To: Travis McGee; RatherBiased.com
How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York? Vague memory...what was that about?
12 posted on
09/10/2004 8:36:16 PM PDT by
Shermy
To: Shermy
11 Sep 1987 After a tennis match seemed to be running long, [Rather] walks off the set of CBS Evening News at the start of broadcasting, leaving dead air for seven minutes. Walter Cronkite: "I would have fired him. There's no excuse for it."
16 posted on
09/10/2004 8:56:39 PM PDT by
xJones
To: Shermy
George H. W. Bush b!tch slapped Rather with that one as a riposte in a hostile interview. It staggered Rather.
17 posted on
09/10/2004 9:02:36 PM PDT by
Travis McGee
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