本来是要在一草博文“

跟贴答复gmuoruo兄的，可是无论如何都发不成。只好贴在这里了：

（先向一草博致歉和致谢，借用贵宝地多多！）

gmuoruo兄，交换至此，我想我们可以“Agree to disagree”。

Dan Rather 被CBS逼辞固然是“铁板钉钉”的历史事实，但却一丁点儿不能说明究竟内幕如何。“替罪羊”或“舍车保帅”是历史上永远的戏目。

Killian documents虽然被证实是伪造的，这是否是个设局并没有被任何人肯定或否定。尽管如此，文件所提出的小布希在National Guard受到一些特殊对待，例如未完成训练要求等等，现在都证明是“铁板钉钉”事实存在的，我就在这里再引一次的：

Bush had completed five years, four months, and five days toward his six-year service obligation.

In September 2004, Lawrence Korb, an Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan, after reviewing the payroll records for Bush's last two years of service, concluded that they indicated that Bush did not fulfill his obligations and could have been ordered to active duty as a result.

至于是不是Dan Rather 未经查证就报道，请看下面的段落：

CBS investigations prior to airing the segment[edit]

Mapes and her colleagues began interviewing people who might be able to corroborate the information in the documents, while also retaining four forensic document experts, Marcel J. Matley, James J. Pierce, Emily Will, and Linda James, to determine the validity of the memos.

On September 5, CBS interviewed Killian's friend Robert Strong, who ran the Texas Air National Guard administrative office. Among other issues covered in his interview with Rather and Mapes, Strong was asked if he thought the documents were genuine. Strong stated, "they are compatible with the way business was done at the time. They are compatible with the man that I remember Jerry Killian being."^[37] Strong had first seen the documents twenty minutes earlier and also said he had no personal knowledge of their content;^[38] he later claimed he had been told to assume the content of the documents was accurate.^[39]

On September 6, CBS interviewed General Robert "Bobby" Hodges, a former officer at the Texas Air National Guard and Killian's immediate superior at the time. Hodges declined CBS' request for an on-camera interview, and Mapes read the documents to him over the telephone. According to Mapes, Hodges agreed with CBS's assessment that the documents were real, and CBS reported that Hodges stated that these were "the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time."^[40] However, according to Hodges, when Mapes read portions of the memos to him he simply stated, "well if he wrote them, that's what he felt," and he claims he never confirmed the validity of the content of the documents. General Hodges later asserted to the investigatory panel that he told Mapes that Killian had never, to his knowledge, ordered anyone to take a physical and that he had never been pressured regarding Lieutenant Bush, as the documents alleged.^[41] Hodges also claims that when CBS interviewed him, he thought the memos were handwritten, not typed,^[42] and following the September 8 broadcast, when Hodges had seen the documents and heard of claims of forgery by Killian's wife and son, he was "convinced they were not authentic" and told Rather and Mapes on September 10.^[43]

Dan Rather在CBS前后共43年包括24年CBS Evening News 主播，多次获 Emmy Awards， Peabody Awards, 和若干大学荣誉学位，如果他真是不称职的，恐怕连2年4个月也做不下来！

对重要事件的报道是媒体人义不容辞的责任，不能因为报道可能对某一政党或公职人员有负面影响就认为是故意跟他们过不去甚至恶意攻击。例如Dan Rather对Abu Ghraib的非法非人道的酷刑的报道就不能说是跟小布希过不去吧？ 

再说一遍，我们就Agree to disagree吧。