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 Bushs 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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Dan, GO AWAY! If you really want to further your left wing views just go ahead and JOIN the Hillary campaign.
This is one of those fights where it’s hard to decide which side to be on. Rather is a lying scumbag; CBS is a bunch of stupid buffoons. Hmmmmmm
This is not good. This will be in the news all next year during the campaign, trumpeting anti Bush charges and charges of right wing influence on the media.
Who do we cheer for here?
It’s kind of like me as a Longhorn fan having to choose between the Sooners and Aggy when they play each other.
Not as good as yours — but here’s a couple I thought of:
Payback’s a b!tch
What goes around, comes around
Disagree. There couldn't be a more clear example of left wing bias than Rathergate. And they're not running against Bush.
Will Mr. Rather be submitting a Fake but Accurate deposition?
While this adds nothing to this thread or to his suit, I never tire of reading it:
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Monday, Jan. 31, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. Matthew Sheffield of RatherBiased.com told the capacity audience the critical story of how “Rathergate” emerged as a scandal:
“The fall of Dan Rather began on September 8, 2004 with a posting on a forum at FreeRepublic.com - discussing the documents presented on CBS that allegedly showed that President Bush had evaded the draft, used influence to join the Texas Air National Guard, and later used that same influence to whitewash his record
”
Added Sheffield: “A virtual think-tank was born Forty-seven posts later, a person who called himself ‘Buckhead’ offered the proposition that he thought the documents were forgeries.”
(Excerpt from Newsmax)
Didn't damage it nearly enough..........There should be jail time for attempting to subvert the electoral process.
The lawsuit charges are fake, but accurate.
ping
Rather - My Father is up in heaven, laughing at your sorry ass and how you have been brought down to a fate you so richly deserve, you traitorous bastard!
Yippee, Dan Blather vs. Les Moonves in a nice juicy catfight, may the best girl win!!
Now CBS may be sorry they issued such a whitewash of a report on his malfeasance, for if they had shredded his credibility and competence as fully as the evidence warranted then he would not have a case now. Thornburgh and that AP liberal went very easy on Dan in the special report — they should have dismembered his career and reputation once and for all.
Hey Dan, there is only one person resposible for your reputation and any damage done to it.
BTW, what’s the latest on your newest “Hurricane-in-Waiting?”
“because of pressure from the right wing.”
Aka America to CBS
It’s Baab Woot-woot envy - a lifetime of it!
I hope the CommieBroadcastSystem files a countersuit.
They suffered greatly from Rather’s sloppy work.
I’ll get out the popcorn.
Face it, Dan, you’re irrelevant.
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