Roberto Navarro, Argentina's top rated news anchor, forced out by alleged government pressure

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2. He does indeed.

The only difference was that whereas this man Navarro was the target of a Putin-style arm-wringing, what Rove did to Rather was a lot more sophisticated.

The little bastard managed to bad-jacket not only America's senior news anchor; but the whole Air Guard deadbeat story itself.

It's a painful memory, really. Having a couple of mid-century Royal typewriters myself, I noticed at the time that the "letter" had been typed on Microsoft Word.

I e-mailed CBS Evening News right away to warn them it couldn't possibly be a 1972 type-written letter - but to no avail (of course, they must have gotten thousands of them).

Having said that, I'm almost glad the Shrub was re-elected (so to speak). Had Kerry won, he would have had to deal with the sub-prime/derivatives debacle instead, which by '04/'05 was already very much in the cards.