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RATHER STAYS HOME; EXECUTIVES SPLIT; MOONVES LOOKS TOWARDS FUTURE
DRUDGEREPORT ^ | 1/10/99 | DRUDGE

Posted on 01/10/2005 5:24:25 PM PST by Swanks

RATHER STAYS HOME; EXECUTIVES SPLIT; MOONVES LOOKS TOWARDS FUTURE

*Exclusive**

CBSNEWS veteran Don Hewitt called Dan Rather's disappearance from Monday's Evening News "really stupid" during a damage control meeting on Monday, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

One top source inside the CBS Broadcast Center claimed Rather was told to stay off the air on Monday, as a form of punishment!

Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer was called in to anchor the damaged ship.

CBS staffers were shocked Monday when CBS president Les Moonves suddenly tied Rather's upcoming resignation to the phony document flap, a departure from CBS's official storyline.

Moonves explained in a memo: "Dan Rather has already apologized for the segment and taken responsibility for his part in the broadcast. He voluntarily moved to set a date to step down from the CBS EVENING NEWS in March of 2005... after examining the report and thinking about its implications, we believe any further action would not be appropriate."


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To: Swanks
Moonves explained in a memo: "Dan Rather has already apologized for the segment and taken responsibility for his part in the broadcast

He NEVER apologized to the President.

21 posted on 01/10/2005 5:43:39 PM PST by Mo1 (Does the distinguished Sen from VT wish to act as our treaty rep. for negotiations with Al Queda?)
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To: Soul Seeker
I DO want an apology..for the President. The one thing CBS will never do.

Somebody CBS biggie had been at the White House last week on bended knee. The apology will come soon.

22 posted on 01/10/2005 5:44:29 PM PST by DCPatriot (I don't do politically correct very well either.)
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To: js1138
Here's my version:


23 posted on 01/10/2005 5:45:06 PM PST by jrewing (I'm jrewing again now, not "jrewingjr" since I found my old password. I am he and he is me.)
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To: Soul Seeker

"I don't want Rather's scalp."

I find it enough that this whole, sorry episode has become known as "Rathergate." I think this above all, is what is so galling to him.


24 posted on 01/10/2005 5:45:25 PM PST by Socratic (Ignorant and free? It's not to be! - T. Jefferson (paraphrase))
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To: Inspectorette

Exactly, I actually think a lot of her palaver is crocodile tears Ms. Mapes is going to be sitting pretty financially after all this. Her pension from cBiaSed is going to look rather paltry compared the mother lode she is going to cash in on now. Another chance to spew her acidic vitriol against GW. She will be moonbats' martyr to the evil Republicans.


25 posted on 01/10/2005 5:45:54 PM PST by MKM1960
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To: Swanks

26 posted on 01/10/2005 5:47:00 PM PST by jrewing (I'm jrewing again now, not "jrewingjr" since I found my old password. I am he and he is me.)
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To: Constitution Day

My stars! Can't believe how much Rather looks like Nixon in that cartoon! Thanks, Constitution Day!


27 posted on 01/10/2005 5:48:29 PM PST by AReaganGirl (In whom do we trust? Should we trust man to watch over us? No! Let us trust the Lord!)
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To: DCPatriot
At the WH on bended knee.."

This asute find last nite from Howlin ....

...Heyward was “working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,” our source says, “and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.”

Fruedian slip - but they in effect admit they were after the Bushies.

28 posted on 01/10/2005 5:51:14 PM PST by Swanks
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To: MKM1960
Exactly, I actually think a lot of her palaver is crocodile tears Ms. Mapes is going to be sitting pretty financially after all this.

Perhaps a spot in the DNC, she's already got the contacts.

29 posted on 01/10/2005 5:52:37 PM PST by digger48
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To: Swanks

O'Really claims none of this is Dan's fault. He didn't have time to research the story himself because he just returned from covering the Convention.


30 posted on 01/10/2005 5:53:09 PM PST by Loyal Buckeye ((Kerry is a flake))
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To: DCPatriot

I think that person was Heyward.

The intention was to assure the W.H. it was never personal, it was never political driven.

If they cannot admit the truth I can't see an apology forthcoming any time soon.


31 posted on 01/10/2005 5:57:32 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: jrewing

Love your artwork!!!


32 posted on 01/10/2005 5:57:47 PM PST by SouthTexas
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To: AReaganGirl
You're most welcome! Doesn't he ever?
I don't know the cartoonist, but I saw it in a recent issue of National Review.
33 posted on 01/10/2005 5:58:14 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Swanks

Well, I want to say this after what has happened. If this short of thing happened to Brit Hume or anyone else on fox, Brit Hume would have been fired and heads would have rolled more for fox! Dan Blather got away with just a slap on the wrist!


34 posted on 01/10/2005 5:58:24 PM PST by YoungCorps
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To: Loyal Buckeye

HardBall planning an hour of journalism naval-gazing at 9 pm. Actually, spin control I am sure. Keith Over-his-Head's "Rather" piece on MSNBC was about the lies of the Swift Boat vets and Armstrong Williams. (Shouldn't the CBS successful investigation be the benchmark for these to tragedys.... )


35 posted on 01/10/2005 5:59:11 PM PST by Swanks
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To: Socratic

I can imagine Nixon is smiling. :-D


36 posted on 01/10/2005 5:59:53 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: Loyal Buckeye
O'Reilly is a jackass. This was a planned attack and Danny Boy was rubbing his hands with glee. Visions of the crusading reporter bringing down a sitting government were dancing in his brain. For him, it would have been a coup and he would have been crowned King of all Journalists in perpetuity.
37 posted on 01/10/2005 6:02:14 PM PST by MKM1960
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To: Swanks
CBS staffers were shocked Monday when CBS president Les Moonves suddenly tied Rather's upcoming resignation to the phony document flap, a departure from CBS's official storyline.

This is why Old Dan is sitting home and pouting........the CBS honchos
promised him they'd "stick to the story line" that Rather is "retiring".
They lied.

38 posted on 01/10/2005 6:03:46 PM PST by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: Swanks
C'mon! Dan's not home pouting or being punished! Dan is home forging some other documents to redeem humself in the eyes of the neocommunist left from whom he takes orders.

They got away with the Lehman forgeries in Kerry's military papers, why wouldn't they have gotten away with some additional forgeries about Bush.

What we should be dong s searching back over the tenure of the zealous liberal left-wingers and see what other stories they did are based on forgeries. How many times has 60 Minutes waved a document in the face of some corporate officer and hit him over the head with it? They were forgeries!!!

Proof that Dan was intentionally try to fake evidence to sink Bush is, of course, in the fact that he never once mentioned what Kerry might have been hiding by his refusal to sign an SF-180. This would have been much more interesting to an honest "journalist."

39 posted on 01/10/2005 6:04:44 PM PST by Tacis (Democrats! - When You Need America Blamed Or A Pool Peeed In!!)
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To: Soul Seeker
Amazing TV at 9. The flying monkeys are out.

The two bozo's (Thornburgh + ??) who authored the P-O-S report, on Larry King live. I suppose as an alternative view, we have on LKL.... Bob Schiffer !

Les Monnvies on MSNBC hitting softballs pitched by Dan Abrams. (What was CBS' biggest mistake here, Les?)

At least Fox had Bernard Goldberg....

40 posted on 01/10/2005 6:09:10 PM PST by Swanks
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