The general manager of Charlotte’s WBTV, one of the South’s oldest and largest CBS affiliates, is calling for the network to suspend Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and Andrew Heyward: WBTV general manager wants Rather suspended. (Hat tip: Rathergate.com.)

In an e-mail to network executives, Channel 3’s Mary MacMillan said she believed the anchor of the “CBS Evening News” should be taken off the air until an investigation is resolved into the documents used in a report about President Bush’s military service.

She also said CBS should suspend Andrew Heyward, president of the news division, and Mary Mapes, the producer of the “60 Minutes” segment, until the inquiry is finished.

“I am on record with CBS that I strongly believe that Mr. Rather, Miss Mapes and Mr. Heyward and anyone else whose fingerprints are on that mess should have been suspended pending the conclusions and recommendations of the independent review panel,” said MacMillan, WBTV’s vice president and general manager.