Nice try again Jack.
Perhaps you are "clinging" to the hope of the left and have not bothered to follow up on the facts.(again) :)
From CBS News:
"(CBS) Four CBS News employees, including three executives, have been ousted for their role in preparing and reporting a disputed story about President Bush’s National Guard service.

The action was prompted by the report of an independent panel that concluded that CBS News failed to follow basic journalistic principles in the preparation and reporting of the piece. The panel also said CBS News had compounded that failure with a “rigid and blind” defense of the 60 Minutes Wednesday report.

Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated.

“We deeply regret the disservice this flawed 60 Minutes Wednesday report did to the American public, which has a right to count on CBS News for fairness and accuracy,” said CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves.

Jack,
You may have forgotten that McCain immediately and strenously condemned the Swift Boat ads (even though his friend Colonel Bud Day was part of it) and called upon the White House to do the same.
His position has been consistent and not based on political advantage. I cannot say the same for General Clark.

Andrea

The Swiftboat Veterans were Kerry's fellow officers who were witness to Kerry's conduct in Vietnam. But even that, I think, would have been to let slide had not Kerry returned to civilian life and gone to Capitol Hill to denegrate his brothers in arms. His testimony was a filthy lie and was largely responsible for the treatment of Vietnam Vets when they finally came home. I was there. I heard him. IF there is justice in the next life, his lies and the lives he destroyed and maligned with those outrageous, self-serving, publicity-hunting LIES will be answered for. Some of us put John Kerry right up there beside Jane Fonda as a despicable excuse for a human being. He had no honor and the veterans who also never forgot Kerry's lies against them personally and Kerry's demeaning their service to this country, and t had every right to speak up. Bud Day and his fellows were merely telling the truth about a time, I'm sure, Kerry wished everyone would forget. But they didn't forget and neither did I. I know several retired military folks who never paid attention to politics, but when Kerry became the nominee they registered and voted. Their feelings about that man ran (run) deep and those feelings are the same kind of visceral feeling one has for any betrayer.

Kerry, like Clark, isn't fit to shine John McCain's or Bud Day's shoes.

Clark acts as though McCains claim to the Presidency is based purely on his heroic service in Vietnam & conveniently ignores the 25 years McCain spent in Congress constantly dealing with national security matters.
McCain may no longer be in the service, but he has most definitely been involved in crucial decisions. Over the last 5 years, his military judgement has proven to be better than that of many of our Generals. McCain put his career on the line for the Surge (which, at one point, was actually called The McCain Surge) and has already taken it upon himself to shoulder CinC level responsibilities.
Obama meanwhile has changed his position on the war about a dozen times and is unconcerned by, and lies about major errors in judgement (for example: saying -more than once- that the Surge would do nothing to significantly reduce causualties - then claiming he never said it.)

Andrea

compared to John McCain's. No wonder Clark got fired from his last post--I've a feeling he made general via sneaky, back-stabbing techniques (and don't we all know someone who got the promotion through just such a method?). Arrogant, dishonorable piece of pond scum. (so do you all want to know how I really feel?)