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Pissing Match At CBS
Radar Online ^
| Oct 31, 2005
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 Memogatewhile the two men were standing side-by-side at a urinal.
The argument erupted in a mens 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 interviewscheduled to air this morningthat 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 placeI dont remember whether it was in a mens room, he saidbut called the notion that tempers flared bullshit.
I said to Danand I told him that I said this to KatieDid 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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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; memogate; rathergate; seebsnews
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To: NewMediaFan
Wallace: "There were no fightshes a much younger and bigger and stronger man than I."
Recalling the video of rather getting b**** slapped at the '68 Democratic convention
Video, I'm not sure I'd put my money on Rather in that fight. I'm guessing Wallace probably knows he'd kick Rather's a**, he's just being nice.
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posted on
10/31/2005 12:29:01 PM PST
by
keat
(Posting code without previewing since 2004)
To: NewMediaFan
The only thing Wallace was PO'ed about was that Dan had blown the cover off the whole MSM - they were and are all lying, agenda-driven scumbags.
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posted on
10/31/2005 12:29:21 PM PST
by
45Auto
(Big holes are (almost) always better.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I'm surprised 87 year old Wallace can take a leak without help. Or that he can finish in only twenty minutes.
43
posted on
10/31/2005 12:32:45 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Getting captivated by modern music leads to Stockhausen Syndrome.)
To: NewMediaFan
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
44
posted on
10/31/2005 12:33:47 PM PST
by
Forest Keeper
(Liberal agenda: "An abortion in every pot, and a hybrid in every garage!")
To: Sloth
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... "I'd call that a big 'Yes.'"
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posted on
10/31/2005 12:34:33 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Getting captivated by modern music leads to Stockhausen Syndrome.)
To: sofaman
They both have to pee when they are sitting down, so I doubt that peeing on each other was an option!
46
posted on
10/31/2005 12:38:57 PM PST
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
To: NewMediaFan
The bathroom is Dan Rather's favorite conference room.
Its the only place where he can hold his own...
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posted on
10/31/2005 12:39:39 PM PST
by
kidd
To: Petronski
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"I'm surprised 87 year old Wallace can take a leak without help." Wasn't it Wallace a couple months ago that got his panties in a bunch at a NY Restaraunt about some carry out?
I remember something about the cops being called and he was yelling like a little girl (sorry little girls, no offense meant) about something. Then they let him go (I'd have knocked him in the head with a billy club first, just for being a lefty).
49
posted on
10/31/2005 12:48:16 PM PST
by
libs_kma
(USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
To: NewMediaFan
I'm simply stunned at the flagrant violation of urnial ettiquite.
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
10/31/2005 1:19:52 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG-ret)
To: =Intervention=; adam_az; an amused spectator; bert; BlessedBeGod; BlessedByLiberty; Blurblogger; ...
To: NewMediaFan
20 minutes of applause in Cannes for Michael Moore's anti-Bush propaganda film. 20 minutes arguing in front of a urinal.
Funny how they don't want to use the same standard for measuring time...
53
posted on
10/31/2005 1:28:35 PM PST
by
weegee
(To understand the left is to rationalize how abortion can be a birthright.)
To: martin_fierro
54
posted on
10/31/2005 1:35:25 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Is every democrat a bent kneed Monica?)
To: GOPJ
To: AmishDude
I don't pay attention to CBS News. All of their stories are sloppy seconds. That's why they resort to making up news items. They are "exclusive". Just like at the Weekly World News
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posted on
10/31/2005 1:45:00 PM PST
by
weegee
(To understand the left is to rationalize how abortion can be a birthright.)
To: NewMediaFan
Are you Drew Pearson?
No, I haven't started yet.
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posted on
10/31/2005 1:46:52 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: NewMediaFan
From the age of both of them, shouting would be a must without hearing aids.
Imagine 20 minutes of two men shouting
"Do You know who I am?"
at each other.
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posted on
10/31/2005 1:49:27 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: libs_kma
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posted on
10/31/2005 2:09:14 PM PST
by
Congressman Billybob
(Do you think Fitzpartick resembled Captain Queeg, coming apart on the witness stand?)
To: add925
I heard it was more like this.
Rather: "The water's cold."
Wallace: "The water's deep."
Rather: "Uh-huh."
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posted on
10/31/2005 2:13:57 PM PST
by
Rockitz
(After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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