In today's episode of Rathergate...

The latest in "Ra^thergate": Bloggers are getting closer to figuring out who gave Dan Rather the forged memos last week. Go to Rathergate.com, a brand-new blog, or to Powerline, one of the first to start blogging on what is now known as Ra^thergate, or to Wizbang for the whole story on possible suspects. Oh, and here's a good fisking of Rather's pathetic defense.

Lefties are trying to scoff at this, as though it really is only a discussion of the merits of 1970's typewriters vs. Microsoft Word. They say, in effect, "Gee, can't we talk about the real issues?"

But this IS one of the real issues, of course. A democracy depends upon free and trustworthy media. Old Media once again has shown that it can't be trusted, and that it will do anything - lie, spin, stonewall - to hurt President Bush, while giving John F. Kerry a free pass on:

not releasing all his service records

not releasing his medical records

not releasing his wife's tax returns

not discussing his role as an anti-war protestor or self-proclaimed war criminal

not discussing his decades-long career in the Senate

In addition, the media:

at first tried to kill the Swift Vets for Truth story

now falsely claims that the Swift Boat Vets have been discredited

has enabled Kerry to get away with his lies about Christmas-in-Cambodia

is giving him a break on not meeting face-to-face with the press for over 40 days now (and counting)

I would post links to all these line items but just don't have the time right now. Maybe later. Anyway, you can read all the links I do have, and then start calling your local CBS stations asking what they're doing about this shameful failure of Mainstream Media. Call your local NBC and ABC stations, too, to ask if they're going to cover the downfall of CBS.