The blood is in the water,

and most of it (if not all) is CBS'. You might think that the story has already been flogged to death, but the sharks have just started circling. Witnesses are coming out of the woodwork, and some are even suggesting that Dan Rather and CBS, rather than having been duped, knew about the forgeries and went ahead with the report anyway. What I don't understand is why CBS is so doggedly defending its story, faced with so much evidence to the contrary. One would think that if they want to rebuild their reputation for journalistic integrity (now just about universally acknowledged to be in tatters), they'd honestly admit to their error and deal with the consequences.

And while we're on the topic, I don't understand why we're still talking about who did or did not do what during a war that happened 30-odd years ago. Maybe, and I'm no expert, we should be talking about the war that's going on now?

(However, some say that none of this stuff ever happened, so I guess we're free to talk about whatever we want.)