Pissing Match At CBS

Radar Online ^ | Oct 31, 2005

[NewMediaFan]

When newly-promoted CBS News president Sean McManus gets around to chatting with Dan Rather about the fallout from his Bush National Guard story, we hope he uses more tact than Mike Wallace. According to sources inside the network, Wallace recently got into a shouting match with Rather after telling the disgraced journo he should have resigned over “Memogate”—while the two men were standing side-by-side at a urinal.

The argument erupted in a men’s room at CBS headquarters in New York, we hear, after Wallace sidled up to his whizzing 60 Minutes colleague of three decades and told him he had just confided to Katie Couric in a Today Show interview—scheduled to air this morning—that he thought Rather should have resigned when his underlings were canned for basing the National Guard story on what turned out to be phony documents.

“They were both standing at the urinals when Wallace casually mentioned what he had told Katie,” says the source. ”There proceeded a twenty-minute shouting match in the bathroom” between Rather and the 87-year-old journalist.

Reached for comment, Wallace confirmed that a “discussion” had taken place—”I don’t remember whether it was in a men’s room,” he said—but called the notion that tempers flared “bullshit.”

“I said to Dan—and I told him that I said this to Katie—’Did it never occur to you after the people who worked with you were fired that you might have resigned in sympathy with them?’” Wallace said. “And he replied, ‘Yes, it did occur to me.’ And we had a very pleasant, straightforward conversation about it.”...

[BulletBobCo]

’Did it never occur to you after the people who worked with you were fired that you might have resigned in sympathy with them?’” Wallace said. “And he replied, ‘Yes, it did occur to me.’....turning towards Wallace as he said this.

[sofaman]

Can you imagine crossing swords in the mens room...they could have peed on each other for my part. They're both shills anyway.

As it happens, Rather should have been fired and not allowed to resign.

[ozzymandus]

I prefer the version of the 2 leftist geezers screaming at each other in the john, other than the sanitized version of them having a "pleasant conversation".

[Plutarch]

Well, what with these two sporting 161 years of prostatic hypertrophy between them, they were probably spending a great deal of time at the urinal.

[Thud]

Snarf!

[MichaelP]

As he turned....Hehehe!

Mike

[frogjerk]

Can you imagine crossing swords in the mens room...they could have peed on each other for my part. They're both shills anyway.

Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

VENKMAN (protesting) No! You said crossing the beams would be BAD. It'll kill her! And us!
SPENGLER Life is just a state of mind.
VENKMAN But it's my favorite state.
STANTZ Either way we're history.

[RightResponse]

Three words: "The Original Whizzonator"

[Delta 21]

If there were no punches exchanged its not news! I bet the old codger could have taken him with one punch!

[YouPosting2Me]

Talk you your doctor to see if Cialis is right for you!

[Frank_Discussion]

Well, they just MIGHT have enjoyed that...

[Lancey Howard]

Hilarity BUMP!

[glorgau]

while the two men were standing side-by-side at a urinal.

Reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke: Let's go into the men's room and have it out together. I'll show you what a little man you really are! ;-)

[AmishDude]

I don't pay attention to CBS News. All of their stories are sloppy seconds.

[Polyxene]

’Did it never occur to you after the people who worked with you were fired that you might have resigned in sympathy with them?’” Wallace said. “And he replied, ‘Yes, it did occur to me.’....turning towards Wallace as he said this....
AND
...never stopping his stream of thought, Rather expostulated, "What's the frequency, Mike?"

[SE Mom]

Wow...

[rockrr]

This story cannot be true.

Neither one of these fossils stands up to pee.....

[sofaman]

that's hilarious...my son was a Ghostbusters addict as a kid. we watched the movies over and over..he had every action figure and attachment imaginable, as well as the coveralls, proton pack, ghost trap, etc.

Thanks for the post..made my day.

[saganite]

Plutarch's corollary to the Peter principle: You rise to your level of incontinence.