Irreplaceable

Walter Cronkite, who harshly criticized Dan Rather in 1987 for walking off the set, now says in Details that Rather's report on George Bush's National Guard Service was a major screw-up, far beyond any mistakes Cronkite made.

No comment. Let the CBS investigation continue. I just want to say, now that we have a little perspective, that the worst part of the scandal was the arrogance of Rather and CBS--they'd been caught in an obvious fraud, and rather than investigating and figuring out (in about two minutes) the documents were no good, and humbly ask for forgiveness, they imperiously stood behind their story because they were important and their attackers were agenda-driven nobodies.

By the way, have they called Ohio yet?