Targeting George Zimmerman: Edit-Gate Worse Than Rathergate: The media dishonestly going after the president of the United States is wrong, but it goes with the territory, and the target in that case is the most powerful man in the world. That is something completely different from the media using lies and half-baked information to label as racist and a liar a private citizen while he's in hiding for fear of his life.
In the final months leading up to the 2004 presidential election, the CBS program "60 Minutes Wednesday" aired a hit-job about then-President George W. Bush's record in the Texas Air National Guard using documents that were quite easily exposed by new media as fraudulent. After this fraud was laid bare, for days the scandal became one of the biggest stories in the country, and as a result of an internal investigation, a number of CBS employees lost their jobs.
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