I don’t think I knew this until I read Mike Walker’s Rather Dumb:

Then there was Dan’s nasty, off-the-wall report on the release of former ABC newsman Charles Glass, who’d escaped terrorists holding him hostage in Lebanon. Time reported that Rather “sounded a jarring note of skepticism, referring to Glass as ‘a young man who says he was a hostage.’” ABC’s courtly Nightline anchorman Ted Koppel reacted in uncharacteristic fury to Rather’s sneaky innuendo that the kidnapping of their reporter might have been a hoax and delivered the stinging retort that the CBS newsman’s vicious, unsupported implication was “beneath contempt.”

Here’s my interview with Walker, by the way, who’s a gossip columnist for the Enquirer(!).

Re: Subject line: It’s a Ratherism.