The CBS News assault on Vice President George Bush led by Dan Rather and aired on the CBS Evening News on January 25 was planned, scripted and rehearsed like a secret military operation. CBS worked on it for over a month according to Rather himself. We don't know if it had a code name, but "Bush whacker" would be fitting, since the purpose of the operation was clearly to deliver a damaging blow to the Bush campaign for the Republican presidential nomination "as close to the actual Iowa) caucus date as possible," to quote from a letter CBS News sent...