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AP: CBS News' Dan Rather to Step Down in March

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne.../ap_on_en_tv/tv_rather
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - Dan Rather, embattled anchor of the "CBS Evening News," announced Tuesday that he will step down in March, on the 24th anniversary of taking over the job from Walter Cronkite.

The veteran anchor has been under fire in recent months for his role in a "60 Minutes Wednesday" story that questioned President Bush (news - web sites)'s service in the National Guard, which turned out to based on allegedly forged documents.

Rather, 73, said he will continue to work for CBS, as a correspondent for both editions of "60 Minutes."

He made no mention of the National Guard story in announcing the change, saying he had agreed with CBS executives last summer that after the Nov. 2 election would be the right time to leave.

"I have always been and remain a `hard news' investigative reporter at heart," he said. "I now look forward to pouring my heart into that kind of reporting full time."

CBS made no mention of a potential successor.

Rather has worked at CBS News for more than 40 years and made his name as a reporter covering the Nixon White House. His nearly quarter-century at the helm of the "CBS Evening News" is the longest at the helm of any network evening broadcast.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne.../ap_on_en_tv/tv_rather
 
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Where's CBS's promised "investigation" on the forged memos which was promised would be finished in "weeks, not months?"
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Where is the White House investigation on the CIA leak, among others?

Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor

given documents he thought were true
failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
when confronted with the facts, apologized and launched an investigation
resigned as CBS News Anchor

George W. Bush, President of the United States

given documents he thought were true
failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
when confronted with the facts, twisted the truth and stonewalled an investigation
given four more years as President of the United States
 
I'm very happy with Rather, and wish he wasn't stepping down; tho I know he is very old and his time really has come.

But Rather gets kudos for not only sticking it to Bush I during his term, but also Bush II. And will be missed, in my book.
 
Originally posted by: aswedc
Where is the White House investigation on the CIA leak, among others?
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Maybe if you did a little research you'd know the answer to that?

George W. Bush, President of the United States

given documents he thought were true
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AFAIK, Bush himself never even saw the documents.

failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
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It's not the president's responsibility to "investigate the facts." The CIA and George "Slam Dunk" Tenet were supposed to do that and failed, pasing bad info on to Bush.

reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
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Erm...that's because his intelligence advisors told him it was true. It was also based on information from the UK which was not related to the Niger documents.

Bush's claim was not a lie either:

http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html

But what he said ? that Iraq sought uranium ? is just what both British and US intelligence were telling him at the time. So Bush may indeed have been misinformed, but that's not the same as lying.

when confronted with the facts, twisted the truth and stonewalled an investigation
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If you're going to slam someone on facts you better have your straight. Your assertion is untrue:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...Jun12?language=printer

A White House spokesman said yesterday, "We have acknowledged that some documents detailing a transaction between Iraq and Niger were forged and we no longer give them credence. They were, however, only once piece of evidence in a larger body of evidence suggesting Iraq attempted to purchase uranium from Africa."


As to the investigation, it's ongogin but going slowly. Maybe you should gripe about the democratic Senator Jay Rockafeller, since it's his baby and ask him why he's dragging his feet? Is there something the democrats don't want to divulge about these forgeries? Considering their recent involvement with other forgeries, I certainly wouldn't put it past them to have done these as well.

Here are some documents and reports on the case:

http://news.findlaw.com/legaln...it/iraq/documents.html

given four more years as President of the United States
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By a rather large majority too. Of course, it was the stupid people that did so. I'm sure some fact-filled person such as yourself didn't vote for that schmuck. :roll:
 
I'm very happy with Rather, and wish he wasn't stepping down; tho I know he is very old and his time really has come.

But Rather gets kudos for not only sticking it to Bush I during his term, but also Bush II. And will be missed, in my book.

That's exactly why he's getting the boot... he's been exposed as a partisan hack who doesn't let the truth get in the way of his agenda.
 
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
given four more years as President of the United States
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By a rather large majority [sic] too. Of course, it was the stupid people that did so. I'm sure some fact-filled person such as yourself didn't vote for that schmuck. :roll:
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:roll: :roll:
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
given four more years as President of the United States
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By a rather large majority [sic] too. Of course, it was the stupid people that did so. I'm sure some fact-filled person such as yourself didn't vote for that schmuck. :roll:
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:roll: :roll:
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Woah! conjur has mastered the rolleye rebuttal.

Bet your mom is mighty proud.
 
