Eric Dubin | 
When the brouhaha over CBS 60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan’s botched source burst into the news cycle, it was clear the greatest victim would ultimately prove to be truth and an informed American public. Now, whenever the media and much of the American people address the Benghazi topic, the top issue is Lara Logan and CBS 60 Minutes bungling, NOT further investigation into the original cover-up. Nice job, political operatives and psyop agents. You do good work. The sheep have mostly remained oblivious.
If I’m not mistaken, I’m the only one in the American media – on this outpost in the “alternative” media – to make the case that this smelled like a set-up, just as the feeding of Dan Rather flawed and easily debunked documents about George W. Bush probably was a set-up. Thus far, “the fix” worked — twice.
Dan Rather was on CNN’s Peirs Morgan’s show on Monday. Reflecting on the incident that got Rather in hot water back in 2004, he noted: “What the complaint was, was ‘Okay, your story was true, but where you got to the truth was flawed.’ That’s not the case with the Benghazi story. Unfortunately — and there’s no joy in saying it — they were taken in by a fraud.”
Whether Rather realizes it or not, he’s flat-out wrong. His story was no different than Lara Logan’s story when it comes to the big picture and not singular sources or documents. Dan Rather could and should just as easily say regarding Lara Logan’s investigation of Benghazi, “Okay, your story was true, but where you got to the truth was flawed.”
In the grand scheme of things, who the heck cares about some lying, self-aggrandizing man spinning a story about his involvement in Benghazi? Who cares about a venerable reporter screwing up and taking that story without adequate fact checking? That’s NOT the main story! The story is that there has been a cover-up regarding Benghazi and it needs to be investigated. This CBS 60 Minutes affair is a convenient way to change the focus of the discussion as the real story slides down the memory hole.
Click here to read my earlier editorial on this issue. To read RawStory’s coverage of Dan Rather and CNN’s Peirs Morgan talking on Monday – video included – click here.
