As this article notes, Dan Rather and CBS are not the only members of the MSM who have either not done their homework or are glossing over a key detail of Kerry's naval record.
The MSM is obssessed with parsing every word of Bush's TANG documentation for a gotcha, yet no one noticed that Kerry's enlistment contract shows he enlisted in the inactive US Naval Reserve, not the US Navy as his online Bio claims.
I recall it was just as difficult to get a slot in the Naval Reserves as it was the Air National Guard. Why hasn't the MSM asked the obvious question?
How did John Kerry get an officer's slot in the Naval Reserves?
(hat tip to Instapundit)