........."This was a man who moved with a surefootedness and determination that if it wasn't ruthlessness, it was just short of it." Terrence Smith.... said that for two decades the take on Rather was "great reporter, awkward anchor." "And, yet, nobody said it in public.... "Now you hear some of the most senior and respected voices at CBS - Andy Rooney, Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite - saying these things. ... So, the question is: Why the bruising comments as he goes out the door?" Smith suggests that while the flawed story on Bush is a key part of the...