The Ticker: Rumsfeld, Moore, Redford…

By Brian 

> Wednesday at a Northcomm event, Donald Rumsfeld responded to a reporter who asked if we should expect his resignation: “You didn’t have to ask,” he laughed. “Really. CNN didn’t call you up and insist, did they? Did they threaten your job or anything like that? Then why’d you have to then?”

> NY Post: “A double-amputee Iraq-war vet is suing Michael Moore for $85 million” because the filmmaker recycled an old NBC Nightly News interview “and used it out of context to make him appear anti-war in Fahrenheit 9/11.” NBC is named in the suit…

> CNN.com is starting to publish “exclusive opinion pieces from well-known newsmakers” including celebrities, activists, and politicians. Robert Redford is the first writer…

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