New court documents filed in Rather's ongoing $70 million lawsuit against his former employer reveal a list of figures the network considered appointing to the panel, including right-wing firebrands Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Matt Drudge."Only conservative lawyers were considered for the Panel," Rather's lawyers write. "[T]heir names were vetted by Viacom’s Washington lobbyists (as well as with unnamed 'GOP folks')."Included in the court papers were a list of "others" CBS considered: •William Buckley •Robert Novak •Kate O’Beirne •Nicholas Von Hoffman •Tucker Carlson •Pat Buchanan •George Will •Lou Dobbs •Matt Drudge •Robert Barkley •Robert Kagan •Fred Barnes •William Kristol •John Podhoretz •David Brooks •William Safire •Bernard Goldberg •Ann Coulter •Andrew Sullivan •Christopher Hitchens •PJ O’Rourke •Christopher Caldwell •Elliot Abrams •Charles Krauthammer •William Bennett •Rush LimbaughAlso included on the list was Boccardi; David Gergen, a former adviser to Presidents Reagan and Clinton; Gene Roberts, the former managing editor of the New York Times; and Dick Wald, the former NBC News president.
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