One of the most famous wildfeeds was a 1996 clip that caught NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw bad-mouthing rival anchor Dan Rather during a rehearsal. Brokaw accused Rather of long ago airing stories that were in fact fabricated by an official in the Nixon White House. The official was none other than Donald Rumsfeld, now Defense Secretary in the Bush administration. Brokaw said that during the Nixon administration, "Rummy used to get even with guys in the White House by leaking stuff to Rather that didn't have any basis in fact." He also said that Rather was "factually wrong a lot of the time because he was Rummy's vessel." Ouch. Of course, this doesn't mean that Brokaw's claim is true — he admitted making the comments but tried, unconvincingly, to downplay them — but it serves to illustrate why some people become fanatical satellite surfers who spend much of their free time looking for such tidbits.