CBS seeks dismissal in $70M (Dan) Rather case

[sabra]

Source: UPI

NEW YORK, Nov. 16 Attorneys for CBS have asked a New York judge to dismiss a $70 million lawsuit brought against the network by veteran anchorman Dan Rather.

Lawyers responded Thursday to Rather's claim the company used him as a "scapegoat" for a controversial 2004 report about President George Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

The CBS legal team called Rather's claims "far-fetched" and asked the judge overseeing the case to reject them.

"We at CBS are mystified and saddened by the baseless and self-serving allegations and distortions of fact raised in his lawsuit," the company's lawyers maintained in the Manhattan Supreme Court filing.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/143289.html

[AnneD]

1. Wonder if they

gave Dan some KY before they F*ED him over. They sure are fellating him now. :spray:

[onehandle]

2. Bankrupt them, Dan. nt

[saracat]

3. "Mystified' Really? Perhaps they need remedial reading.

[maxsolomon]

4. good luck with that

of course, it will get strung out till Rather is dead, then it will go away.

CBS fucked him over; the documents were planted, by GOP operatives, but the information is accurate, & it would have cost * the election. we'd be out of iraq & reelecting Kerry by now.

it was blantant & obvious corporate collusion with the white house, and there's blood on CBS' hands.

[zbdent]

5. another example of lawyers that Repukes love ...

[Maccagirl]

6. Keep your evidence in a lockbox Dan

Give copies to a trusted friend (Garry Wills perhaps) and when a Repuke-tool judge denies you justice- write the book!.

[Peace Patriot]

7. "Mystified and saddened...". Poor babies! Ever notice how Bushites...

...when caught with their pants down, bring out the Kleenex. Mystified and saddened. Boo-hoo-hoo!

Suddenly they're family men with kids. And their filthy corruption, and hypocritical sex lives, and thefts of $10 billion from California, and treasonous outings of CIA agents, and "misplacement" of a billion dollars in Iraq, and extortion of Indian tribes, and all the rest, are just mistakes, somehow, committed with the best of patriotic intentions, and...boo-hoo-hoo...cry me a river!

Lord, it will be a relief to be rid of this cowardly, self-pitying crew! Even if we don't exactly get our country back. (It'll never be the same, I'm afraid--and we may have a lot more pain to come.) If only we could vote war profiteering corporation news monopolies off the island, as well. But maybe we can--once we restore transparent vote counting*, and send some real representatives of the people to Washington DC. We ARE a sovereign people, after all--even if our government doesn't think so--and corporations operate from our shores with our permission, via corporate charters, that can be pulled.

Think about that! And go, Dan!

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*(If you haven't seen Dan Rather's "The Trouble With Touchscreens," you oughta! www.HD.net.)

[Cha]

8. I can't wait to hear what

Dan Rather's lawyers have to say about all this whining..

I saw a link on there that was kinda interesting about couric..

"People are very unforgiving and very resistant to change," the 50-year-old Couric said. "The biggest mistake we made is we tried new things." Like messing with the Coke recipe?

Especially when the change involves a cheerleader for bushits over an investigative reporter like Dan Rather.

http://www.sodahead.com/poll/7566/?link=Katie&gclid=CMnU8aWM5Y8CFRusGgod72cbDQ

[Joe Bacon]

9. Yep, CBS went from an ass kicker to an ass kisser

Edward R Murrow must be spinning in his grave.