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RATHER STAYS HOME; EXECUTIVES SPLIT; MOONVES LOOKS TOWARDS FUTURE *Exclusive** CBSNEWS veteran Don Hewitt called Dan Rather's disappearance from Monday's Evening News "really stupid" during a damage control meeting on Monday, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. One top source inside the CBS Broadcast Center claimed Rather was told to stay off the air on Monday, as a form of punishment! Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer was called in to anchor the damaged ship. CBS staffers were shocked Monday when CBS president Les Moonves suddenly tied Rather's upcoming resignation to the phony document flap, a departure from CBS's official storyline. Moonves...

OCTOBER 13, 2004 TO: Bob Schieffer, C(BS) FROM: Dan Rather (Biased), C(BS) I think tonight's debate should be dramatically different from the first two. I think Bush and Kerry should come out with two buckets of fish each. For each question, they should be given thirty seconds and then for the rebuttal - the opposing candidate will reach down into the bucket, pull out some huge striped bass and begin clobbering his opponent seneslessly! That way the candidates will have a 50-50 chance of showing the country what they're made of. Now that would be a debate! Note to Peta,...

Longtime CBS newsman and "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer said Monday that the Rathergate forged document scandal has been "a terrible blow" to the network's credibility. "I love CBS. I love the people who work here. This is a terrible blow to all of us," Schieffer told the ABC Radio network's Sean Hannity. "It's hurt us in two ways," Schieffer said. "Clearly, it's hurt our credibility. But it's also like somebody just came up and kicked us in the stomach. It's hurt us emotionally." The top CBS newsman made his comments as the latest ratings for the CBS "Evening...

FREEP Bob Schieffer, who is supposed to moderate the 3rd debate. Clearly, CBS should not be rewarded for MemoGate. Plus it may force Schieffer to put pressure on Dan Rather to resign and/or apologize. To send an e-mail: ftn@cbsnews.com Phone: (202) 457-4481 Third presidential debate: Arizona State University Tempe, AZ Wednesday, October 13 Bob Schieffer CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Moderator, Face the Nation

Bob Schieffer: Edwards' Rise Means Hillary Draft CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer warned Friday that if Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry can't decisively defeat Sen. John Edwards in the remaining primaries, Democrats will likely turn to New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to be their party's standard-bearer in July. "I'll say this - you heard it here first," Schieffer told radio host Don Imus. "Just mark my words. If it gets to this convention and it's not settled, I think Hillary Clinton is back in the ball game." "If it gets that far, you'll hear a Draft Hillary movement,"...

The New York Times is outraged that President Bush failed to breach his own heavy security, and inform its reporters and editors in advance of his secret Thanksgiving trip to visit with American G.I.s in Baghdad. The President also failed to inform the al Qaeda and Baathist leaderships, respectively, of his trip. Security was so tight for the trip, since otherwise Saddam-loyalists and terrorists active in Iraq would surely have attempted to assassinate the President. On November 22, enemy fighters armed with shoulder-fired missiles hit an A-300 DHL Express freight plane in the left wing, as it took off from...

Oswald's mother helped reporter get close to big story He didn't know it, but history was calling him 11/21/2002 By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News Bob Schieffer, brooding because he wasn't part of the biggest news story in the whole world, grabbed the ringing telephone on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram city desk. A woman asked if anyone could give her a ride to Dallas. "Lady, this is not a taxi, and besides, the president has been shot," the young police reporter told her none too diplomatically. "I know," she said. "They think my son is the...