ABC IS POINTING OUT RATHER’S SLIPPERINESS: “RATHER DOES NOT MENTION KNOX IS A DEMOCRAT.”

Mickey Kaus: “Judging from tonight’s televised non-retraction by CBS news chief Andrew (‘This is going to hold up’) Heyward, it looks as if CBS will continue to twist slowly, slowly in the wind.”

Mickey’s hope that this will somehow hurt Bush in the polls, however, seems ill-founded.

UPDATE: Dan Rather issues another challenge to his critics!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Michael Richards emails:

What if the Swift Boat Vets had manufactured documents that proved John Kerry did not deserve his Silver Star? And they leaked them to Brit Hume at Fox News who rushed them on the air as part of an expose which included an extended interview with John O’Neill. And what if the left wing bloggers proved the documents to be false? And finally, what if Brit stubbornly stuck to his original story about the Silver Star and said, “The documents don’t have to be real because they accurately reflect the truth.”

How long do you think Brit would have kept his job?

Not very.