posted June 05, 2006 12:18 PM            

Morley Safer was no friend of Dan Rather when the two worked together on CBS’ "60 Minutes,” according to a new unauthorized bio of Rather.

In the book "Lone Star” – due out in September – author Alan Weisman writes that Safer "has not been a friend of Rather’s for years, since their days in Vietnam.”

The animosity dates back to when Rather replaced Safer soon after Safer’s report about a platoon of Marines burning a Vietnamese village.

"When Rather replaced me . . . he went to a group of Marines and said, ‘If I were you guys, I would have shot him.’ Or words to that effect,” Safer told Weisman. "And that my report should never have gone on their air.”

Asked if Rather had dumped on Safer to curry favor with the Marines, Safer told Weisman: "Who the hell knows why?”
Safer isn’t the only CBS staffer to rip Rather in the biography, according to a report on the book in the New York Post.

Co-workers took Rather to task for his critical report on George Bush’s service with the Air National Guard.

posted June 06, 2006 03:07 AM            

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You are, as usual sadly mistaken if you think I'm trying to convert anyone to anything.

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There are 19 threads started by you on the first page now. 16 started this past week. Eight of those with no response. Are you still without agenda? I'm sure you're just trying to bring us the news, because some people may not visit NewsMax or World Net Daily.

posted June 06, 2006 08:26 PM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

posted June 06, 2006 10:59 PM            

I'm never surprised when leftists don't want to discuss leftist hypocrisy, leftist corruption or anything else tending to show leftists are not the sterling examples of moral rectitude, enlightenment, compassion or intellectual superiority they attempt to project to the world.

Why in the world would I want to convert leftists or attempt to knock them off their chosen but politically disastrous path acoustic?