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Dan Rather To Appear On Fox News Today
Dan Blather Rather will sit down with Neil Cavuto today on Fox News to discuss the dismissal of his phony lawsuit. It should be an interesting exchange.
(hat tip NewsBusters)
Most Of Dan Rather’s Lawsuit Against CBS Thrown Out
A judicial hearing officer allowed Dan Rather’s conspiracy laden lawsuit to go forward today, but threw out all the silly conspiracy portions of it, which in effect rendered the suit nothing more than your typical contract dispute.
The lawyer said it was hard to see how the ex-anchor’s assertion of a conspiracy between CBS and the Bush administration “will have any traction going forward”.
Instead of accepting responsibility for his incredibly shoddy journalism and simply apologizing, Rather claimed the whole “Rathergate” scandal was a conspiracy between the White House and CBS News executives. The convoluted story Rather laid out in his lawsuit was so preposterous that it almost makes you almost feel sorry for him.
A man once considered a titan of journalism has been reduced to a crazy old guy mumbling to himself about his former employer conspiring with The White House to do him in.
-Chris Jones
Video: Dan Rather Still Making Excuses For His Shoddy Journalism
Dan Rather STILL Claims Bush Documents Are Real
Dan Blather Rather is completely delusional. Apart from claiming a bizarre corporate media conspiracy to have him fired from CBS, Dan continues to maintain that the bogus Bush National Guard documents are in fact real.
I’m not sure it’s possible to offer any more proof that those damn documents were forgeries, and not very good forgeries at that.
Literally hundreds of thousands of people have looked at those documents since Dan broke the story, and the only person who still believes them to be real is Dan himself.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
THR: The documents were authentic?
Rather: The documents were a part of the story. But the story was about what is known, and questions unanswered, about President Bush’s service, and what we reported was true. This lawsuit is directed at Viacom, CBS, its ownership and its management. It has two parts: A contract with me that they broke, and the second part has to deal with fraud and how they handled the story. Basically, (it’s) the undue influence of the corporatization and the politicization of news coverage, some of which I didn’t know was happening at the time. Some goes back to our breaking the story of Abu Ghraib.
THR: But were the National Guard documents authentic?
Rather: I believe they are authentic. I believed it at the time, I believe it now.
THR: So all the people who have pointed out, for example, that the particular font on the documents didn’t even exist back then, they are wrong?
Rather: I’m glad you asked about that because, unfortunately, there has been a lot written and said about it, saying they were bogus, they were forgeries, none of which has stood up. But I do want to come back to the documents being just part of the story. The core of the story — what a journalist tries to do — is get the truth, or as close to the truth as possible. We did that. Our story was true.
-Chris Jones
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