Martyrs of the Memogate report

Powerline has a series of posts reacting to the CBS report on Memogate. 

What they leave out, Pundit Guy picks up (link via Chrenkoff).

Perhaps surprisingly, the Posse has little to add.  This is a feeding-frenzy for bloggers, with ample opportunity to demonstrate the gaping problems of logic, denial and hypocrisy at CBS.

The most important problem is, as others have noted, that CBS can't bring itself to call the forged documents forgeries.  Dan Rather and Mary Mapes are unrepentant.  This is important because it demonstrates the increasing disconnent between leftist Bush-haters and reality.

The memos must have been true, otherwise Bush would have honorably served.

And we all know that that is a clear impossibility.

The Posse has dealt with people like this before on message boards.  One irate poster absolutely refused to believe Bush ever flew a jet aircraft.  He was simply "too stupid" to do it.

Even when presented with incontrovertible evidence that George W. Bush was in fact a pilot, said poster reiterated that it was all lies, and that even the official flight logs were doctored by shadowy Bush family agents.

The eye-witnesses were paid off.

In essence, it was a monumental case of denial, unlike anything we had ever seen before.

The hatred of George W. Bush at CBS isn't a side-effect of aggressive news reporting; it isn't part of the normal adversarial relationship between government and the press; it is an article of faith that borders on pathology.

The Posse will dissent from the prevailing orthodoxy in much of the blogosphere commentary.

We believe Rather, Mapes and Co. will continue to thrive in the news and entertainment business.

So corrupt, so pervasive is the hatred of Bush in the mainstream press that their ouster over this memo will be seen in certain circles as a badge of honor.

They will not be treated as charlatans and frauds, they will be lionized as heroes who dared to take down the Bush 2004 Juggernaut.

They are in fact the first media suicide bombers.  They will probably not be the last.