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Thursday, March 31, 2011

OMG: Charles Johnson now claims Rather didn't know Bush memos were false

One of the events that put the blogosphere on the map seven years ago was the takedown of CBS News anchor Dan Rather for using falsified memos regarding George W. Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam era. The blogger who led that charge was Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson.

Now Tim Blair reports that someone is claiming that CBS News wasn't pushing something they knew to be false. That someone is none other than a reformed Charles Johnson.

That someone is reborn leftoid Charles Johnson, whose involvement in the case helped bring down Rather. He seems to regret it. As Daedalus reports:

Charles is now distancing himself … he is disavowing his role …

Charles Johnson, you are the new Dan Rather.

As long as Charles insists on riding the Way Back Machine, here's hoping he goes all the way back to being a Jazz musician who occasionally blogs about computer issues. Watching him do politics has become too painful to bear.

Labels: blogosphere, Charles Johnson, Dan Rather, Little Green Footballs, Tim Blair

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