I was talking to Charles Johnson yesterday that it just might be time to raise BlogAd rates from their relatively miniscule amounts (given the recent traffic) when I read the latest Blather from Rather ^[1] excerpted from an interview in The New York Observer.

“I think the public, even decent people who may be well-disposed toward President Bush, understand that powerful and extremely well-financed forces are concentrating on questions about the documents because they can’t deny the fundamental truth of the story,” Rather told the paper. [emph mine, obviously]

Well-financed? Who’s he talking about here? VodkaPundit ^[2]? I saw some fancy vintages in his stash. Or Belmont Club ^[3]? Kind of a tony name, isn’t it, and he lives in Australia, maybe even beach front property. No, could be Mr. Johnson ^[4] himself. He’s probably rolling in residuals from all those Al Jarreau ^[5]albums he played backup on years ago. Thanks for clarifying that, Dan. Maybe I will raise those BlogAd rates. It’s a moment of opportunity. A lot of advertisers should be leaving CBS.

MEANWHILE: Some reading matter while waiting for CBS ^[6] to make its statement. (After all, it may take a while).