Posted on 06/06/2006 6:35:01 AM PDT by MindBender26
Station executives at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for last week’s CBS affiliate meeting were so entranced by the vision of the network’s newest star, Katie Couric, they barely noticed that CBS veteran Dan Rather was conspicuously absent.
While Couric enjoys a long welcome to the CBS Evening News anchor chair, the man who sat there for 24 years has been virtually disappeared by his network.
It seems the infamy he won with his flawed report on President Bush’s National Guard service during the height of the 2004 campaign is far from fleeting.
Since leaving his Evening News throne in March 2005 for what was billed as a full-time gig at 60 Minutes, Rather has reported only a handful of segments. (Lesley Stahl, by contrast, has reported dozens in that time.)
And while Couric and CNN wunderkind Anderson Cooper were feted as new 60 (Minutes) contributors at CBS’ upfront presentation in May, the silence regarding Rather’s future was deafening—and shameful, given his 44 years of service.
His deal comes due by year-end, but nobody inside CBS will confirm whether he’ll be a correspondent or even at the network this time next year.
A CBS spokesperson says: "Dan Rather is a 60 Minutes correspondent who is currently working on stories that will air in the next few weeks."
Rather has been gracefully silent about the silent treatment, but his friends describe him as "hurt and confused" by the state of affairs.
At 74 years old, Rather is young by 60 Minutes standards and eager to work. But sadly, the chances that he’ll follow in the footsteps of Mike Wallace, whose long career (and non-retirement at 88) was celebrated on a recent broadcast, look about as thin as turnip soup
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Dan will resurface in glory when he finally gets his hand on that electric typewriter with the proportional font.
Gives new meaning to the term "re-arranging the deck chairs on the titanic".
May Rather suffer long and harshly for all the damage he did and tried to do.
Courage Dan.
This guy didn't report the news, and just like Cronkite, he manufactured it almost every night. He did no favors for America...and in my book that spells treasonous behavior.Good he is gone.
After all the decades of being force-fed the Rather lies and anti-American distribes, this is one report I am savoring. This stupid, vapid and egotistical man is finally rejected by his own kind. Nevermind that millions of Americans have long hoped for his termination and humiliation. Good bye, Danny boy, may you have continued humiliating treatment from your much-loved fellow leftists.
PS, >they barely noticed that CBS veteran Dan Rather was conspicuously absent.
Comnplete BS. Friends were there. Was talk of every bar conversation.
One reporter from XXXXXX even did a great impression of Dan begging Suits if he could come if he paid his own way and "stayed at a cheap hotel out in Henderson."
"barely noticed that CBS veteran Dan Rather was conspicuously absent"
The media just can't get free of Fake but Accurate. If few noticed Rather was missing, then his absence cannot have been conspicuous.
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