Rather To Comment on Memo-Gate

CBS announced that they will broadcast, on March 9 at 8 pm, a tribute to Dan Rather after his last newscast. The retrospective will cover all aspects of his career, including his last days and the whole 60 Minutes story on President Bush's National Guard record.

Not only that, Rather will offer commentary during the special program about his career and more notably, that particular news story.

Of course, this will definitely draw in the viewers. I want to see what Rather has to say about being allowed to step down from his post, CEO of CBS Television Leslie Moonves not being implicated (even though he defended the story) and the firing of other who worked on the production. Will he say something about his poor judgement in pressing on with the story in spite of the questionable source of information or say once again that while the evidence was false, the heart of the story wasn't.

Rather won't go quietly though. According to the Associated Press,

Starting February 28, the "CBS Evening News" will air an eight-part series in which Rather looks back at the most significant stories he's covered.

Soldier on Dan.