CBS made him do it. He didn't want to apologize. He was coerced.
I bet Dan Rather's lawsuit really has Katie Couric ticked off.
She'll have to report on the disgrace of CBS, at least a little bit.
Staff at CBS News should steer clear of the physically abusive Katie "I sort of slapped him around" Couric.
Read Byron York's "Dan Rather’s Conspiracy Theory."
In the suit, Rather alleges that he was forced to apologize for the Bush story as part of a conspiracy by top CBS management to ensure that no further damaging revelations about the president’s time in the Texas Air National Guard would become public. Rather also alleges that CBS hired a private investigator to re-report the original story — after Rather threatened to hire his own private eye to do the same thing — and that the investigator found the story to be accurate, only to have his findings suppressed by CBS as part of an effort to curry favor with the Bush White House. Finally, Rather alleges that CBS fired him over the story the day after Bush was reelected, despite his later claims that his departure was separate from the Bush story.
This is not good.
Rather should just go quietly.
To salvage his legacy, he should take a cue from Al Gore. Rather should find a cause, make a "documentary," and win an Oscar and an Emmy, maybe even a Nobel Peace Prize.
Isn't that better than $70 million?
“I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.”
-- Dan Rather on The O'Reilly Factor, May 15, 2001
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