Dan Rather, the cranky former CBS Evening News anchor who's toiling away at HDNet, continues to stay newsworthy thanks to his ongoing $70 million lawsuit against CBS, which the court system refuses to shut down. In the latest round of testimony, Rather's lawyer Marty Gould claims CBS — which ousted him following Memogate — cost his client millions of dollars in compensation because of, drum roll please, fraud!
Dan Rather could have made millions of dollars more per year if CBS had not defrauded him before firing him, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Martin Gold discussed the finances after a hearing on Rather's ongoing $70 million breach-of-contract lawsuit. Rather says he was removed from the evening news anchor chair and given little to do after a disputed September 2004 60 Minutes II story about President Bush's military service.
CBS' lawyers say Rather was paid everything he was owed and the network used his talents as the contract required.
Gold said the network was supposed to use Rather on other news shows or pay him and let him go.
Gold said CBS held on to the 77-year-old newsman and denied him a chance to take a $4 million-a-year job at another network. The lawyer said Rather now earns about $1.5 million at the high-definition TV network HDNet. [AP]
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I'm going to tell you something. For what it's worth, I've turned on Dan Rather's show on HDNet and that guy still has it. He's a great reporter, he's got a great voice, his investigations are thorough and each time I've watched him, his stories remind me of all the great stories I use to watch on 60 Minutes. I think that they made a mistake getting rid of Rather. If they didn't want him anchoring network news any longer, they should have kept him on an Investigative Show.
They fired him because he helped commit fraud and slander against the President of the United States. That's rather (ha! GET IT?!?) serious. Look, if you're going to have irrational hatred against Pres. Bush at least be a damn man and be pissed at something truthful, not something that was a complete lie.
As far as him having it…ehh, whatever. He's only cool when he says insane shit at 2am Election night like something about it being like a Texas tornado. A wildin' out Rather is great.