More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
In a softball interview on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teed up liberal actor Robert Redford to push propaganda about his latest role as disgraced CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather: “60 Minutes did a piece on George W. Bush and his National Guard service. It was called into question when documents it was based on were thought to perhaps be forgeries. Did you have a viewpoint, once you started reading up on it, going into making the project?”
Using talking points straight from Rather himself, Redford dismissed the scandal “...the whole thing unraveled over what was a small technicality at that time that was blown into major thing. And the bigger story was of course the story that Dan and Mary Mapes were working on about the Air National Guard. And suddenly that got pushed away in favor of this small glitch that became the scandal.”