How apropos of you... Bringing up a story from 2004 to justify all the lies, misinformation and swiftboating that have occurred under the Right-Wing-Nut tent and still the Right-Wing-Nut parade goes on-a marching, carrying their bull-crap banners of nonsense.

On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited “exclusive information, including documents” to justify major CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s

The documents weren't there but where's the mendacity in this paragraph?

With all the wingnut crowing about CBS and 60 Minutes, you'd think they blew the s...

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How apropos of you... Bringing up a story from 2004 to justify all the lies, misinformation and swiftboating that have occurred under the Right-Wing-Nut tent and still the Right-Wing-Nut parade goes on-a marching, carrying their bull-crap banners of nonsense.

On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited “exclusive information, including documents” to justify major CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s

The documents weren't there but where's the mendacity in this paragraph?

With all the wingnut crowing about CBS and 60 Minutes, you'd think they blew the story that Bush had been AWOL. Fact is, CBS got one piece of evidence wrong, from a while truckload of evidence.

Fact is, the Associated Press did the most work on the issue, filing a whole slew of FOIA requests and lawsuits to get the necessary docs. Salon summarized their findings.

Upon being accepted for pilot training, Bush promised to serve with his parent (Texas) Guard unit for five years once he completed his pilot training.

But Bush served as a pilot with his parent unit for just two years.

In May 1972 Bush left the Houston Guard base for Alabama. According to Air Force regulations, Bush was supposed to obtain prior authorization before leaving Texas to join a new Guard unit in Alabama.

But Bush failed to get the authorization.

In requesting a permanent transfer to a nonflying unit in Alabama in 1972, Bush was supposed to sign an acknowledgment that he received relocation counseling.

But no such document exists.

He was supposed to receive a certification of satisfactory participation from his unit.

But Bush did not.

He was supposed to sign and give a letter of resignation to his Texas unit commander.

But Bush did not