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Let me restate, summarize and comment on what Thomas Bray of the Detroit News writes,

"Rather and pals at CBS say they were 'misled.' ... they didn’t ask hard question of sources because, well, they didn’t want to .... The real story is that there was nobody at CBS willing to pull the plug. Mapes worked the story for five years -- a story that doesn’t come together in five years .. good idea to move on.
"The bigger story: the commanding heights of American public opinion — the media, academia and Hollywood — are rendered obsolete, and with them the ideological monopoly of the left. ... the left may still thrill to the messages of Redford, Streisand and Mickey Moore BUT ever since the premier of F911, Bush’s poll numbers have gone up.
"What's going on is the left, purportedly once the home of genuine populism, has totally lost touch with the people and has cowardly retreated into an elitist shell. ... the national media are so well to the left of the public that it's the become the exactly kind of media we used to hear about from the Soviet Union.
"CBS lost HALF its viewers from 1981 to 2001, as Bozwell says in a new book, “Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media,” Bozwell asserts that Hillary Clinton’s “vast right-wing conspiracy” was a pre-emptive strike designed to scare the press into hewing to the liberal line.
"What the episode Rather shows is that there is indeed a conspiracy -- a vast left-wing conspiracy — and like most conspiracies, it’s coming unraveled. ... Coincidentally their “Fortunate Son” ads started appearing just after the “60 Minutes” hit job? Ha! The same Rather was forced to apologize after being caught in 2001 delivering the "I'm a Big Man" speech at a Democratic Almagamated Extortionist's pic-nic fund-raiser in Austin, Texas.
"The real message to Rathers of the world: You don’t count. You never really did, either.. "

Please note that the above is MY REWRITE of the Essay d'Bray. If he wants his own words pure and pristine -- then let us EXCERPT!