September 25, 2004

Outrage

In some circles, Dan Rather is public enemy #1. CBS affiliates around the country are receiving thousands of emails and faxes from wingnuts outraged citizens insisting that Rather be canned because of allegedly forged documents.

You'll notice these same people haven't mounted an email campaign against the Bush Administration for using forged documents* to gain public support for the invasion of Iraq.

Let's compare the results, Bush v. Rather, from the use of documents of questionable provenance:

U.S. soldiers killed:
Bush: 1,043+
Rather: 0

Other military deaths:
Bush: 135+
Rather: 0

Military wounded:
Bush: 7,290+
Rather: 0

Civilian dead:
Bush: 12,000+
Rather: 0

Cost to U.S. taxyapers:
Bush: $200 billion
Rather: 0

Yeah, I wonder how Dan Rather can sleep at night.

Indeed. From the Mahablog.


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