Dan Rather and David Kranz

At any moment, CBS will release a statement to "clarify" the Bush Guards document story. This is the story in which Dan Rather used forged documents to raise questions about President Bush's Air National Guard service. It's fitting to note that Dan Rather is a hero to David Kranz, the dean of South Dakota political reporters. In 1974, Kranz wrote a laudatory column about Dan Rather for the Austin (MN) Daily Herald. The telltale column is pictured below:

Thirty years later, Dan Rather's credibility has been shredded, and David Kranz's credibility has been shredded. What a fitting conclusion to these two posterboys for liberal bias in the mainstream media.