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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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...
CBS would rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than pay the money.
“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.
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.
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.
As useless as teats on a Texas Longhorn.
“Dan’s court filing is as thin as turnip soup.”
“This story will be hotter than an El Paso parking lot on an August afternoon.”
Tip of the Stetson to you.
That's funny!
“CBS beat Dan Rather like a rented mule.”
Typical lib....NO accountability...
Excellent point.
The whole case is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O.
“Dan doesn’t know whether to wind his watch or bark at the moon.”
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
ahem . . .
I'll put a bag in the microwave and fax it to you.
OMGG that be classic calling Buckhead as eyewitness LOL!
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