Use bogus documents to try to impeach the President’s National Guard record during a presidential compaign?<\/p>\n
Oh, OK.\u00a0 Not good.<\/p>\n
But insult Katie Couric?<\/p>\n
Now <\/em>Dan Rather’s gone too far!<\/p>\n Commenting about CBS Evening News’ <\/em>freefall since Couric occupied Rather’s old seat, Gunga Dan said:<\/p>\n “the mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ show ethos to the ‘Evening News,’ and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now he’s gone too far!<\/p>\n [CBS top suit Les] Moonves, asked about the remarks at an appearance in New York sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, called the remarks “sexist” and said he was surprised at the amount of negative coverage Couric was receiving. Couric, the first solo female news anchor, has been struggling in the ratings.<\/p>\n “She’s been on the air for nine months,” Moonves said. “Let’s give her a break.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mr. Rather:\u00a0 I have a friend who has documents proving that Katie Couric never actually was on <\/em>the Today <\/em>Show!\u00a0<\/p>\n And they’re authentic!<\/p>\n Honest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Use bogus documents to try to impeach the President’s National Guard record during a presidential compaign? Oh, OK.\u00a0 Not good. But insult Katie Couric? Now Dan Rather’s gone too far! Commenting about CBS Evening News’ freefall since Couric occupied Rather’s old seat, Gunga Dan said: “the mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}