Mr. Dan Rather

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  Rising through the ranks of CBS, from reporting for Houston's affiliate and then the White House in the early 1960s to being named anchor of the CBS Evening News some twenty years later, Dan Rather has always put himself in the center of controversy.Saying he "volunteered" to do so might be an overstatement, but past incidents, like claiming to have seen the JFK's Zapruder film, though misreporting its details, have pit him at the center of more than one WTF moment.
  
  And then there was Memogate, leading to his ouster in 2005.He's since resurfaced, anchoring a show for HDNet and suing his former employer.And those are just two of his soapboxes.Elsewhere, he's become a vociferous critic of the media.

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  There's also the matter of a van reportedly "full of explosives" stopped at the George Washington Bridge, as told to me by Dan Rather, CNN, and the Jerusalem Post.

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  Dan Rather to Appear on Fox Business Network This Evening
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  Tonight at 6pm, according to an FBN press staffer, Neil Cavuto will be interviewing Dan Rather on FBN about subjects ranging from presidential politics to Mr. Rather's recent talk with the late Benazir Bhutto.
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  Somewhere, Dan Rather is smiling.
  
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  Dan Rather Provides Bhutto Analysis for CNN
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  Last night, Dan Rather emerged from the cable news ether to speak at length with CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the late former prime minister of Pakistan.
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  Throughout the segment, CNN played clips of Mr. Rather's recent interview with Ms. Bhutto for his show on HDNet (which you can watch above), and Mr. Blitzer peppered the Category 5 Newsman with questions about her qualities as a leader.
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  "She saw, perhaps better than most, the depth of the feeling of radical Islamic terrorists and she wanted to do something about it," said Mr. Rather.
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  Most notably, Mr. Hagan reports that within months of leaving CBS, Mr. Rather hired a team of three investigators to try to shed light on the ultimate mystery surrounding CBS's September 2004 flawed story on President Bush's National Guard service--that is, the origin of the documents at the heart of the controversy. read more »
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  Former aviator hired to investigate documents was taken off the case by CBSâ€"now, Dan wants him to talk. read more »
  
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  Dan Rather's Lawyer: This Is Not a Defamation Claim
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  Last week, lawyers for CBS filed a motion to dismiss Dan Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against them in New York State Supreme Court.
  
  One of their arguments is that Mr. Rather is essentially bringing a defamation charge against the network.Yesterday we caught up with Mr. Rather's lawyer, Martin Gold. read more »
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  The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar -- who's actually, you know, a lawyer -- has taken a close look at Dan Rather's lawsuit and CBS's motion to dismiss it, and concluded that it has merit enough not to get thrown out before discovery.
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  Yesterday, in New York Supreme Court, CBS lawyers filed a motion to dismiss Dan Rather's civil lawsuit against the network, alleging that their former Voice of God news anchor was out to "settle old scores" and "to misuse the discovery process and the power of subpeona in an effort to vindicate his own faulty reporting."
  
  Today, in a statement released to Media Mob, Mr. Rather's lead attorney, Marty Gold, responded:
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  "It is unfortunate that CBS is trying to delay discovery of the facts and a trial of Dan's claims.
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  Wanna see a clip of Katie Couric making fun of Dan Rather for trying to decide whether to wear his coat open or closed?

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  Published on: 1/9/2008    Last Visited: 1/10/2008  

  On Wednesday afternoon, in New York Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan, Justice Ira Gammerman decided to allow Dan Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against his former bosses to move forward into the discovery phase.
  
  Afterwards, Mr. Rather stood in the hallway outside the courtroom, surrounded by reporters, and said he was "pleased" by the justice's decision, which would "put us on the road" to finding out "what really happened."
  
  Among other charges, Mr. Rather has alleged that White House operatives leaned on CBS and Viacom executives behind the scenes, during the aftermath of CBS News' flawed story on President Bush's military record, which Mr. Rather and his colleagues produced in September 2004.
  
