"CBS Evening News executive producer Rick Kaplan is mad as hell at Dan Rather," writes recent birthday boy Roger Friedman, who claims not to read us while mimicking our ledes.

If you're just joining us, here's the story so far: On Monday, Dan Rather bashed Katie Couric, who has his old job. Yesterday, Les Moonves responded with claims of sexism. Then Dan Rather admitted he may have gone too far, but deflects any notion that he might be anti-vagina.

Now Katie's producer, Rick Kaplan, is joining the fray.

Reports Friedman:

"This is someone who should go through his life quietly," Kaplan told me. [...]

"We had to build back from when Dan left," Kaplan said. "What's really upsetting is that the same people are still here doing the news as when Dan left; those are the people he's criticizing. A lot of people at CBS are disappointed that he said that."

Kaplan cited female reporters Lara Logan and Kimberly Dozier — the latter having been injured in Iraq — for falling under Rather's sexist "tarted up" depiction. Recently, Kaplan added the excellent Nancy Cordes from ABC to his stable of reporters.

It's worth noting: MSNBC is sorta-kinda rebuilding itself from when Rick left. But … YEAH, what he said!