{"id":118,"date":"2004-09-15T01:02:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T06:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=118"},"modified":"2004-09-15T01:02:05","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T06:02:05","slug":"rathergate-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/15\/rathergate-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Rathergate part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not getting any better for Dan Rather and CBS. In fact, it&#8217;s looking a lot worse, and even a little bit more weird.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe fundamental conclusion, though, seems to be that the documents are forged, and it&#8217;s really a question of where they came from in the first place. CBS&#8217; star witness, Marcel Matley, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsforbush.com\/mt\/archives\/002053.html\">denied authenticating<\/a> the memos for CBS in a telephone interview with the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. (Via Blogs for Bush, Power Line, Instapundit, TAM, &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/007837.php\">weird twist<\/a> that Power Line dug up, too. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmind.com\/mt-test\/archives\/015598.html\">TAM<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not getting any better for Dan Rather and CBS. In fact, it&#8217;s looking a lot worse, and even a little bit more weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalismation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-1U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}