Dan Rather Eclipses Kerry and Bush in Presidential Race

Small wonder. Watching Rather squirm under withering media scrutiny is far more interesting than listening to the leaden sppeches of Kerry or the malapropisms of Bushy. Rather and his running mate Martha Stewart are dominating the media in these crucial weeks leading up to the election. The fiasco totally derails the Kerry campaign's effort to depict Bushy as a big, fat liar. Instead, it makes him look like the victim of a libelous smear campaign.
The big question that Rather refuses to answer is, "From whom did you obtain the documents and how much did you pay?" A related question is "Why bother?" Bushy's national guard service of lack thereof is not the most importnat campaign story, unless you are part and parcel of the Kerry campaign. Bush should be challenged by the press on his last four years and his plans for the future. Kerry ought to be made to expand on exactly how he would do better.
Willl CBS follow the example of the NYT and USA Today and clean house and toughen internal controls? It doesn't look like it. In the mantime, Amercia's most trusted television news source remains "The Daily Show."