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Remember how Dan Rather was riding CBS and Katie Couric all these months like Lou Dobbs' Harvard-educated daughter at an equestrian competition, almost as though he had a giant "This is what happens when you're forced to resign in disgrace" stick up his ass?
Well, it turns out there was a method to his madness after all, or at least a reason for all that residual anger. It seems that as a result of Rather's network mandated, reputation-ruining exit fifteen months back, he's been suffering. So much so, in fact, that he's gone ahead and accused the network of making him the scapegoat for the "biased" and incomplete investigation of the infamous Guard broadcast.
Fortunately, however, Rather's found the perfect way to make everything right again: suing all the top CBS execs and asking for $70 million in damages.
