So, we’ve got to go on an Easter egg hunt.

First stop, yesterday’s column. The Amazing Froomkin has this to say about Rather’s suit, in great contrast to chinless wonder Teabag Fred’s winger-rampant and disinformation-ridden Op-Ed page. Let me just fair-use the whole paragraph:

Dan Rather Watch

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters marvels at the reaction to Dan Rather’s lawsuit, specifically from all the “mainstream journalists who rushed in to denounce the former anchorman as dishonest, arrogant, bitter, and delusional, all the while making sure not to take up Rather’s challenge of addressing the underlying facts of the story surrounding Bush’s no-show military service.”

And the key point that Teabag Fred’s service providers conveniently omit:

Writes Boehlert: “[T]he dirty little secret that [winger] bloggers and mainstream journalists don’t want to discuss is that Rather is right — the National Guard story was true.”

We were never defeated on the merits of the story. Not ever. If CBS caved for business reasons after Federalist Society operative F/Buckheard fired off his Rovian triple-bankshot on serifs, that’s not our problem—except insofar as Bush got selected again, because our famously free press happily accepted any excuse to drop the story, of course.

Second stop, the long Googled list of Froomkin’s exhaustive posting—thank The God(ess)(e)(s) of Your Choice for Froomkin:

For more background, here’s some of my own coverage of the controversy over Bush’s service.

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