CBS Forgeries: Friday 24 Sept 2004

1. Fake and inaccurate: Like all Guard members, Lt. Bush was required to accrue a minimum of 50 points (annually) to meet Guard service requirements (a minimum of 300 points in six years). What the liberal media may not have covered in their many articles about Lt. Bush's ANG service is that Lt. Bush accumulated 954 points - exceeding the six-year Air National Guard requirement for service - threefold. Of course, everyone knows this, right? All those investigative reporters must have brought this fact out a dozen times. I just must have missed it. (powerlineblog)
2. The Fall: A bankrupt generation is fading away (nationalreview.com)
3. Dan Rather's blunder a threat - to the right: The establishment media's days of leading the national political dialogue may be over. The left is unlikely to simply accept this loss of agenda-setting power. Even before these demonstrations of impotence, there was a growing murmur in liberal circles about the increasing influence of conservative media and the "unfiltered" Internet. (azcentral.com)
4. NEWS Lockhart's Locked Lips (nypost)