Rather should step down gracefully.

He's outed himself. Heyward, too. The statement was a pathetic non-admission of guilt. Staggering how bad you have to be to get fired at CBS. As it stands, you can make the most blantant and partisan error of judgement and still be CBS News anchor or even run the entire Newsroom.

The main point stands that only Rather would have fallen for it. Only Rather, not Brokaw, not even Anti-American Jennings would have run that story after have experts and family discredit it. Only Rather - because he's that blind to his own partisanship.