Rather, Wallace In CBS Pissing Match?

Mike Wallace‘s comments that Dan Rather should have resigned resulted in a pissing match between the two journos, Radar says.

“The argument erupted in a men’s room at CBS headquarters in New York, we hear, after Wallace sidled up to his whizzing 60 Minutes colleague of three decades and told him he had just confided to Katie Couric in a Today Show interview…that he thought Rather should have resigned when his underlings were canned for basing the National Guard story on what turned out to be phony documents.

‘They were both standing at the urinals when Wallace casually mentioned what he had told Katie,’ says the source. ‘There proceeded a twenty-minute shouting match in the bathroom’ between Rather and the 87-year-old journalist.

Reached for comment, Wallace confirmed that a ‘discussion’ had taken place — ‘I don’t remember whether it was in a men’s room,’ he said — but called the notion that tempers flared ‘bullshit.”

‘I said to Dan — and I told him that I said this to Katie — ‘Did it never occur to you after the people who worked with you were fired that you might have resigned in sympathy with them?” Wallace said. ‘And he replied, ‘Yes, it did occur to me.’ And we had a very pleasant, straightforward conversation about it.'” More…