Did Saddam Hussein Bug Dan Rather Before the Iraq War?

By GottaLaff

Saddam Hussein really bugged us for a long time, didn't he? What a pain he was. He was an especially irritating source of buggage for Dan Rather... but not the kind you might think:

It was probably the most important interview before the Iraq war: Dan Rather vs. Saddam Hussein. But we learn in the new book Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq by Charles Duelfer, longtime United Nations and CIA weapons inspector, that Saddam likely got a peek at Rather's questions. [...]

Rather told reporters that his preinvasion quiz was so important that he practiced his questions before a mirror in his Rasheed Hotel room. But Duelfer notes that Saddam had the city so heavily wired for surveillance that his posse probably heard every question. "It is simply surprising," Duelfer tells Whispers, "that someone as worldly as Dan Rather would not assume his room was bugged in one of the most security-conscious regimes on the planet."

Didn't Rather learn anything from all those James Bond movies?

Dan Rather At 10pm On MSNBC? Olbermann Floats The Idea

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Well, bless my buttons, I missed this. Not quite sure how I feel about it, I think I'd prefer someone "fresher".The video is Rachel's interview with Rather.

A tipster noted the toss last night between Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, in which Olbermann asked: "Dan Rather tonight? Want to ask him if he's doing anything weeknights at 10?" Maddow replied, "I will, thank you for suggesting that, Keith." She didn't...

Dan Rather's $70m lawsuit likely to deal Bush legacy a new blow

By GottaLaff

I didn't realize Bush's legacy could suffer any more than it already has.

Just kidding. Yes I did:

As George W Bush prepares to leave the White House, at least one unpleasant episode from his unpopular presidency is threatening to follow him into retirement.

A $70m lawsuit filed by Dan Rather, the veteran former newsreader for CBS Evening News, against his old network is reopening the debate over alleged favourable treatment that Bush received when he served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. Bush had hoped that this controversy had been dealt with once and for all during the 2004 election.

As Dan once said, "Feeling good about your chances... or are your fingernails beginning to sweat?"