Rather:  We were, um, made vulnerable on the documents which, by the way, let me also point out, nobody has ever proven the documents are, quote, fraudulent or that they were fakes, as some people have written.

Don't worry Dan. If you lawsuit goes to trial, the document will be proven to be a forgery a court of law by a preponderence of the evidence.  You see Dan, Microsoft Word was not around in the 1960s.

what's the name of that river in egypt?

...and no one has ever PROVEN that photosynthesis really works!  It's still just a theory.

Like a football game, you have (1) the actual game, and then (2) what the commentators say about it. At the end of the year, they only count wins and losses. No one cares about what the commentators say. When it comes to politics, however, the media only cares about what the media says about events, and the events fade into the background. The media, which makes money in the opinion business, are always trying to disconnect perceptions from reality.

The media also knows that the farther removed we are from the actual event, the easier it is to manipulate perceptions about it. Plus, now we have a few years of young people, easy to manipulate, who weren't paying attention when the story rolled around the first time. Before the alternative media came along, the mainstream media could wait until our collective memory faded, and then they could discuss past events with their spin unchallenged. That stuff doesn't work anymore.

Dan Rather was also involved with "The Wall Within" about Vietnam Vets.  B. G. Burkett who wrote "Stolen Valor" was able to determine that much of what was reported in the documentary was false.  This shouldn't be too surprising, considering Cronkite worked for CBS, and his reporting on the Tet Offensive was also not accurate.

Here is a quote from the below link.

"The Wall Within was hailed by critics who — like the Washington Post's Tom Shales — gushed that the documentary was "extraordinarily powerful." There was just one problem: Almost none of it was true. The truth was uncovered by B.G. Burkett, a Vietnam veteran and author of Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History (with Glenna Whitley). Burkett discovered that only one of the vets had actually served in combat. Steve Southards, who'd claimed to be a 16-year-old Navy SEAL assassin, had actually served as an equipment repairman stationed far from combat. Later transferred to Subic Bay in the Philippines, Steve spent most of his time in the brig for repeatedly going AWOL. And George Gruel, who claimed he was traumatized by the sight of his friend being chopped to pieces by a propeller? Navy records reveal that a propeller accident did take place on the Ticonderoga when Gruel was aboard — but that he wasn't around when it happened. During Gruel's tour, the ship had been converted to an antisubmarine warfare carrier which operated, not on "secret mission" along the Vietnam coast, but on training missions off the California coastline. Nevertheless, Burkett notes, Gruel receives $1,952 a month from the Veterans Administration for "psychological trauma" related to an event he only heard about. Mikal Rice — the anguished vet who claimed to have cradled his dying buddy in his arms — actually spent his tour as a guard with an MP company at Cam Ranh Bay. He never saw combat. Neither did Terry Bradley, who was not the "fighting sergeant" he'd claimed to be. Instead, military records reveal he served as an ammo handler in the 25th Infantry Division and spent nearly a year in the stockade for being AWOL. That's good news for the hundreds of Vietnamese civilians Bradley claimed to have slaughtered. But it doesn't say much for Dan Rather's credibility. "

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/morse200409150552.asp

"Well I got nothing against the press.  They wouldn't print it if it wasn't true"  'Sunday Papers'

He's made worse statements. I remember when Rather-gate was going full force, and he was still in defense mode. He basically said something to the effect of "It doesn't matter if the documents are fake. What's in them is true, and that's the only thing that matters."

I really hope CBS doesn't wimp out and lets this go to trial.

<grabbing Dan by the collar><slap>Dan!<slap>Dan!<slap>Wake up Dan!<slap>We're going down in flames and now's not the time to be dreaming!<SLAPSLAPSLAP>

(sorry, no </slap>s here...)

 DAN! It's not our responsibility to prove your report wrong -

It was your responsibility in the first place to prove it was true!

<dropping Dan and grabbing a stiff drink>

<Dan sinks to floor, mumbling, "But I'm too good to be challenged; nobody should be doing that to me; look at what a victim I am; pay me">

All observers exit stage left; lights dim as Dan crumbles in a heap. As we fade to black, we hear whimpering in the dark.

We walk out, not caring.

THE END