Here are some videos of him being knocked on his ass

31 Oct 1931 Dan Rather born, Wharton, TX.
1953 B.A. Journalism, Sam Houston State College, Huntsville TX.
1963 Chief, CBS Southern Bureau, New Orleans.
22 Nov 1963 Breaks news of John F. Kennedy assassination.
1963 "I told Rather to go to [Abraham] Zapruder's house, sock him in the jaw, take his film to our affiliate in Dallas, copy it onto videotape, and let the CBS lawyers decide whether it could be sold or whether it was in the public domain. And then take the film back to Zapruder's house and give it back to him. That way, the only thing they could get him for was assault because he would have returned Zapruder's property. Rather said, 'Great idea. I'll do it.'" Don Hewitt, Tell Me a Story (published 2001.)
1966 Vietnam War correspondent.
27 Aug 1968 TV newsman Dan Rather gets beaten up in front of cameras on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The reporter was trying to interview a delegate being dragged off the floor when the bruisers turn on him. "He lifted me right off the floor and put me away. I was down, the breath knocked out of me, as the whole group blew on by me... In the CBS control room, they had switched the camera onto me just as I was slugged."
c. Apr 1980 Ventures into Afghanistan and travels with the mujahideen.
1980 "I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack'... I've tried everything... I know a fair amount about LSD." Interview, Ladies Home Journal.
10 Nov 1980 Refuses to pay cab fare. Cabbie won't let him out. Rather screams that he's being kidnapped. CBS pays cabbie Eugene Phillips $12.55 due, and police inexplicably charge him with disorderly conduct.
1981 Anchor, CBS Evening News.
2 Sep 1985 For reasons unknown, begins signing off his broadcasts with the single word, Courage.
Oct 1986 Mugged on Park Avenue, New York City, by a man shouting What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
11 Sep 1987 After a tennis match seemed to be running long, walks off the set of CBS Evening News at the start of broadcasting, leaving dead air for six minutes. Walter Cronkite: "I would have fired him. There's no excuse for it."
29 Aug 1990 Interviews Saddam Hussein after the invasion of Kuwait.
1994 R.E.M. song, What's the Frequency, Kenneth.
13 Aug 1996 "Rummy [ Donald Rumsfeld ] used to get even with guys in the White House by leaking stuff to [Dan] Rather that didn't have any basis in fact." Tom Brokaw, taped from a satellite transmission that he did not know was being broadcast.
1997 William Tager arrested for killing an NBC Today Show stagehand. Rather identifies this person as the "Kenneth" mugger. Tager needed to know the frequency of the signals which were being beamed into his head (a seemingly reasonable request.)
16 May 2002 "It is an obscene comparison--you know, I am not sure I like it--but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions, and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often. And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism." Dan Rather on BBC Newsnight.
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Dan you will be missed....

I can only imagine what he's going to be doing without someone to answer to😕

Also odd that he announces this the day before the report about the National Guard papers will come out.


 
Originally posted by: bozack
good riddens
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You remind me of the cracker in the movie, I think it must have been Porky's, who kept calling the Jewish guy a kite until finally the Jewish guy yelled how he was too stupid to even be a bigot.
 
Originally posted by: daveshel
You remind me of the cracker in the movie, I think it must have been Porky's, who kept calling the Jewish guy a kite until finally the Jewish guy yelled how he was too stupid to even be a bigot.
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and your posts remind me of Billy Madison, the scene where they say something to the effect of "we are all now that much stupider having heard this...blah blah"...dave you are really one to be calling someone "stupid", talk about pot kettle.
 
Originally posted by: bozack
Originally posted by: daveshel
You remind me of the cracker in the movie, I think it must have been Porky's, who kept calling the Jewish guy a kite until finally the Jewish guy yelled how he was too stupid to even be a bigot.
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and your posts remind me of Billy Madison, the scene where they say something to the effect of "we are all now that much stupider having heard this...blah blah"...dave you are really one to be calling someone "stupid", talk about pot kettle.
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Gotta love the smugness of those in the 50.9% of the Religious Radical Right, they feel the need to continue to insult and talk down to the other 49%. Wonder why they feel so insecure??? 😕
 
Back on topic.

Dan had the longest run of any U.S. anchorman. No one can take that away from here.

He may be guilty of attempting to fabricate the News himself towards the end of his career but it was still quite a career. I'm sure those with the harshest words in here are the most jealous.
 
In case everyone seems to have missed it....Rather is only leaving CBS News!

Now, the funny part of that is, he is leaving because of the "forged" documents.(I don't care if they are or are not, but I haven't seen direct proof either way yet)

Why is that funny? Becuase he reported the damn things on 60 Minutes NOT CBS news and he is keeping the 60 minutes job!
 
Hunh? Rather's been talking of retiring as anchor of CBS News for some time. He and Brokaw and, I believe, Jennings, too, are all set for retirement within the next year.
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Gotta love the smugness of those in the 50.9% of the Religious Radical Right, they feel the need to continue to insult and talk down to the other 49%. Wonder why they feel so insecure??? 😕
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Dave I surely hope this was not directed at me....conservative yes but to group me in the bucket of the "radical religious" is a bit of a stretch as I am anything but religious...
 
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