Grandma's House

From The Corner:

WASHINGTON--- House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) today called on CBS News to retract its September 8 story calling President Bush's National Guard record into question. According to numerous press reports, CBS based its reporting on documents that it cannot prove are factual. Blunt also asks CBS to reveal the identities of the people he says have used the network "to deceive [its] viewers in the final weeks of a presidential election."

"To date, CBS's response to the specific and devastating criticisms of the accuracy of its reporting has been to question the motives of its critics, to offer half-truths in its own defense, to refuse to disclose crucial evidence, and to circle the wagons," Blunt writes.

Blunt gathered 40 signatures of his colleagues on the letter sent to CBS President Andrew Heyward today.

I completely agree that CBS needs to formally retract the story. The documents have been totally debunked, and they need to admit they were wrong to run with a story with such dubious fact-checking. At the same time, I don't see CBS revealing the source or sources of these documents. They will scream "First Amendment", even though they would be justified to name the scofflaw who set them up.