[My back yard]

DAN RATHER, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: I know that this story is true. I believe that the witnesses and the documents are authentic. We wouldn't have gone to air if they would not have been. There isn't going to be -- there's no -- what you're saying apology?

QUESTION: Apology or any kind of retraction or...

RATHER: Not even discussed, nor should it be. I want to make clear to you, I want to make clear to you if I have not made clear to you, that this story is true, and that more important questions than how we got the story, which is where those who don't like the story like to put the emphasis, the more important question is what are the answers to the questions raised in the story, which I just gave you earlier.

[My back yard]

They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that the documents were authentic.

[weegee]

Dan Rather might go back on heroin after this if he loses his job.

[hershey]

Fog, fog, fog, fog, etc.. Rather and Kerry, both on life support. Pull the plug, CBS.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

... the more important question is what are the answers to the questions raised in the story, which I just gave you earlier.

With this remark, Rather has laid to rest any remaining questions as to his objectivity as a reporter. The important question, according to him, is not the authenticity of the material, but the questions raised in the story.

Okay, why don't I forge some documents stating that Dan Rather is a pedophilic rapist, and see whether he thinks the authenticity of the source is less important than the questions raised in the story?

[coconutt2000]

There's a memo signed by Dan Rather that his "unfortunate truth" is that he is a gay American.

Handwriting experts have verified that the type on the document is authentic. The intern in the copy room has verified the signature, and an anonymous source has verified that Dan Rather has been observed meeting with Governor McGreevey of New Jersey. Gov. McGreevey has commented that he has met with Dan Rather on several occasions.

There will be no apology for this allegation... and the authenticity of the documents cannot be questioned. /satire

[Howlin]

Dan Rather, last man standing.

[Amelia]

RATHER: ...I want to make clear to you if I have not made clear to you, that this story is true, and that more important questions than how we got the story, which is where those who don't like the story like to put the emphasis, the more important question is what are the answers to the questions raised in the story, which I just gave you earlier.

Au contraire, if he can't prove that the story is true, questions raised by the story are quite irrelevant.

I'm sure that if I raised a story about Dan Rather, he wouldn't worry at all about the questions raised by my story unless the quality of my "evidence" was impeccable.