A CBS CORRESPONDENT THINKS BLOGGERS AREN’T CAREFUL ENOUGH ABOUT THEIR FACTS: Yeah, you read that right. In other, surely unrelated, news:

Players involved in the notorious 60 Minutes II story, reported by Dan Rather, which employed dubious documents regarding President Bush’s National Guard service, may have been rooting for a John Kerry victory.

No, it wasn’t that old bugaboo liberal media bias as much as it was a bias toward saving their own skins. The report from an internal investigation into the documents mess was purposely being held until after the election.

Pre-election, the feeling in some quarters at CBS was that if Kerry triumphed, fallout from the investigation would be relatively minimal. . . . But now, faced with four more years of President Bush, executives at CBS parent Viacom could take a harder line on the executives involved.

Apparently, someone at CBS believes in preemption.