In a move that surprised nearly no one, CBS and Dan Rather have finally apologized for using the forged National Guard memos as the basis for their story…well, sort of. Instead of admitting that the documents are forgeries, Rather said, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically.” And instead of admitting that they didnt research the authenticity well enough, they claim that they were misled” about where the documents came from. (You can read more about the actual source of the documents in this story.) Ill stop giving you the blow-by-blow, since Im just sick of listen to Rather and CBS trying to spin this story to make it look not as bad for them. Its just desperate and sad.
My good friend Mike also sent me a link to a side-by-side comparison between the forged National Guard memos and similar memos which are verified as authentic. With all the discussions about what typewriters or typesetting devices could possibly have produced the memos in question, its important to see exactly how inaccurate the forged memos actually were, and how the source in question could have done a much better job using just a 1970s typewriter.
