Dan Rather Fired By CBS (Read Details - That's The Bottom Line)

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[MindBender26]

This just in from source at Black Rock:

He/She is at pre-season party in The Hamptons. Other CBSers (The Suits) are there as well.

The Suits confirmed:

Ran Rather's contract at CBS expires in August. He has not been offered ANY type of renewal. There may be some tiny dollar (the exact fee never to be disclosed) face-saving deal but that's it, Dan is out.

This comes after he "resigned" from CBS Evening News position last year in an attempt to stop the bloodletting of advertisers at CBS. As we all know, the primary cause was not so much Rather's broadcasting the original phony Bush "Recordsgate" story but Rather's insistence, way beyond anything or any time that was reasonable, that the story was valid.

From the moment FR's pajamahadeen pointed out the many irrefutable technical flaws in the supposed documents, it was dead meat as a journalistic piece. Rather slew himself by sticking with what was obviously a phony story designed to attack the President and help Kerry.

In addition, Rather's acceptance of a $20,000 fee to speak to Texas Democrats was another quiet nail in his CBS coffin. In journalism circles, that is a huge no-no. Some stations forbid their employees to even contribute to campaigns and fire offenders In this case, Rather was taking $ from the Texas Dems!

After Evening News, Rather was to contribute to "60 Minutes II" on Wednesdays but that show had ratings lower than the radio calls of the Roto-Rooter truck dispatcher.

How significant is this? 25 years after he left the anchor chair, Walter Cronkite is still on some income at CBS.

Rather is out on his ear.

There will be much more on this in MSM (including some severe spinning) in weeks to come, but FR had it first!

[Huck]

How bout he goes to PBS and WE end up paying his salary? Sorry. But I can see it happening. I can't see him working for any outfit that has a bottom line to look after.

[abb]

Pinging the Dinosaur Media Extinction Alert list...

[fhayek]

What's the frequency NOW, Kenneth?

[Fudd Fan]

oooooooh, BURN!

[onyx]

Thanks for the ping.

[Fudd Fan]

That could have been Jennings, but no matter.

[MindBender26]

>What's the frequency NOW, Kenneth?

0 Mhz

[Fudd Fan]

Yah, ol'Dan would have a party with Moyers in that case.

[Diogenesis]

[ansel12]

People don't know he also was published in the hard left Nation magazine.

[Deetes]

poof !

[cowtowney]

"Courage, Dan, Courage!"

Gosh, don't remind me. What a phony!

Especially from an ex-Marine like Dan /sc

[MindBender26]

Great stuff

How about adding (under myths)

"We're working hard on Hillary"

[melt]

You mean he's still around? I thought he was already canned.

Oh well, bye, bye Dan. It is the Digital Age now.

[Diogenesis]

[Candor7]

Three notches on the Pubbie gun:

1) Peter Jennings ( we got lucky)

2) Dan Rather

3) Mike Wallace

It don't pay to lie when the Big Guy Upstairs smiles on the Republic and helps to preserve it.

Come on Helen Thomas, you may be next.

[sully777]

With the deepest respect: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts

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To: Howlin

Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.



47 posted on 09/08/2004 8:59:43 PM PDT by Buckhead


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[MindBender26]

Dear Dan,
Tene Tuam Aquam.

[Brian Allen]

<< 25 years after he left the anchor chair, Walter Cronkite is still on some income at CBS. >>

Communism's BS loves its traitors to not so obviously out themselves. Or at the very least to not, while doing so, lose even the battle in which they're engaged.

Mr Rather both outed himself -- and lost.

While Cronkite's contributions to his masters' win in Vietnam won him a lifetime on CBS's tit.

[Diogenesis]