he was involved except as a "victim".  How Democratic of him.

The truth is that he had to have seen the fax address at the top of at least one of the documents. Others did.  That address was a Kinkos near the home of Bill Burkett, a man known to have ties to the Kerry campaign.  As a Texan and a dyed in the wool Democrat, Rather would have known this.  Yet he did not question the source?  Rather has particpated in at least one Democratic fundraiser in Texas with his Democrat activist daughter (can anyone say conflict of interest???) so he surely is familiar with the workings and workers in that party in his home state.

Then, Rather has the nerve to state that he was simply supporting the CBS value of "investigative reporting without fear of favoritism". 

Bernard Goldberg laid all this out in his book "Bias".  The mainline media is elitist and biased but deny it.  Some of them don't even realize it.  That is even more scary than if they knew what they were doing.  But in Rather's case, I think the evidence is clear.  He had to know since all this centers around Texas and he is a Texan who definitely understands Texas politics and Texas politicians. 

Now is the time for Rather to step down.  Beyond that, it is time for the entire management structure of CBS to be torn apart and rebuilt.  And while we are at it, lets see the same thing at NBC and ABC.  We have a right to unbiased, objective journalism.  This is the time to make that happen.