Certain peculiarities

Ray Richmond, writing for HollywoodReporter.com seemed like he wanted to write a puff-piece lauding Dan Rather's career. That's not what emerges as Richmond details "certain peculiarities to exit Rather's lips" during an interview last year.

Peculiarities such as?

Describing his love of CBS and CBS News, Rather observed in the interview last year: "In my mind and the minds of the people I work with, this is a magical, mystical kingdom -- our version of Camelot. And we feel we are working at a kind of roundtable of King Arthur proportions. Now, it may be that this kingdom exists only in our minds. But that makes it no less real for those of us who live it every day."

And then there was this: "Ed Murrow's ghost is here. I've seen him and talked to him on the third floor of this building many times late at night. And I can tell you that he's watching over us."

Richmond concedes that Rather may have spent "too much time of late yakking with the ghost of Murrow and too little confirming the veracity of his sources ..."

Dr. Venkman concludes, "I'd say that's a big 'yes'."