Posted on 10/31/2005 11:17:24 AM PST by 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.”...
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If no one got peed, it doesn't lead.
Out of extreme nerditude, I have to inquire about this. I remember the exchange going like this:
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VENKMAN: Excuse me, Egon, you said crossing the streams was "bad."
STANTZ (realization dawning): ... Cross the streams...
VENKMAN: You're gonna endanger us! You're gonna endanger our client, the nice lady who paid us in advance, before she became a dog.
SPENGLER: Not necessarily. There's definitely a... very slim chance we'll survive.
VENKMAN (excited): I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it. Let's do it!
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I like the 'favorite state of mind' line, I just don't remember it.
I got it from a site that had the movie transcript. I'll find the link...
I'm surprised 87 year old Wallace can take a leak without help.
Maybe that was the original written script but they ad-libbed it differently in the movie?...
Who says Dan wasn't helping?
It was a 20 min argument..I guess between them they had to wait awhile...
Thanks, I heard Rush mention this, but was looking for a "hard" copy.
Someone just had to mention "swords"...
Maybe...but now your geekness genes are going to make me watch this movie again, aren't they?... ;)
Rather: "I love these pink mints"
Wallace: "They're not mints, Dan, they're used to clean your dentures. You know, like a Polident tablet."
Rather: "Are not...."
Wallace: "Are so...."
Rather: "Are not...."
Wallace: "Are so...."
Rather: "ARE NOT!...."
Wallace: "ARE SO!...."
was this a pissing match?
nah, just a pair of of floppy seconds......... he, he....
I have a feeling that the best either could do is to pee on their own shoes.
I don't know about the rest of you but to me anything concerning "Network" television media tyhese days seems so .... Quaint .
Yep, that is _definitely_ not the final transcript. For example, it describes the librarian at the beginning as being in her twenties, whereas the actress in that part was pushing 60. Explains Venkman's 'menstruating' question a little better, though...
’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 Rather replied, ‘Yes, it did occur to me.’....turning towards Wallace as he said this.
At which point Rather squealed "That's it, bizzotch, it's go time!" and Wallace responded in a roar "Think it through, Kenneth, 'cuz I know the f***in' frequency!"
After that, they rolled on the floor in their own freakish union in sad excuse for wrestling that looked more like the end of the line on jello day at the home: two geriatric forms wallowing in their own filth on a tile floor screeching "die, you filthy psycho" and "don't make me break my colostomy!"
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