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The word on the web has come in on Dan Rather and CBS's statements from earlier today. National Review's Jim Geraghty has a roundup of responses CBS affiliates are sending to his readers. Allah Pundit doesn't buy CBS's claims to have acted "in good faith." INDC Journal doubts that Bill Burkett was the only one involved with passing on the forgeries to CBS. Worth noting is that Ben Barnes apparently came forward to CBS before the network had obtained its phony documents. How could that have happened unless Barnes had some knowledge of them independent of CBS? David Frum argues that the Kerry campaign would not have been so stupid as to pass off such obvious fakes. We're inclined to agree, although that does not exonerate Texas Democrats. Michele at A Small Victory thinks Burkett is just a patsy.
The Spoons Experience points out a number of flaws in Dan's apology, as does Stefan Sharkansky. Andrew Sullivan thinks Rather should resign. Dean Esmay thinks CBS hasn't apologized sufficiently. Cori Dauber at Ranting Profs thinks that CBS needs to apologize for its arrogant posturing after critics began pointing out the many flaws behind its story.
Josh Marshall wonders why CBS ran the story to begin with, if CBS believes the documents could not be authenticated, although that seems to us like a bit of ex post facto reasoning. Oliver Willis, meanwhile, can't help himself from bashing FNC in a story about CBS's blunders. Nick Confessore thinks bloggers shouldn't gloat. Kevin Drum takes a just the facts ma'am approach. Kos has nothing to say about the matter.
Jay Rosen thinks CBS could have saved itself a lot of trouble had it paid more attention to online publications and blogs. The Media Drop has links to CBS's official statements here and here.
Ace of Spades has two top ten lists on the matter: "Top Ten New CBS News Slogans," and "Top Ten Dan Rather 'Folksy Texas Sayings' About What Went Wrong." Also see Dave Konig's parody of tonight's "Evening News."
UPDATE: Fox News reports that Dan Rather says he "feels like hell" after the Memogate debacle.
UPDATE: The Freepers of FreeRepublic.com, the site that first questioned CBS's Sept. 8 report, are running a live thread during tonight's "Evening News." Meanwhile, their rivals over at Democratic Underground are having a hot debate over the Memogate controversy.
