Posted on 01/10/2005 5:24:25 PM PST by Swanks
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 explained in a memo: "Dan Rather has already apologized for the segment and taken responsibility for his part in the broadcast. He voluntarily moved to set a date to step down from the CBS EVENING NEWS in March of 2005... after examining the report and thinking about its implications, we believe any further action would not be appropriate."
I am a loving, kind, sensitive, and forgiving man. And thinking about all the things Dan Rather has accomplished in his career, I feel...no sympathy.
Dan Rather follows in his communist predecesors foot steps.
Say good night Walter. Say good night Dan.
Maybe they should show him sitting in the corner facing the wall somewhere in the background as a part of the live broadcast.
RATHER "Nixonian" of Dan to hunker down and hide at home.
I don't want Rather's scalp. He's of more use to us sitting in that anchor chair forever tainted.
I DO want an apology..for the President. The one thing CBS will never do.
Tom's gone, Dan's soon to be gone. If we can just get that damned Canadian off the air, life will be good.....
IOW they vant him to reach for the pistol left on the table.
The former reflects very badly on the man of "Courage" and the latter looks like damage control from CBS.
This is going to get real juicy.
Look for Dan to disappear earlier than the March time frame. (Then again who would know...)
The woman being interviewed on O'Reily tonight didn't mince words. She said simply, Mapes is a liar.
I would be a week's pay that she's already booked on the lib lecture circuit, she's got a book AND movie deal in the works :-(
Actually she said Mapes was psycho-path and a liar...
Well she is a martyr, after all.
I don't visit DU, but I am wondering why we don't have a DU Funnies update on this.
Hanity today was right on in that the report totally ignored the political bias aspect and focused on sloppy journalism. Which if you investigate the tagline I am using will show how ironic this whole TANG forged document flap is. Dan Rather has lectured journalists on correct procedure regarding stories (see tag line) and yet when cornered he said that CBS had done everything right and stood by the Story. He knew better and lied to the public destroying his credibility to try to take down George W Bush.
Let me make the tagline link a little easier
I like how the report credited the perfect journalistic storm as including the fact that their seasoned anchor backed the story and that is why CBS goofed.
Yes, Dan you belong in the woodshed.
Congratulations to Mat Drudge, less bias, more accuracy and many days faster with the news that people need.
You mean the pistol brought in by the "frog with side pockets"?
He NEVER apologized to the President.
Somebody CBS biggie had been at the White House last week on bended knee. The apology will come soon.
"I don't want Rather's scalp."
I find it enough that this whole, sorry episode has become known as "Rathergate." I think this above all, is what is so galling to him.
Exactly, I actually think a lot of her palaver is crocodile tears Ms. Mapes is going to be sitting pretty financially after all this. Her pension from cBiaSed is going to look rather paltry compared the mother lode she is going to cash in on now. Another chance to spew her acidic vitriol against GW. She will be moonbats' martyr to the evil Republicans.
My stars! Can't believe how much Rather looks like Nixon in that cartoon! Thanks, Constitution Day!
This asute find last nite from Howlin ....
...Heyward was “working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,” our source says, “and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.”
Fruedian slip - but they in effect admit they were after the Bushies.
Perhaps a spot in the DNC, she's already got the contacts.
O'Really claims none of this is Dan's fault. He didn't have time to research the story himself because he just returned from covering the Convention.
I think that person was Heyward.
The intention was to assure the W.H. it was never personal, it was never political driven.
If they cannot admit the truth I can't see an apology forthcoming any time soon.
Love your artwork!!!
Well, I want to say this after what has happened. If this short of thing happened to Brit Hume or anyone else on fox, Brit Hume would have been fired and heads would have rolled more for fox! Dan Blather got away with just a slap on the wrist!
HardBall planning an hour of journalism naval-gazing at 9 pm. Actually, spin control I am sure. Keith Over-his-Head's "Rather" piece on MSNBC was about the lies of the Swift Boat vets and Armstrong Williams. (Shouldn't the CBS successful investigation be the benchmark for these to tragedys.... )
I can imagine Nixon is smiling. :-D
This is why Old Dan is sitting home and pouting........the CBS honchos
promised him they'd "stick to the story line" that Rather is "retiring".
They lied.
They got away with the Lehman forgeries in Kerry's military papers, why wouldn't they have gotten away with some additional forgeries about Bush.
What we should be dong s searching back over the tenure of the zealous liberal left-wingers and see what other stories they did are based on forgeries. How many times has 60 Minutes waved a document in the face of some corporate officer and hit him over the head with it? They were forgeries!!!
Proof that Dan was intentionally try to fake evidence to sink Bush is, of course, in the fact that he never once mentioned what Kerry might have been hiding by his refusal to sign an SF-180. This would have been much more interesting to an honest "journalist."
The two bozo's (Thornburgh + ??) who authored the P-O-S report, on Larry King live. I suppose as an alternative view, we have on LKL.... Bob Schiffer !
Les Monnvies on MSNBC hitting softballs pitched by Dan Abrams. (What was CBS' biggest mistake here, Les?)
At least Fox had Bernard Goldberg....
The odious Rather has always been anti-Republican, way back from the Nixon days: Nixon: "Are you running for something?" Rather: "No sir, are you?"
Then his confrontation with Bush 41 when Dad asked Rather if he wanted his entire career to be judged on the time he threw a tantrum and walked off the set.
Rather HATES the Bush family - I think it's partly his innate knee-jerk liberalism, and there may be a "Texas" element added in there, too.
LOl excellent idea.
If Dan Rather doesn't go on the air, will anyone notice?
Further, watch for her to write a book or some other hit piece on President Bush.
Goldberg smacked Colmes (twice) for not listening to what he said. LOL!
I hate it when Alan gets that self righteous tone. How DARE someone accuse Dan of corrupting the evening news even when it is true.
Oh, great. Bernstein is on "corrupting" H&C. BTW, Rathergate is about the collusion of CBS & the DNC to take down a sitting president. I would put this on par with a "criminal" president carl.
Bernstein claiming the Swift Boat Vets were liars. He makes me want to smack him! I still think he lied about Watergate.
I believe in redemption and 2nd chances. Unfortunetly, Dan Rather is on his 92nd chance.
"Mapes is going to be the darling of the Hollywood-Michael Moore set."
My thought was that she was going to take a job with MoveOn.
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