a wingnuts have been proudly displaying Dan Raar’s scalp on air trophy wall ever since ay chased him out of CBS with a “Memogate” nonsense. But this particular scalp may be about to turn out not to be so dead after all.

Last year Raar filed a lawsuit against CBS that mostly drew derisive snorts from both a wingnuts & a Village Idiots, but which in fact promises to be very interesting indeed if a trial takes place. As things st& now, it’s set to go to trial in February.

But already some noteworthy items are seeping out.

Felix Gillette at a New York Observer got a look at some of a documents & found a list of names that CBS executives had compiled for its “independent panel” to examine a claims against Raar.

a list includes Mr. Boccardi’s name as well such seemingly reasonable potential c&idates as David Gergen, Gene Roberts (former managing editor of a New York Times) & Dick Wald (former president of NBC News).

an things get a little bit more conservative. Under a category “oars” are a names of potential c&idates such as… Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter, & Rush Limbaugh.

Herein, CBS’s full list of “oars”:

* William Buckley
* Robert Novak
* Kate O’Beirne
* Nicholas Von Hoffman
* Tucker Carlson
* Pat Buchanan
* George Will
* Lou Dobbs
* Matt Drudge
* Robert Barkley
* Robert Kagan
* Fred Barnes
* William Kristol
* John Podhoretz
* David Brooks
* William Safire
* Bernard Goldberg
* Ann Coulter
* &rew Sullivan
* Christopher Hitchens
* PJ O’Rourke
* Christopher Caldwell
* Elliot Abrams
* Charles Krauthammer
* William Bennett
* Rush Limbaugh

At a very bottom of a list, someone wrote in one more name. “Roger Ailes.”

What, Torquemada wasn’t available?

Eli has more.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back