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Now this is interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Betsy, from the \u201cso-good-you-really-should-check-in-several-times-a-day\u201d Betsyspage<\/span><\/a> reports that Wily-ol-red-headed Tim Russert, for whom (I cannot help it) I have a soft spot, went on Imus in the Morning and delivered a big fat (not really fat, but heavily jowled) bomb: CBS knows gave Mary Mapes the fake docs\u2026and they ain\u2019t sayin\u2019.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes Betsy: (linking from NewsMax<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think the interesting thing is the documents \u2013 where did they come from?\u201d Russert told radio host Don Imus. \u201cSomebody at CBS knows where the documents came from \u2013 and the credibility of that person, and the agenda of that person,\u201d he said.
Taken aback, Imus asked, \u201cSo they all know, in other words?\u201d Russert replied bluntly, \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The NBC newser said it was wrong for Mapes\u2019 boss Dan Rather not to reveal at the outset \u2013 if not the source\u2019s identity, at least the fact that he or she had partisan motives.

Writes Betsy: \u201cWhile Russert supports CBS not giving up a source, he also seems to know that the source is partisan. Perhaps that is why they don\u2019t want to give up the source. They don\u2019t want to admit that they got the documents from someone with Democratic connections and that they rushed fraudulent docs onto the air simply on the say-so of a Democratic source plus a nutball like Burkett. That is the real scandal. If there are connections between the Democrats and the CBS story then there are some real problems and all that the conservatives have always alleged will be proven. How soon before someone leaks the name to Drudge or someone else? How long will the fired four protect CBS?\u201d<\/p>\n

I like that last question Betsy asks because it is one I\u2019m wondering about myself, and so is Jim Geraghty<\/span><\/a>, who asks (scroll down) IS THE NEXT CHAPTER IN RATHERGATE WRONGFUL TERMINATION SUITS? He quotes a passage from Gail Shister of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and notes her closer: \u201cFrom what I\u2019m hearing, the people who got nailed don\u2019t feel like justice was done.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed. One cannot help but raise the eyebrows and repeat Geraghty\u2019s own question like a mantra: Anybody else feel like this is an episode of \u201cLaw and Order\u201d where the guessing game is, which member of the gang will turn on the others and cop a plea first?<\/em>
<\/span>
So, basically, it looks like in the matter of Rathergate, the fat lady did sing\u2026but her aria is not quite finished\u2026or she\u2019s gonna come on and give and encore<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"