[aroostook war]

He added that a Bob Dylan lyric had been rattling around his head for the last few days that "he not busy being born is busy dying."

Right-O Dan. And "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," do you now?

[BluH2o]

Dan Rather, may, or may not, hang around 'til March 9. However, I can assure you the '60 Minute' gig will be over very soon ... after the memogate fiasco, and the embarrassment to CBS ... Rather will fade away quickly. Very quickly ...

[plangent]

The only way John Roberts has held on this long is to toady to Rather's
insatiable hate of Republicans and anything on the conservative
side of politics.

Robert is a fitting substitude for bile-driven news and
a perfect choice to help CBS wither further on the vine.

[Lancey Howard]

Mr. Moonves said he felt compelled to inform the investigative panel of Mr. Rather's plans.

Translation: Moonves hopes the panel will now take it easy on Rather. No sense beating a dead horse, etc.

[spinestein]

The question of the day is: Will his replacement be MORE or LESS biased and intellectually dishonest than D.R..

[Lancey Howard]

There is no turning back for Rather - - no possibility for redemption, and no amount of spin that can change anything. Rather will always be, first and foremost, the crooked newsman who tried to corrupt a Presidential election by using forged documents to support a one-sided hit-piece interview with a Kerry fundraiser just weeks before the election. THAT will be Rather's well-deserved epitath. I don't care when the scumbag retires.

[WorkingClassFilth]

One more terror ally down. Rather is the Ace of Clubs in the Deck of Weasels:

http://www.newsmax.com/weasels/images/A-clubs.gif

[Theresawithanh]

It's not an abrupt enough move for me. Rather has been fabricating stories for awhile, the fake Vietnam Vets story years ago, and the fake ANG memo. He should've been sacked long ago.

[Peacerose]

Abrupt?! Abrupt???

I've been under the impression for the last four years that a retirement announcement could be expected from Dan following the 2004 elections.

[Raycpa]

"One reason I wanted to do this now was to make the truth clear - this is separated from that."

Truth ? Do you mean fake but accurate ?

[MinuteGal]

"I feel born again", Rather stated. "Not in a religious sense. Born again because I see the path".

You may see the path, Danny boy, but you'll never know the frequency.

Leni

[kayak]

Both he and Leslie Moonves, CBS's chairman and co-president of its parent company, Viacom, emphasized that the timing of the announcement was dictated by events largely out of their control.
...
In a measure of the awkward predicament in which CBS finds itself ...


Sorry, CBS. That doesn't wash. These events were entirely within your control ... you made the decision to air the fabricated story, hoping to bring down the President. You didn't "find" yourself in this predicament ... you put yourself there!

[Aussie Dasher]

And he can take Helen Thomas with him!!!

[Still German Shepherd]

Methinks this officially marks the end of an era (the old mainstream media.)

[Still German Shepherd]

Methinks this officially marks the end of an era (the old mainstream media.)

[savedbygrace]

Abrupt? This was announced months ago. What's the big deal?

[beyond the sea]

Dan Rather thinks he has a distinguished career. Maybe, maybe not. (distinguished from what - decency?)

Now that career is EXTINGUISHED.

Time for a celebration!

[newslady]

Dan Rather who??? I've been boycotting him since he insulted Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush in his 1988 interview. So he will not be missed by me, nor will I notice that he is gone. I don't and won't watch CBS--I get my news from Fox and the internet.

[danmar]

"I'm just crazy enough to get up every morning saying to myself with great enthusiasm, 'I'm sure the next big story, the biggest story I'll ever cover, is right there around the corner,' " he said. "It might happen today. And, boy, do I want to be there covering it."

Well Danno(to bad you are my name sake) you mess with Texas's real man, you get your ass whooped, even thou you are from Texas.

Dan, it looks like you lost your roots, where you came from and what journalism is all about, namely reporting the news of the day, no more no less.

Instead you chose to "change/better" the world, to socialize our society,with/thru your slanted/politicized and biased so called reporting which in terms and finally caught up with you, finishing up your carrier in disgrace and forcing you into early retirement with the stigma "Phony Blather".

In closing to my rant I would say that after your 25+ Years of "Journalistic Integrity" to end up like this it is pretty pathetic...Danno you never grew up!

[O Neill]

...this is separated from that.

Let me tell you this about that. This is the origin of the spin that perturbs the truth of that. That is NOT separated from this. This is intimately entwined with that.

You sir, are a...see?...BS artist. This is the message of that...