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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"Wallace confirmed that a “discussion” had taken place—”I don’t remember whether it was in a men’s room,” he said"
Okay, so we have an admission that we must DOUBLE SOURCE anything Wallace says. What a 'bladder-wart' !....
I seem to recall a scene where John Belushi had such a 'discussion' in a men's room. The other guy wasn't too happy there, either...and probably deserved it LESS....
For God's sake...isn't there a mandatory retirement age at CBS? Is there anyone under the age of 70 there? Can you just keep working until you're like 110. If there was a mandatory retirement age, they'd probably be doing better in the ratings.
You don't flush your used "Depends" down the urinal do you?
 "Mike"? Try "Mr. Wallace." We work in the same corporation, doesn't mean we work in the same profession. What are you gonna do now? You gonna finesse me? Lawyer me some more? I've been in this profession fifty f****ing years. You and the people you work for are destroying the most-respected, the highest-rated, the most-profitable show on this network!" |
Who leaked this first?
I wonder if they shook hands after it was over.
Ping. Just don't try to have any mental images.
Thanks, I'm going to read this because I watched Wallace on Larry King tonight and he is something else!!
Four words: "The Golden Age Whizzer"
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