I'd Rather Not

So, Dan Rather reports what everyone knows, that rich kids, including Gee-Dub, got favorable treatment during Vietnam, and causes a big brouhaha among conservatives who . . . also did not serve in Vietnam. How dare you question his patriotic service, etc., and by the way did you know that John Kerry shot himself? The duality of man, the Jungian thing, sir. Whatever. Anyway, the whole episode was not the least bit interesting. The putative right hollered about liberal bias, and the corporate media went into its predictable defensive crouch. I sometimes wonder if the only people who take citizen journalists more hilariously seriously than those brave scribblers of the interwebs themselves are the traditional media they're supposedly going to displace.

Dan Rather sued, alleging that CBS ran a hatchet job. Rather may never have left the mainstream of political opinion, but the guy was a decent reporter, and empowered with the subpoena and a couple of hot lawyers, he's now uncovered--more hilarity--the network's plan to set up a panel of inquisition consisting of Rush, Ann Coulter, Roger Ailes, ad inf. Can you imagine if they'd gone through with it? I wish they had! That would've made good teevee.