Posted on 09/26/2004 7:58:03 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
NEW YORK -- The morning after Dan Rather admitted the biggest mistake of his career, he agreed to go on Larry King's primetime show and talk about the worst crisis ever to strike a network news anchor.
Rather, after all, is used to doing exactly as he pleases, enjoying a status that only a dozen or so have in the history of television news.
But in a sign that his movements are now constricted, Rather's people abruptly pulled out of the King interview. CNN says his appearance was confirmed and it had already begun airing promos. Insiders at CBS say they never made any promises and that, ultimately, the front office didn't want Rather on King's show.
Rather may be a tenacious fighter, but it's not clear if he'll be able to survive the scandal over a botched "60 Minutes II" story impugning President Bush (news - web sites)'s National Guard service record.
If he were done in, it would mark the first time an anchor has resigned under such gloomy circumstances.
Industryites roundly agree that even more damaging than the Sept. 8 segment itself was Rather's repeated defense of the story, which put forth new documents and information positing that Bush used his family clout to avoid his Guard duties.
"I know that this story is true," Rather said two days after the segment aired. "I believe that the witnesses and the documents are authentic." [snip]
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Nah, let him twist in the wind.
Let his presence continue to remind everyone of media bias.
Let him attempt to anchor CBS' coverage of the debates, he's already down for Thursday's, and election night.
Let his public humiliation grow until friends avoid him and other CBS workers look away when he walks by.
Then can his ass at New Years.
So9
Here is the most sensational political crime since the Watergate break-in and no one is asking "who knew what when" of the DNC staffers whose fingerprints are all over this crime scene. If this had been the RNC and Fox News, I'll wager the NYTimes would have had front-page above-the-fold stories each and every day since it broke. Instead? Nada. Zilch. Zero. Zip. Nothing.
I agree, but CBS is getting hammered anyway and it is not necessarily over for the DNC/Kerry campaign either. There is
a possibility of additional disclosures or discoveries.
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