Do you think Dan Rather should have been fired from CBS? (CNN Online Poll)

CNewsNetwork ^ | January 10, 2004 | CNewsNetworkCNN

[BJungNan]

Do you think Dan Rather should have been fired from CBS?

Yes 50%
No 50%

Scroll down the page, on the right. Freep this one!

[patriciamary]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Paleo Conservative]

That would be too good for him. He deserves a firing squad.

[Michael.SF.]

He has been. They just gave him 365 days to clean out his desk.

[BJungNan]

He has been. They just gave him 365 days to clean out his desk.

That's a good way to look at it!

[gortklattu]

Darn....voting YES was the easiest thing I've done all day.....

[dr_lew]

Just now saw Paula Zahn interviewing Thornburgh and the other guy on CNN. The spin is dizzying. There is a major rehabilitation effort underway here. The firings are generating martyrs. This all stems from the fact that they will not give the slightest intimation that the documents were gross, or even probable, phonies. They fall back on the process concept. They didn't properly authenticate. They rushed. By doing this, they are implicitly pushing the idea that the documents were genuine underneath it all. Proof of this: Thornburgh, by way of saying they "rushed" starts out, "From the time the documents were discovered and presented to CBS ..." ( close to that . ) Right there, here's declaring them genuine by saying the were "discovered" and then "presented" to CBS. It's very clear.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Fired or not, at least he's retiring under a dark cloud. More than anything else in his career, Memogate will be what is most remembered.

[RandallFlagg]

Tell me. With these results:

Do you think Dan Rather should have been fired from CBS?

Yes 50% 36102 votes

No 50% 35578 votes
Total: 71680 votes

How in the name of King Arthur can that be fifty percent?!

[conshack]

It is 50% if you don't take it out to the decimal. Then it would be 50.xx to 49.xx.

[Roscoe Karns]

I say he can keep his job if he (a) gives an on-air apology to George Bush (b) tells us what the frequency is, and (c)admits he wears ladies underwear. (even if he doesn't)

[RandallFlagg]

And he must say, "NI!" after every show's opening credits.

[jim35]

Do you think Dan Rather should have been fired from CBS?

Yes 50% 36600 votes

No 50% 36076 votes
Total: 72676 votes

He deserved a firing squad decades ago, during the monopoly years when he learned such arrogance. It's not perfect, but Rather being fired is still pretty great. Maybe it'll make him suicidal?

[I got the rope]

50.4
49.6

What a bunch of cowards...they should show the extra decimal in the calculation.

[Roscoe Karns]

Ok, Dan, say "NI".
"No. I don't want to and you can't make me."
What's that,Dan? We're not hearing you. A little louder please.
"NI"
Aw, c'mon Danny, Ol'boy, bark it out.Or shall we ask John Roberts if he can say "NI"?
"NI!"
There's a good lad.

[William of Orange]

TOO CLOSE TO CALL!!!

Yes 50% 37459 votes

No 50% 36999 votes

[Gondring]

It has been announced that some extra ballots were found behind the server and "No" now has taken the lead in the manual recount.

[Gondring]

Do you think Dan Rather should have been fired from CBS?

Yes 50% 37604 votes
No 50% 37133 votes

Total: 74737 votes

[garylmoore]

The man will go down in history as a shame to his profession.

[Elle Bee]

50/50 with the YES vote numerically ahead

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