No political motivation at CBS? This is like denying you can breath oxygen on Earth. It’s wrong for Thornburgh and Boccardi, or anyone else, to minimize the obvious liberal agenda behind what Dan Rather and others were trying to do to George Bush’s electoral chances last September. In a race in which John Kerry was touting his military service in Vietnam as making him a superior commander-in-chief to Bush, CBS’s zeal on this Bush-bashing story with a Bush-hating source cannot be dismissed as merely a search for a ratings boost, as if the President were Michael Jackson or Scott Peterson.