Then Dan Rather becaue, well, Dan Rather gets the boot! It has nothing whatsoever to do with his presentation of forged documents. Nope. Honest. Really. That's what they are saying.
NEW YORK — CBS executives have decided there is no future role at the network for Dan Rather, making it certain that the man who sat in the anchor chair for 24 years will depart by this fall.
These executives recognize Rather's contributions over four decades and are not trying to boot him because of the controversy surrounding his botched story on President Bush and the National Guard, say network sources who declined to be named while discussing a sensitive personnel matter. But the executives concluded there was no room for Rather at "60 Minutes," particularly with incoming anchor Katie Couric planning to report a half-dozen stories a year and the hiring of CNN's Anderson Cooper as a part-time contributor.
No, Really. Honest it has nothing to do with the forged memos. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see, move along.
It looks like Dan got his very own "Decent Interval", doesn't it? Sort of fitting that his career ends the same way the war he helped lose.
UPDATE: Others: Outside the Beltway and ChicagoBoyz
