Rather: 'I Continue to Stay Focused on the Big Picture and Look Forward to Getting to the Truth'

He also wants to know who ordered the sausage parm sandwich and why those men in white coats keep showing up.

Really, isn't there anyone out there, some family or friends, that can do an intervention here?

This pathetic sap, who's lucky he wasn't prosecuted in the first place, still clings to the fantasy that he had the goods on George W. Bush and he's being wrongly persecuted.

He wonders why no news outlet, outside of some obscure cable channel, wants anything to do with him.

Will the day ever arrive when in a solemn moment of reflection he wonders silently, "You know, I might have f--ked that story up"?

I doubt it.

Dan Rather says CBS's skulduggery has cost him jobs everywhere from CNN to A&E.

In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the former CBS Evening News anchor says his reliance on the network's false promises that it would defend him after making him a scapegoat for a controversial news report cost him several high-profile jobs - and some lower-profile ones as well.

While he was once a hot property coveted by CNN to be its "face," the fallout from his report on President Bush's Air National Guard service resulted in him being turned away from even part-time jobs at CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, HBO, the History Channel, A&E, Discovery and National Geographic channels, the filing says.

"None of these networks were interested in hiring Mr. Rather, each of them ultimately indicating" to his agent "that he 'had too much baggage,' 'was too hot to handle,' 'there was too much controversy,' or words to that effect," the papers say.

Words to that effect.

Words like are you f--king kidding me!?

Good grief. This boob can't get a National Geographic gig and he still doesn't see the writing on the wall?

Now we go from delusional to outright comical.

Rather makes the claims in an amended version of his $70 million lawsuit against his former bosses, which charges that, in order to placate the White House, they damaged his reputation by hanging him out to dry and refusing to let him defend himself.

Rather, 76, said the filing spells out the damage CBS did to his career.

"I continue to stay focused on the big picture and look forward to getting to the truth," he said in a statement. "We need to ensure that politics and profits don't come before the public trust in America's newsrooms."

Uh, Dan, it's because America's newsrooms are political that you no longer have a reputation.

Obviously, the irony escapes him.

Of course, he then veers off into conspiracy land.

"Since the fall of 2004, CBS has continuously acted to Mr. Rather's detriment by directing him to publicly apologize, and thus accept the blame, for CBS's mishandling of the broadcast, despite his blameless conduct," the suit says.

The suit states network honchos decided to ax him in order "to pacify the White House," and noted that he was told he was losing his anchor job the day after Bush was elected to a second term.

In case anyone was wondering, Rather's co-conspirator, Mary Mapes, also clings to her delusions at one of America's renowned bastions of responsible journalism.

Update: Lawhawk also has some thoughts on Rather.