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Last week, amid increasing questions about my sanity, CBS News publicly vowed to re-examine the phony documents we at CBS News were using to bring down the Bush Presidency. And we promised to ourselves that we would never let the American public know what this examination turned up, whatever the outcome.

Now, after extensive additional interviews with myself, I no longer have the confidence in my own mental competence, nor the journalistic integrity of CBS News, and so I can no longer continue vouching for the truth of what we put on the air. I find I have been misled on the key question of just how crazily partisan I really am. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press about my honesty and mental stability, leads me to a point where � if I knew then what I know now � I would not have gone ahead as the anchor of a nightly newscast and I certainly would not have used my audience for blatantly partisan purposes.

But we did use our audience and the American people. We made a mistake in overlooking the power of the blogosphere, and for that I am truly sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of anti-Republican bias without fear of criticism from my colleagues in the mainstream media.

Please know that nothing remains more important to us than electing Democrats to national office, the people's trust be damned. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack