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#8. Dan Rather Collar Up

In the 18 months since Dan Rather left CBS, the newsman has sued his old network for $70 million and described successor Katie Couric's broadcast as "dumbing it down and tarting it up." So we hardly had time to miss him when My Damn Channel's Harry Shearer unearthed this old video of Rather obsessing over how to dress for a rooftop broadcast — Coat on or off? Collar up or down? — making the veteran reporter look both dumb and tarty.

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