Hurricane Dan In The Eye Of The Storm Again

Blogger News Network ^ | September 25, 2007

[wastedyears]

http://hurricanedeanpath.ytmnd.com/

[bubbacluck]

Sounds like he is admitting he is only a newsreader and not a journalist. This is hugh!

[stm]

"I think he's gone off the deep end,"

Understatement of the millenium. This guy caught the last train to toonerville years ago.

[SampleMan]

Courage.

[TheBlueMax]

You know, I think Dan might be crazy as a fox here....this law suit isn’t being heard because Dan’s mad at being fired for airing the TNG story. He’s mad because CBS knew about the story, had corporate backing on the story, and then was left holding the bag by himself when it fell apart. I believe he wants to show that Les Moonves and the rest of CBS corporate were in on the TNG story from the start.

[Bitsy]

Since when does a leftist liberal media outlet like CBS want to appease a republican whitehouse. They think we are so stoopid!

[JWinNC]

What Rather wants and could possibly get is a settlement (sealed) with CBS that would:

A. Keep CBS from having to go through a rehash of how bad their “journalism” was and is.

B. Give Rather plausible deniability... it wasn’t my fault... I was just a scapegoat, etc...

and C. Leave it hanging open as a possiblity that the story really was true and just covered up by the “right wing conspiracy.”

jw

[r9etb]

he is fighting for "the red, beating heart of our democracy

[Badeye]

I think Jonah Goldbergs column sums it up best.

Pass the popcorn....

[TexasCajun]

CBS will have to take the position that Dan Rather is a fake!

...bring the popcorn.

[Rummyfan]

Dan Rather told The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz in a telephone interview that by filing his $70-million wrongful dismissal suit against CBS, he is fighting for "the red, beating heart of our democracy," journalism.

Dan Rather is living in some bizarro parallel universe!

[theothercheek]

LOL!

[theothercheek]

If only they’d find the right frequency for the ECT, they can cure him ...

[theothercheek]

But Dan committed the ultimate crime: He got caught red-handed. That’s why he gets to hold the bag for everyone else.

[theothercheek]

He always was.

[tumblindice]

“Dan Rather . . . is fighting for “the red, beating heart of our democracy,” journalism”

He further stated:
“Back home they’d say I’ve been whippin’ snakes, that I’ve been busier than a one-armed man in a marathon daisy-chain.
Just look at my eyes. I never really focus on anything, beady like a diamond-back rattler. And my facial expression: as poker-faced as the poker-face of a poker player.
Yes, I’ll fight the fight, I’ll fight all right. Until I get the right frequency, I’ll fight all night.
Like that time—way back in the piney woods, back when Caesar was a pup, in the hill country, my old tick-hound `Bullet’ was howlin’ like a tornado siren and, and . . . “
and then Mr. Rather was given some Thorazine.

[NoBullZone]

I hope CBS counter sues Dan for beach of contract (there HAD to be a NDA in his network contract, or CBS is even more stupid than I think), fraud (representing to his superiors the documents were genuine long past the time any reasonable person could see they were not), journalistic malpractice (not vetting the story) and slander (blaming CBS for leving him high and dry to please the White House). I wonder if Danny Boy has thought about what a FOOL he is going to look like when a court proceeding reveals his Machiavellian attempt to stage a coup based on documents he knew, or should have known, were forgeries. I think Mr. Rather is receiving very short-sighted legal counsel - hope the lawyer had the sense to take this on an hourly basis with a huge up-front retainer.

[Rummyfan]

Rather-isms from Election Night 2000:

Bush’s lead was “shakier than cafeteria Jell-O”

Democrats were “cross as a snapping turtle”

The election was “hotter than a Laredo parking lot”, not to mention “as tight as a too-small bathing suit on a too-hot car ride back from the beach”.

[ANGGAPO]

Sounds as if you have it correct.