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Dan Rather's Numbered Days: In 3, 2, 1 . . .

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Meanwhile, Rather's onetime CBS newscast co-anchor, Connie Chung, was implementing an equally dramatic exit strategy over at MSNBC.

In what appeared to be the longest, most painful goodbye in television news history but which, according to YouTube.com (on which the moment was captured), lasted a mere 2 minutes 48 seconds, Chung closed out with a song the final telecast of the short-lived "Weekends With Maury & Connie," the talk show she hosted with her husband, Maury Povich.

Dressed in a white, form-fitting, strapless evening gown, opera gloves and a smile, Chung belted out, in some new, floating key, the Bob Hope trademark tune "Thanks for the Memory," reworked as a love song to Maury.

Thanks for the memories,

This half a year flew by

With Maury, what a guy!

Instead of asking "Who's the daddy?"

He could talk Dubai.

How stunned were we all.

Chung sang, while first standing, then kneeling, then lying on a baby grand piano in a darkened studio, surrounded by glowing candles.

Thanks for the memories,

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