  On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Rather said that he was prepared "to go hard and go long" in his pursuit of answers in the case, even if that pursuit took him all the way into the back corridors of Washington.
  
  Throughout Wednesday's hearing, lawyers for CBS had tried to convince the justice to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that CBS had in no way breached Mr. Rather's contract and calling the rest of Mr. Rather's various claims "window dressing."
  
  At one point, the lawyer for the defendants compared Mr. Rather to Chad Pennington, arguing that in television as in football, you can bench your quarterback (or your star anchor) as long as you continue to pay his contract.
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  Back in the hallway after the hearing, Mr. Rather, who had just flown into New York from New Hampshire, where he had been covering the presidential campaign for HDNet, patiently answered questions.
  
  One reporter asked Mr. Rather if the comparison to Chad Pennington was a fair one.
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  Mr. Rather answered by pointing out that he was in the TV hall of fame.
  
  Another reporter asked Mr. Rather if it was surreal to find himself on the other side of the court aisle from his longtime employers.
  
  "There's nothing surreal about this," said Mr. Rather."It's real."
  
  UPDATE: Dan Rather's lawyer Martin Gold just released the following statement:
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  We look forward to discussing with Mr. Rather's representatives what that scope might be.
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  Dan Rather's Lawyer: This Is Not a Defamation Claim
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  CBS "Mystified" by Dan Rather's "Bizarre Allegations", Files Motion to Dismiss

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  Dan Rather's Last Big Scoop
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  Dan Rather's Last Big Scoop
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  Dan Rather Defends Lawsuit to Larry King
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  A few years ago, Dan Rather's producer told The New Yorker's Ken Auletta, "A lot of people know Dan, and nobody knows him."
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  A few years ago, Dan Rather's producer told The New Yorker's Ken Auletta, "A lot of people know Dan, and nobody knows him."
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  These days, a lot of people know why Mr. Rather is doing what he is doing, and nobody knows why.The category-5 newsman continues to baffle.
  
  At issue is Mr. Rather's decision, announced Sept. 19, to file a lawsuit against CBS, Viacom, Les Moonves, Sumner Redstone and Andrew Heyward for their treatment of him after CBS aired a flawed report on President Bush's National Guard duty in September 2004.
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  In interviews since the announcement, Mr. Rather has suggested various motives.He's talked about the importance of a free press to democracy, and, in more prosaic moments, he's advanced the unusual complaint that CBS was paying him a full day's salary for less than a full day's work.But the overall portrait has been of a restless newshound chasing one more hunch."This is a story … that has a lot of questions to it," Mr. Rather told MSNBC on Friday morning."And you know, we're at the point, let's get people under oath."
  
  The case might never get that far, of course.It could be tossed out in summary judgment, or Mr. Rather could be persuaded to settle with CBS, which has every incentive to avoid a public rehashing of an episode it would rather keep in its rearview mirror.But if Mr. Rather does have one more big story left in him, what might he be hoping to uncover?Through a spokesperson, Mr. Rather declined to comment."We want to see anything that can shed light on the merits of Dan's case," said Rebecca Hughes Parker, one of Mr. Rather's attorneys on the suit."We want to see anything that can shed light on the merits of Dan's case," said Rebecca Hughes Parker, one of Mr. Rather's attorneys on the suit.
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  "We now know that an investigator was hired by CBSâ€"what I call a mystery manâ€"who wasn't even mentioned in the report," said Mr. Rather.
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  Good luck, Dan!
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  This is so much better that Howie Kurtz's astonishingly unfair crucifixion of Dan Rather on last week's "Reliable Sources."
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  Mr. Rather's Complaint is a lengthy fact pleading searching for a cognizable cause of action, and I would go so far as to say that it's a "defamation lawsuit in disguise," only the gist of it seems to borrow from the concept of "self-compelled defamation" in employment law, i.e., "You made me apologize for that 60 MINUTES II story even though I didn't want to, and you made me look bad as a result."Rather's chief difficulty is that New York's one-year statute of limitations on defamation actions has extinguished that route, and his pleading is otherwise very thin.
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  I sure hope Dan has something on CBS that's worth the defamation he did to himself with the stipulation in his lawsuit.Among them:
  
  * He admits to demanding a maximum amount of airtime on CBS in his last contract for nothing more than his own career vanity, even though he knew he wouldn't be able to be fully involved in his reporting.
  
