"No Political Bias"

I just watched the CBS Evening News Without Dan Rather (it was given to Bob Schieffer to face the camera tonight), and one of their first pronouncements was that the report found no evidence of political bias. They interviewed Thornburgh and Boccardi, who of course said the same thing for the camera.

And that's the reason CBS is so happy with the report, and why it'll once again be up to New Media to drive the truth home: the report marshals evidence that supports a conclusion -- political bias was present at many levels in CBS News -- that the authors were loath to enunciate. This gives CBS and their allies cover for rejecting charges of political bias, and yet their embrace of this patently false conclusion also strengthens the impression that they want neither to fix their broken system nor address the corporate culture that makes liberal bias a way of life for many in the MSM.

Update: La Shawn Barber has a long list of blogs featuring commentary on Rathergate.

Update II: John Hinderaker at Power Line, who was on with Brit Hume and CBS tonight, has posted some thoughts after finishing the report. In effect, he believes that the contents of the report support finding CBS, and Mary Mapes in particular, guilty of political bias, but says CBS refused to declines to make those conclusions concrete. I'd only add that, like the MSM in general, the authors of the report have chosen to ignore evidence that (in this case) they themselves gathered and presented.