Posted by
Jason on Thursday, September 20, 2007 3:10:38 PM
It's being reported that Dan Rather, the 75-year-old former CBS anchor who was disgraced after trying to sway the 2004 election by running a false story about President George W. Bush's service in the National Guard, is suing his former employer. That's right... He's complaining that after he was busted for running the bogus story (which he still claims is true... how's that for objective journalism?), the network did not give him ample time on the air. He also claims that the internal CBS investigation was "biased," and therefore amounts to fraud which "seriously damaged his reputation."
While it's nice to hear Rather finally admit that CBS is biased, they're not the ones who "damaged his reputation." When he ran a bogus, "unsubstantiated" story about the President of the United States just weeks before the vote to re-elect him, and still stands by the story years after it's been debunked, the damaged reputation is his own doing.
He's seeking $70 million anyway...