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Harry Smith Angry over Dan Rather's Job
NewsMax ^ | 2/4/05 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 02/04/2005 7:55:30 PM PST by wagglebee

More ugly details are trickling out from behind the scenes at CBS's Rathergate fiasco, with one of the network's top on-air personalities reportedly telling a senior executive that Dan Rather should have been fired.

CBS "Early Show" host Harry Smith is said to have "pointedly confronted" news division chief Andrew Heyward during a staff meeting after three producers were asked to take the fall for Rather's blunder last month.

According to the Web site NewsBlues.com, Smith wanted to know why and how Dan Rather was still able to keep his position on "60 Minutes Wednesday."

Ratherbiased.com, which picked up the story, said Smith was unavailable for comment on his alleged showdown with Heyward.

As NewsMax reported earlier this week, tension at CBS was running high over the decision to let both Rather and Heyward keep their jobs, while producers Josh Howard, Mary Murphy and Betsy West were given a few hours to clean out their desks and vacate their offices.

The decision to paint Rather as out of the loop on the disastrous National Guard report also irked staffers who knew that "he’d read multiple drafts of the script for the story [written by producer Mapes], done most of the interviews, and had a thorough knowledge of the story’s content and point of view," according to New York Magazine.

Earlier this week CBS announced that veteran newsman and "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer would replace Rather until CBS chairman Les Moonves settles on a permanent replacement.

Last month, Moonves said he was leaning toward a multi-anchor format for the "CBS Evening News" - and even floated the possibility that "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart might be tapped.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; andrewheyward; bush; cbs; danrather; harrysmith; memogate; ratherbiased; rathergate
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To: wagglebee

good one!


41 posted on 02/04/2005 10:28:17 PM PST by maine-iac7 (...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: xJones

That "investigation" by those two lackeys, Thornburgh and the other clown, really helped CBS diffuse the situation didn't it? LOL, it was like throwing kerosene on the fire because it was such an obvious whitewash job. "Can't say for sure that the documents were fake and there's no evidence of partisanship." Unreal.

Good riddance to CBS. I think the place is on its death bed.


42 posted on 02/04/2005 10:30:33 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Physicist
and we should all be screaming at our DC reps to get on it!

We know, had the shoe been on the other foot - they'd already be in jail

43 posted on 02/04/2005 10:30:59 PM PST by maine-iac7 (...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: RetroWarrior
John Stewart as anchor. That's a scary thought!

Oh, yeah, *that'd* be the way for CBS to overcome their bias problem... </sarcasm>

44 posted on 02/04/2005 10:34:06 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Txsleuth
I know I broke the rule..to all for breaking the rule, I just hope the admin. lets me stay on FR.

N/P..I need to go to HTML Boot camp, too. :^)

45 posted on 02/04/2005 11:05:45 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: doug from upland
The Chris Wallace story? Yep. Not an exact word for word transcript, but as close as I can remember.

Wallace finally knows Howie Carr's audience, in spite of being out of Boston, and syndicated mostly
in the North East, his audience is not liberal, except for a few liberal gadflies.

Wallace has since refined his banter while pitching "Sunday".

Won't give up the 411 on Dan from his father, though.

46 posted on 02/04/2005 11:41:33 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: wagglebee

The FCC can't yank Fox's license, because Fox is cable, not broadcast.


47 posted on 02/05/2005 12:13:40 AM PST by Terpfen (New Democrat Party motto: les enfant terribles)
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To: Calvin Locke

Oh, man, that's classic. LOL.


48 posted on 02/05/2005 4:50:20 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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To: Physicist
Sorry, but this is still utter bullcrap. What Rather & co. did was to fabricate evidence in order to subvert a U.S. Presidental election.

Right on, after all this time we still do not know who wrote the memo's.
49 posted on 02/05/2005 5:02:46 AM PST by SAWTEX
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To: wagglebee
WHO GIVES A $HIT?

The MSM is Going, Going, and hopefully soon GONE!
50 posted on 02/05/2005 5:07:38 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: wagglebee
A picture says a thousand words...I believe Registered's remains the best:

Regards, Ivan

51 posted on 02/05/2005 5:10:11 AM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: wagglebee

Harry has paid his dues at CBS and is probably bitter he was not asked to do the job. For some reason I never took this guy to seriously.


52 posted on 02/05/2005 5:16:33 AM PST by LittleMoe
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To: DCPatriot
And since they are primarily news readers, what does "stupid" have to do with it? (Jon Stewart)

Fairly easy to figure out if you have some idea of his status on the left. Don't worry about it.

53 posted on 02/05/2005 6:06:19 AM PST by Stentor
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To: wagglebee

I think Rather and his cohorts should be indicted for tampering with the election.


54 posted on 02/05/2005 8:28:31 AM PST by Rudder
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To: southernnorthcarolina
Did you happen to see Harry Smith's big boo boo, when he laughed at Newt G. not realizing he (Smith) was on camera? Harry disappeared from view for years after that. What a jerk!
55 posted on 02/05/2005 8:50:33 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Txsleuth
Next thing you know, CBS will have a show called Crossfire and have Tucker Carlson and Jon Stewart face off on political news of the day, and have guests, and...

"Jon, you ignorant slut!"

56 posted on 02/05/2005 11:55:47 AM PST by Erasmus ("They caught my baby makin' booze, but you know I love her still.")
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To: Rudder

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And yet...


LIBERAL Los Angeles Times Media Critic DAVID SHAW still tells us that...


RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts

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57 posted on 02/05/2005 12:43:25 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: wagglebee

I recently came across a book titled "Who Killed CBS?" written in 1988. Rather has been a total hemorrhoid to the company his entire career.

He must have a safety deposit box full of some very interesting photos of very powerful people, not to have been canned years ago.


58 posted on 02/05/2005 12:50:26 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

59 posted on 02/05/2005 1:03:05 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

Kewl! Howdju do that?


60 posted on 02/05/2005 1:57:56 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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