Dan Rather on Bush report: ‘We reported a true story—that’s why I’m no longer with CBS News’

Yahoonews ^ | 5/2/2012 | Dylan Stableford

[Signalman]

Dan Rather, former "CBS Evening News" host and current star of Mark Cuban's HDNet, has been out promoting his new book, "Rather Outspoken."

In an interview with Piers Morgan on Tuesday, Rather recalled the last conversation he had with George W. Bush after his controversial 2004 CBS News report on the former president's Air National Guard service record.

"I was at the White House for a briefing for reporters, and I asked him a couple of questions and he answered the questions," Rather said. "And then afterward he said to me, 'I hope you'll be happy retired in Austin.' That's my home. I had no intention of retiring in Austin. I have a passion for my work and I plunged myself back into doing work. But that's the only conversation I've had with him since."

Rather also defended the report that led to the end of his network news career.

"We reported a true story," he said. "That's why I'm no longer with CBS News."

[maine yankee]

“Ah, but the Bush story! That’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that’s where I . . . . “

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Except Rather never had balls-—steel or any other.

[Interesting Times]

Captain Dan the Newsman seems a tad confused. Perhaps this will help:

Rather's Ruin and the Rise of the Pajamahadeen

[DJlaysitup]

roflol... De Nile, it’s not just a river in Egypt.

Haha! Agreed! The old fool was proven...PROVEN...wrong and he still can't admit failure. What a self-centered jerk. He may have done some decent work as a young man...but he aged poorly.

[Wings-n-Wind]

DAN RATHER needs to change his last name to DAN BROWN....
Since he is so perpetually full of sh*t....

Pardon blunt assessment...

[C. Edmund Wright]

“Ahh but the strawberries....”

".....courage.......courage......."

[Chode]

feh... you're no longer at cBS cause you're crazier than a sh!thouse RAT!!!

[Rocky]

Dan should spend the rest of his life helping OJ find the “real killer.”

[SkyDancer]

It was absolutely unquestionably true .... but false.

[SuziQ]

"We reported a true story," he said. "That's why I'm no longer with CBS News."

Still delusional, after all these years.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've just got one word for ya,Dan....

COURAGE!

[RedMDer]

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Please click the link.
The Republic you save may be your own.

[TChad]

First his credibility, then his sanity. Dan gave it all to advance the left’s agenda.

[Autonomous User]

[Army Air Corps]

Baghdad Bob was more entertaining than ol’ Dan.