Rather out at CBS
What a shame to hear that news. It wasn’t until Rathergate hit that I started blogging. And now the man who made a fool of himself with statements like “If these documents are forgeries, I’d like to break that news” (This coming 2 weeks after Powerline broke the story.) and the unforgettable line where the talk show host asked him if he thought Bill Clinton was an honest man, Rather replied “I believe a man can lie about any number of things and still be an honest man.”
After 44 years, Dan Rather will leave CBS by the end of the month, at the latest, industry sources said Friday. His departure could come as early as next week. Rather, 74, whose contract runs until late November, is working out the final details of his exit agreement, the sources say. Money is not an issue, they say. Among the sticking points: Whether Rather will have access to his archival CBS material.
In other words, it’s all over except the whining, which Rather will surely do.
Anchor of CBS Evening News for a record 24 years until being forced out in March ‘05 by the Memogate scandal, Rather was fighting to stay at the network in some “meaningful” capacity. It was clear that the network wanted him gone.
Maybe he and Mapes can go on the Kos tour, telling their tales of woe to anyone gullible enough to believe anything. The Kos crowd certainly hate Bush enough to believe them.
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June 16th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I’d Rather Be In Philadelphia
Which are the words W.C. Fields supposedly suggested for his own tombstone. Well, oddly enough, from the Philadelphia Inquirer comes another story about Dan Rather's imminent departure from CBS.
Rather, 74, whose contract runs u…
June 16th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Dan Rather Reportedly Out At CBS (UPDATED)
For some time now an eyebrow has been raised over the CBS eye when it came to former news megastar Dan Rather.
June 17th, 2006 at 9:15 am
I know Dan Rather from the letter he replied to when I reminded him, for the upcoming 20th Anniversary commemmoration of the Fall of Saigon, who it was that stayed behind and covered the story for CBS after it’s entire staff fled in the panic. He said he’d bring this to CBS’ attention, producers etc. That was the last I heard from the guy who “venerates the Ed Murrow tradition”—or any of the others who were congratulating themselves over CBS coverage of that ‘Story of the Decade.’