[Pete]

Meanwhile, a Post photographer snapped Rather leaving his Upper East Side home yesterday flanked by two security guards

At this point, one has to wonder if they are protecting him from himself.

[tx_eggman]

I think he is a first-class guy, a good guy and an honest guy. And yet, there is something about the way he behaves sometimes that makes people suspicious of him, and it's too bad

This about the guy who had the following conversation with Bill O'Reilly

BILL O'REILLY: And I want to ask you flat out. Do you think President Clinton's an honest man?

DAN RATHER: Yes, I think he's an honest man.

O'REILLY: Do you really?

RATHER: I think -- I do. I think he's an honest man.

O'REILLY: Even when he lied to Jim Lehrer's face about the (unintelligible)?

RATHER: Listen, who among us have not lied about something?

O'REILLY: Well, I didn't lie to anybody's face on national television. I don't think you have. Have you?

RATHER: I don't think I ever have. I hope I never have. But look, it's one thing.

O'REILLY: How can you say he's an honest guy, then?

RATHER: Well, because I think he is. I think at core, he's an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so. But I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

It all makes sense in their special little Bizarro world