Rather Pathetic
Newsweek doesn't appear to be all that impressed with the lawsuit Dan Rather just brought against CBS. They have interviewed a number of people who are less than complimentary about the disgraced former anchor.
Hewitt says he had questioned whether the reporting was biased at a CBS meeting convened to discuss the controversy that began to swell after the story aired. “Let me ask one question,” he recalls addressing the gathering. “If this had been John Kerry, wouldn’t you have been more careful about the story?” A senior CBS News insider said Rather is further damaging his reputation by suing. “I think it looks pathetic,” this executive told NEWSWEEK on condition of not being identified. "It looks like the musing of an older man who can’t let go. This will have no winners. But the biggest loser will be Dan.”
And another former colleague questioned Rather’s motives, declaring that the former anchor is seeking to raise his profile in his post-CBS career at HDNet, a cable channel controlled by billionaire Mark Cuban. “Had he been a big success in his new life” at HDNet, this person speculated, “I don’t believe this would have happened. How do I get myself back into the news? Sue CBS, of course. All of a sudden, people are now talking about Dan Rather again.”
I mentioned when this first broke that this could be a calculated publicity stunt. Obviously, others suspect that as well. He is getting attention, but it isn't good attention, even from print media.
By daveinboca, Saturday, 22 September , 2007 @ 12:21 pm
When I was in the TV game, a roadie for Rather who accompanied him to Pakistan in 1981 for his breathless reporting from inside Afghanistan.
Only problem was, they never got near Afghanistan, according to this young guy who told me that Rather [and CBS] had hired a Paki movie crew, went to the hills outside Peshawar, and simulated gunfire & explosions while Dan courageously posed as an intrepid newsman.
All faked, just like Dan whose transparent phoniness brought the Tiffany network’s news operation into third place as permanent bottom-dweller in the TV evening news ratings race.
Rather pathetic is a nice way to describe this gutless spineless impostor.
Rather is a compleat fraud and a delusional narcissist.
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Saturday, 22 September , 2007 @ 4:08 pm
I am SO hoping this lawsuit goes to trial and we get to see Gunga Dan on the witness stand, marbles in hand.
By mockinbird, Sunday, 23 September , 2007 @ 8:03 am
What’s the frequency, Ken?
By Reta, Sunday, 23 September , 2007 @ 2:09 pm
C’mon, Newsweek. Give me a break puhleeze! Dan Rather conspired for many years for the downfall of the ‘right’ in this country vis a vis his anti-American viewpoints on just about everything and it would have been sweet payback had this accusation not been so patently and pathetically false. The man is grasping at straws to save his well-earned tarnished image. His spectacular fall from the heights of media grace needed no ‘right wing conspiracy.’ He ‘dood it’ all by him wittle self.