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CBS's independent panel wish list: Drudge, Coulter, Limbaugh
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Dan Rather's $70 million suit against CBS for wrongful termination following the Memogate scandal continues, and The Observer's Felix Gillette has been digging through stacks of emails, memos and transcripts that CBS turned over in the discovery process. ...

CBS considered Rush, Coulter for Rather fiasco oversight
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS continues apace, and the New York Observer notes that the discovery process has already uncovered some gems.  After the Killian memos turned out to be forgeries, CBS appointed Richard Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi to oversee their internal investigation.  They had a few others in mind, too, and their list turns out to be a who’s who among the Right in 2004: Rather accuses CBS of deliberately hiring Thornburgh, a Republican who served as Attorney General under George H. W. Bush, as a means of destroying Rather’s reputation.  CBS countered in ...

CBS Vs. Rather: The Fix Was In
Firedoglake — ... , consider this list of names that CBS considered for their two-person post-scandal inquiry panel (ultimately chaired by Bush I AG Dick Thornburgh): ...

Missing from Election Night coverage: Dan Rather and his search for the truth
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... about any of the facts in the case, Moonves saw this as a way to get Rather out of CBS. As proof, on September 22, CBS announced an "independent panel." The panel would consist of two different people, one seemingly objective (Louis Boccardi, former head of The Associated Press) and one biased against Rather, former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh under George H.W. Bush. At the time, many objected to the insincere form the panel took. Apparently, it could have been far worse. The New York Observer reported this week that the CBS list included a few conservative media ...

CBS considered Drudge, Coulter, Limbaugh as part of ‘independent’ panel to review Rather in 2004.
Think Progress — ... on President Bush’s military service. On Sept. 22, 2004, CBS announced that it was forming an “independent review panel” to investigate the controversy, composed of former U.S. attorney general Dick Thornburgh and former AP head Louis Boccardi. Newly public documents show that prior to choosing the two men, CBS had tossed around other possible panel candidates such as right-wing pundits such as Matt Drudge, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Bill Kristol. Below is CBS’s full list of these “others”: ...

CBS' 'independent' Rather panel would have looked more like the Wingnut Inquisition
Crooks and Liars — ... Felix Gillette at the New York Observer got a look at some of the documents and found a list of names that CBS executives had compiled for its "independent panel" to examine the claims against Rather. ...

It looks like Dan Rather got off easy
Power Line — ... Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS is, oddly enough, still in court, and CBS's document production has produced some interesting tidbits. According to this report, documents show that, with the idea of pre-empting allegations of a cover-up, CBS thought about putting its "harshest conservative critics" on the panel that would investigate Rather's bogus story about President Bush's national guard service. Among those mentioned were Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and Ann Coulter. ...

Dan Rather: “CBS ganged up with conservatives to pick on me.”
Rathergate.com — George Will, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, Lou Dobbs, and Tucker Carlson were all considered to sit on the Rathergate Panel which was eventually chaired by Dick Thornburgh, the New York Observer ...

Oh Dear Sweet Jesus
Suburban Guerrilla — ... Some interesting information coming out in the documents Dan Rather’s legal team has submitted in his lawsuit against CBS. Apparently the CBS honchos thought Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter were appropriate for an “independent” panel to judge whether CBS was too “liberal.” ...

If An Anchor Gets Railroaded In The Village And No-One Reports On It, Does He Make A Sound?
Firedoglake — ... Hey, remember that list of rabid right-wing lunatics CBS considered for its Dan Rather Memogate investigation?  The one that I wrote about ...

No rendirse, muchacho: Dan Rather WILL NOT Settle CBS Suit
Corrente — I know, I know, I know. Passe, declasse, all that stuff. Old hat, old news, not what we want to discuss here today. But, dammit, we still have a REPORTER fighting the SUITS over the bias and the deference to it that helped w/Cheney wreck the country. Give 'em hell, Daniel. Read more…

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... around the same time it was considering putting the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and Ann Coulter on a panel to investigate the Guard story. ...