When last we noted CBS News, it was trying to topple the Bush administration in the 2004 campaign, courtesy of Dan Rather’s ham-handed document fraud. If you want to indulge a fiction, you can attribute the consequent firings to corporate embarrassment over Rather’s arrant partisanship. I’m sticking with corporate outrage over the scheme’s inept execution, “progressive” causes — such as cashiering a Republican administration — being de rigueur among the dying.Read it all.
Yet, for some reason, President Bush decided it would be in his interest to make 60 Minutes, CBS’s miso-Bush news magazine, the first media filter for his personal defense of the new Iraq strategy announced last week.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Bush and CBS
I wondered why the President would waste his time appearing on 60 Minutes this past Sunday. Andrew McCarthy at NRO examines what went on.
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