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.”...

[keat]

Wallace: "There were no fights—he’s 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.

[45Auto]

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.

[Erasmus]

I'm surprised 87 year old Wallace can take a leak without help.

Or that he can finish in only twenty minutes.

[Forest Keeper]

DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!

[Erasmus]

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.'"

[richardtavor]

They both have to pee when they are sitting down, so I doubt that peeing on each other was an option!

[kidd]

The bathroom is Dan Rather's favorite conference room.

Its the only place where he can hold his own...

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

[libs_kma]

"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).

[Constantine XIII]

I'm simply stunned at the flagrant violation of urnial ettiquite.

[Delta 21]

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[martin_fierro]

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[weegee]

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...

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[martin_fierro]

But of course.

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[weegee]

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

[N. Theknow]

Are you Drew Pearson?

No, I haven't started yet.

[N. Theknow]

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.

[Congressman Billybob]

You are referring to the Great Meatloaf Caper, which Wallace got out of by telling the investigating police that "I'm Mike Wallace."

Congressman Billybob

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[Rockitz]

I heard it was more like this.

Rather: "The water's cold."
Wallace: "The water's deep."
Rather: "Uh-huh."