Oh, Danny boy
: Dan Rather is throwing his boss, CBS News President Andrew Heyward, to the wolves in today’s New York Times:
“This is not verbatim,” Mr. Rather recalled. “But I said: ‘Andrew, if true, it’s breakthrough stuff. But I need to do something unusual. It may even be unique. I have to ask you to oversee, in a hands-on way, the handling of this story, because this is potentially the kind of thing that will cause great controversy.’
“He got it. He immediately agreed.”
Nope, Dan. It came out of your mouth. You’re responsible.
: It’s also troubling that the Rather camp apparently tells The Times that he is opposed to the appointment of Dick Thornburgh to the baby-blue commission investigating him:
Mr. Rather considers Mr. Thornburgh a confounding choice in part because he served two Republican presidents, Mr. Bush’s father, and Richard M. Nixon, with whom Mr. Rather publicly clashed, the colleagues and associates said.
Well, who the hell do you think they should appoint? Ted Kennedy?
