Posted on 09/21/2009 4:18:34 PM PDT by Palin Republic
A New York judge on Monday rejected CBS Corp's bid to dismiss former TV news anchor Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit claiming he was fired over a controversial election-year report on former President George W. Bush's Vietnam War-era military service.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Ira Gammerman set a December 22 hearing in the case and directed that testimony be taken from witnesses, including Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Viacom Inc, which controlled CBS at the time.
"Let's get this case moving," Gammerman said. "I would really like to get this case ready for trial."
Rather, 77, sued CBS, its Chief Executive Leslie Moonves and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward for fraud over his firing from the network, his home for more than four decades, over the report on Bush's military record.
CBS has acknowledged it could not authenticate documents used in the September 8, 2004 report, which aired two months before Bush won a second term in the White House, defeating Democrat John Kerry.
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Sounds like an Obamajudge. Rather lied. CBS should have fired him.
Can we fire the head Loon??
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cbs/redstone_thornburgh_depositions_allowed_in_dan_rather_case_against_cbs_136369.asp
Redstone, Thornburgh Depositions Allowed in Dan Rather Case Against CBS
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/09/new-york-judge-rules-that-dan-rathers-attorneys-can-depose-sumner-redstone.html
Dan Rather’s attorneys can depose Sumner Redstone, New York judge rules
Ahhhhhh, those were heady days. One of our own taking down the d-bag at See BS!
Courage Dan, courage!
hopefully $70 million is enough to bankrupt cbs
Hey Blather, here's a novel idea for you. How about letting the TRUTH decide what we see on the news, you putz.
PJ, funny that Rathergate would be in the news as we approach the fifth anniversary of the DUFUs tomorrow. That was the story in the news when the DUFUs started.
Rat Fight!!!
It’s so hard to know which side to root for in this match-up . . .
Nazis-Soviets
Iran-Iraq
Rather-CBS
Too bad one of them has to win.
Love it! Will they give us day by day court reports?
Rather will die of old age before this comes to trial.
CBS just needs to run out the clock
Good.
CBS & Dan Rather deserve each other.
Hope this drags out as long as humanly possible, costing each side untold millions.
Those were some great days in election coverage:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217172/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212980/posts?page=60
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040914.asp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213232/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1213174/posts
THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE DAN AWAY
Tune: "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-haaa!"
Remember when I broke the news
How Bush got in the Guard
And didn't have to leave
To go to Vietnam?
Well . . .
I pushed that story hard
Just weeks before Election Day
And so of course you know
The thoughts I had in my mind
Like . . .
They're going to give me a prize, Ha-ha!
They're going to give me a prize, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
For a journalist
Who helps the Democrats all the time
And I'll be happy to put
That nice award
In my trophy case
And they're going to give me a prize, Ha-haaa!
You thought it was a fake
And so you cringed
You cringed when people said
That superscript was not done at that time
Right . . .
The people laughed, I heard them laugh
They laughed, they laughed and laughed
You made me leave
But now you know I'm Rather upset!
So . . .
I'm going to take you to court, Ha-ha!
I'm going to take you to court, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
For a tidy sum
Like six--no, seventy million bucks
And put me back on the Evening News
And make all the viewers watch
And I'm going to take you to court, Ha-haaa!
I read your news
I gave my views
And this is how you pay me back
For all my years of bold unbiased news?!
Hah . . .
Well, you just wait
I'll find the proof
And when I do
They'll know that Dan is not some sort of old unbalanced nut!
'Cause . . .
They're coming to take me away, Ha-ha!
They're coming to take me away, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
To the Kinko's store
Where fake but accurate faxes fly
And I'll be happy to see
Those daring scoops
Come across my desk
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!
To the anchor desk
With lights and cameras and breaking news
And four producers who sit and smile
And tell me that I'm the best
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!
To the Kinko's store
Where fake but accurate faxes fly
And I'll be happy to see
Those daring scoops
Come across my desk
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!
Bookmarked !
Thanks !
Wonder if this does get to court they will call in the freeper folks that discovered he lied and faked a report ?
77?
This lawsuit will be dead when he is dead.
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