I remember it all so well...
Posted on 09/19/2007 12:30:52 PM PDT by abb
Dan Rather, whose career at CBS News ground to an inglorious end 15 months ago over his role in an unsubstantiated report questioning President Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service, filed a $70 million lawsuit this afternoon against the network, its corporate parent and three of his former superiors.
Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to step down as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in March 2005. He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the flawed Guard broadcast and, in the process, “seriously damaged his reputation.” As plaintiffs, the suit names CBS and its chief executive, Leslie Moonves; Viacom and its chief executive, Sumner Redstone; and Andrew Heyward, the former president of CBS News.
In the suit, filed this afternoon in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Rather charges that CBS and its executives made him “a scapegoat” in an attempt “to pacify the White House,” though the formal complaint presents virtually no direct evidence to that effect. To buttress this claim, Mr. Rather quotes the executive who oversaw his regular segment on CBS Radio, telling Mr. Rather in November 2004 that he was losing that slot, effective immediately, because of “pressure from ‘the right wing.’ ”
He also continues to take vehement issue with the appointment by CBS of Richard Thornburgh, an attorney general in the administration of the elder President Bush, as one of the two outside panelists given the job of reviewing how the disputed broadcast had been prepared.
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Stop yer cryin’, Dan. Just go away, will ya.
as thin as turnip soup
beat Dan Rather like a rented mule
I'm guessing that you have been around for awhile.
Don't get me wrong, no harm intended.
It's just that I have not heard / seen those phrases for a long, long time.....
Just for what it's worth, a mule deserves more respect than Dan Blather does. So, maybe, ........
"Beat Dan Rather like a rented vehicle." ??
And I wonder how many are asking themselves, "Why would turnip soup be thin?"
Again, no harm intended, ok?
Thanks for the memory "refresh"!
I remember it all so well...
Must be Imus fever.
the First Known Person to Express Doubts on The Internet About the Authenticity of the CBS Documents
Rather Wrong...
The Dan Rather cult of personality has at least one remaining member - Dan himself.
Can’t he just go quietly into the night? Brokaw did.
;) thx
Heh! Rephrase this as a Dan'ism somehow and you've got a perfect riff.
Lol
This just tickles me. Too bad this was not a Friday afternoon headline, what a way to start the weekend....
That be so funny if CBS call Buckhead as witness ROFL
YOur honor I like call one Freeper by name of Buckhead OMG that freak out Dan Rather BIG TIME or Kristinn
Thank you again, the thread needed that!!
I don’t place that much of the blame on Dan. All of those “anchors” are just empty suits who read whatever the producer hands them. The folks behind the puppet are the ones responsable for his actions.
Dan Blather v. SeeBS...
Good night, and good luck!
That's what I'd do if I was Moonves. 2 can play.
There ya go, although CBS had done plenty unto themselves...but it would be fun to see Dan pop a vein over it!
I love it, didn’t see it first time around. My daughter (grown) draws similar pics, stick people, with much humor too. Bravo!
Dan is a fool! He wll lose big time.
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