While appearing on the "Larry King Show" last night, nary a word was said after Dan Rather suggested that the "Bush Administration" was manipulating the media, i.e., the "wire services" (and others) in regards to the "accurate number" of causalities being reported in Iraq! To wit, Rather stated, ". . . Larry, let's point out that the administration and one can like it or not like it, they just about convinced the wire services and others [emphasis added] only to carry the killed in actual combat rather than the total number of casualties killed in the country." [more]