Shrub's only legacy: REVENGE on b.f.e.e. enemies

[Ralph Wiggum]

Bush Derangement Syndrome never goes away, it just comes back more potent in threads like this!

UTUSN (36,217 posts)

Shrub's only legacy: REVENGE on b.f.e.e. enemies: CBS not inviting Dan RATHER to JFK special



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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/invited-join-cbs-kennedy-coverage-20786958

Rather Not Invited to Join CBS Kennedy Coverage

By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer

.... Rather, who later became CBS News' top anchor for 24 years, will appear on NBC's "Today" show on Nov. 22 this year.

"I held off doing anything for anybody else for a while, thinking I may be asked to do something (for CBS)," Rather said. "I can't say I had any reason for that hope."

Rather worked at CBS News for 44 years. His downfall came as a result of a 2004 story about President George W. Bush's military service. Under criticism, the network concluded the story couldn't be substantiated, but Rather has stood behind it. His tenure as anchor ended six months later and he left CBS in 2006, eventually filing a $70 million lawsuit against his old employers that was thrown out in 2010 by New York's highest court. ....

He sprang into action when it became clear something had gone terribly wrong. Rather described in his 1977 book, "The Camera Never Blinks," that CBS radio went with his report that Kennedy was dead — based not on official confirmation but his phone conversations with men who identified themselves as a doctor and priest at the hospital where Kennedy was taken, and a colleague's conversation with the hospital's chief of staff.

It was an extraordinary risk: if Rather was wrong, he conceded his career in journalism likely would have ended there.

Days later, Rather was among the first people to see film of the assassination taken by Abraham Zapruder and he later described it live on CBS, reading from a spiral notebook what it captured of the president and first lady at the moment of impact. CBS failed, however, to acquire rights to the film. ....

[Skul]

It was an extraordinary risk: if Rather was wrong, he conceded his career in journalism likely would have ended there.

Gee whiz, numbnutz, what happened when he was totally wrong on GWB?  Can you say...>PLONK<
Rather spread a lie, and doubled down when it was proven a lie.  Had he admitted his mistake, he would probably still be working.

[Dori]

I'm really surprised how they have treated Rather.  These broadcast shows lie all the time and have been caught at it with no consequence.  I don't see where Rather was any worse than the rest of them.  Maybe there is more inside stuff on him that we don't know about.

[Maxiest]

I know Dan was a liberal, but I always enjoyed watching a listening to him as a kid.  He had one of the last, what I call, "Classic" news voices.