  * Despite claiming that the corporation feared him as a maverick reporter, he also admits to completely rolling over for the company ... saying whatever they wanted him to say and shutting up when they demanded it.
  
  * Dan indicates that he, in effect, accepted what he felt to be a completely unfair and biased report even though it destroyed the careers of close colleagues; he only changed course when CBS didn't subsequently give him the airtime to which he felt entitled.
  
  How could anything CBS does make him look any worse than what's in his own lawsuit?
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  don't get bucked off that horse. go get 'em, Dan!
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  Documented proof that Dan Rather was anti-USA, wingnut moron--and from legitimate sources, not wingnut blogs and web sites.
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  If Dan Rather can, by his lawsuit, bring to light the whole truth of Bush's non-service in the military, he will have done the country a big favor.
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  Dan Rather, even before he knowingly broadcast demonstrably fraudulent documents, was a disgrace to American journalism.
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  Dan Rather's Last Big Scoop Events for September 22-24, 2007
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  Dan Rather Defends Lawsuit to Larry King
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  Dan Rather's Long Goodbye: Who Done It?

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  On Wednesday afternoon, in New York Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan, Justice Ira Gammerman decided to allow Dan Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against his former bosses to move forward into the discovery phase.
  
  Afterwards, Mr. Rather stood in the hallway outside the courtroom, surrounded by reporters, and said he was "pleased" by the justice's decision, which would "put us on the road" to finding out "what really happened."
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  Dan Rather's Lawyer: This Is Not a Defamation Claim
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  Last week, lawyers for CBS filed a motion to dismiss Dan Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against them in New York State Supreme Court.
  
  One of their arguments is that Mr. Rather is essentially bringing a defamation charge against the network.Yesterday we caught up with Mr. Rather's lawyer, Martin Gold. read more »
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  CBS "Mystified" by Dan Rather's "Bizarre Allegations", Files Motion to Dismiss
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  Today, in New York Supreme Court, in response to Dan Rather's civil lawsuit, CBS filed a lengthy 30-page motion to dismiss the case.
  
  CBS executives also released a statement today, noting that they are "mystified" by Rather's "bizarre allegations" but will "vigorously" defend themselves in court if need be.
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  Tomorrow, Thursday November 15, marks an important date in Dan Rather's civil lawsuit against CBS.
  
  CBS has until the end of the day, according to members of Mr. Rather's legal team, to file its motion to dismiss argument in response to Mr. Rather's suit.

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  Dan Rather Is Boring, Repetitive But Not Sexist
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  Dan Rather has made quite a mess for himself lately, what with his recent comments about the degeneration of CBS' primetime network news broadcast, the awkward potshots directed at Les Moonves, and the highly controversial remarks that may or may not have been targeted at third-place news anchor, Katie Couric.

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  Still Not Over His Downfall, Dan Rather Pounds the Rest of the Media

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  push your nose on the glass Danny, how is it to be on the outside looking in.
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  Dan Rather "If Sarah Palin had said this".
  
  A prominent media type(Rather) being interviewed on MSNBC claiming there is blatant media bias for Obama.
  
  Dan Rather; (paraphrasing) "If Sarah had said the US will be attacked within six months of McCain being elected President, the media would have had the story above 'the fold'.

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  Deadbeat, the issue is that yours (and Dan's) argument is purely ideological.
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  There's also the matter of a van reportedly "full of explosives" stopped at the George Washington Bridge, as told to me by Dan Rather, CNN, and the Jerusalem Post.

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