[wagglebee]

"You lied, Dan. You screwed your viewers – and your colleagues. Not because you got the story wrong. All good journalists get it wrong sometimes. You screwed everybody with your scorched-earth stubbornness, refusing to listen to colleagues who urged you to admit your mistake as you stonewalled for 10 days – and insulting the press and CBS viewers/bloggers who questioned your pathetic ‘official documents.'

Perfect!

[RightWingAtheist]

How low can you go when a journalist at the National Inquirer chews you out?

[nopardons]

bttt

[LibertarianInExile]

Is this the guy that is on Howard Stern doing the 'Which is the fake news' bit? If so, I'm now very impressed with Mike Walker. I might even go buy a copy of the Enquirer instead of just leafing through it in the checkout line. 8)

[bootless]

I heard him on Lee Rodgers' show on KSFO this morning ...he was terrific. After the mention of the pajama-clad bloggers, Lee mentioned that it tuned out to be "a high-powered lawyer from Atlanta." hee hee. Thank you, Buckhead!

I loved his fake-Ratherisms. The best was when he told his publisher, "Don't strangle the rooster - it might be trying to tell you something." He meant us! The publisher said, "Oh, I think I heard him say that." Walker said, "No, *I* said that!"

[stevem]

I'm also getting angry because this is a guy that I know would sneer at me, would sneer at the National Enquirer.

Usually, I don't read the National Enquirer because its stories tend to be more sensational than newsworthy. I have read articles, though. The thing of it is is the NE treats editorial requirements with respect. They do a far better job of being an objective news organization than does the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and, as we have seen, CBS News.

[Balata]

Walker: Because they are afraid of him. In my perusal of Dan's career I came up with all kinds of things that I'd never heard about, and I assembled a picture of this guy that was appalling. Here is this guy who, as Bernard Goldberg said, if CBS were a prison, every vice president there would be one of Dan's bitches.

LOL!

Looks like Dan will be going out, not with a "bang", but a "whimper".

[beyond the sea]

But when this thing stretched out for 10 days, I knew what was going on. And when I read the panel's report, all 211 pages of it, I discovered that a couple of days into the thing people like Josh Howard, who was the producer of "60 Minutes Wednesday," told CBS to come clean and let it all hang out. But it didn't. Other CBS executives said the same.

And why did Dan continue to stonewall and stonewall........ only one answer seems possible. The love of a father for a daughter. Maybe he was protecting his daughter, Robin, who may have been involved in all the Texas intrigue with respect to the "source" of the documents. That seems to me the only reason Dan would be take such a ridiculous stance.

[Sally II]

Interesting article. I have to admit, I didn't realize what a dumba$$ Dan Rather was until his interview with Saddam Hussein a few years ago. Was anyone impressed by that interview? I was so pointless and sensationalistic. It was shameful to see a prominent American newsman kissing the dictator's butt on national tv, while we were on the verge of going to war.

[buffyt]

Just saw him on O'Reilly. I may just have to read this book.