Everyone’s been speaking up about my good friend Dan Rather and his 70 million dollar lawsuit against CBS (including my ex dear friend Katie Couric on this very blogosphere). But I feel I must throw in my two cents, or in my case, my two million bucks.

We broadcasting megastars are like a family. In fact, I’ve always looked up to Dan Rather as a father figure (and Katie Couric as an evil stepsister). Like every family, there are heroes, hellions, whores, and scum of the earth. For fifty years, Dan Rather was a hero. Now I feel he has become money-grubbing scum, giving us all a terribly bad name.

Unlike yours truly, Dan Rather’s halcyon days are behind him. The only job he managed to land after being canned from CBS was on the obscure cable channel HDNet, whatever the hell that is. From my point of “view,” he might as well have become kitchen help at Church’s Fried Chicken.

He wants to be back in the limelight. Instead, he’s in the slimelight.