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.

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.

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.

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