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Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS
New York Times ^ | September 19, 2007 | JACQUES STEINBERG

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
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To: abb

The circle jerkers over at DU are loving this because it will finally prove that W was AWOL and the Rather memo was true. If they did not hate America so much, I would feel sorry for them...


81 posted on 09/19/2007 1:10:35 PM PDT by eureka! (Is power so important to the Democrats that they are willing to betray our country? Sadly, yes.)
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To: abb

CBS would rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than pay the money.


82 posted on 09/19/2007 1:11:27 PM PDT by sirjohn
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To: speedy

“This story will be hotter than an El Paso parking lot on an August afternoon.”

My wife flew down there yesterday. It’s in the 90s.

August must be murder.


83 posted on 09/19/2007 1:12:15 PM PDT by toddlintown (Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: abb
rather doesn't understand the first rule of holes, to wit; "when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging".
84 posted on 09/19/2007 1:12:17 PM PDT by smonk
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To: Old Professer

I’ve been fertilizing the lawn, citrus trees and roses in anticipation of lots of rain. Tropical cloud arc can be seen to the east. Don’t expect anything until the system is in the GOM.


85 posted on 09/19/2007 1:12:34 PM PDT by NautiNurse (McClatchy News report: Half the nation's families earn below the median family income)
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To: speedy

This could actually put CBS/MSM in the position of exposing this lunatic for the Bush bashing, bias nincompoop that he is and in turn expose their own network. Ironical.


86 posted on 09/19/2007 1:13:35 PM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: abb

As useless as teats on a Texas Longhorn.


87 posted on 09/19/2007 1:14:16 PM PDT by toddlintown (Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: abb

“Dan’s court filing is as thin as turnip soup.”


88 posted on 09/19/2007 1:14:59 PM PDT by Califelephant
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To: speedy

“This story will be hotter than an El Paso parking lot on an August afternoon.”

Tip of the Stetson to you.


89 posted on 09/19/2007 1:15:27 PM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: freedomdefender
What’s the frequency of these kinds of lawsuits, does anyone know?

That's funny!

90 posted on 09/19/2007 1:16:04 PM PDT by webheart
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To: abb

“CBS beat Dan Rather like a rented mule.”


91 posted on 09/19/2007 1:16:32 PM PDT by Califelephant
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To: abb

Typical lib....NO accountability...


92 posted on 09/19/2007 1:16:59 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: Enchante
...if they had shredded his credibility and competence as fully as the evidence warranted then he would not have a case now.

Excellent point.

93 posted on 09/19/2007 1:17:01 PM PDT by Socratic (“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” - Corrie Ten Boom)
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To: abb

The whole case is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O.


94 posted on 09/19/2007 1:18:35 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: abb

“Dan doesn’t know whether to wind his watch or bark at the moon.”


95 posted on 09/19/2007 1:18:38 PM PDT by Califelephant
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To: abb

96 posted on 09/19/2007 1:19:36 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: abb

What’s the frequency, Kenneth?


97 posted on 09/19/2007 1:19:38 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: toddlintown

ahem . . .

98 posted on 09/19/2007 1:20:17 PM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Fawn
I have seen this popcorn pic way too often today. Now I gotta have some.

I'll put a bag in the microwave and fax it to you.

99 posted on 09/19/2007 1:20:25 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: dirtboy

OMGG that be classic calling Buckhead as eyewitness LOL!


100 posted on 09/19/2007 1:20:44 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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