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"I don't think the coverage overall deserves too much criticism," said longtime CBS anchor and current AXS-TV host Dan Rather. "But if there is any criticism _ and I don't exempt myself at all from this _ is that there is not enough analysis and way too much commentary."
After that, he zeroes in on some of his colleagues: "[A]fter pretending to be friends for all those years, they stealthily snuck around giving anonymous newspaper quotes and otherwise scheming to put the dirk in deep when I was down and hurting," he writes.
