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People I know
personally, including my own dad, have recounted how Sixty-Minutes took
lengthy interviews (depositions), then edited and manipulated them, out
of context, to support their thesis du Jour.
With the single exception of Hillary's cattle futures fraud (never
re-aired), until Bill was impeached, not a single segment was
devoted
to a Clinton scandal. Mike Wallace's handling of Vince Foster
was prolly the last time I watched the show out of habit. In the
15 years since, I may have watched a dozen times, which is why I was
surprised by this factoid.
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Barack Obama was a major beneficiary of 60 Minutes admiration.
CBS has devoted hours of air time to the promotion of Barack Obama –
five interviews before the election, and six after it, all reported by
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Media Research Center's Syrupy
Minutes How CBS's 60 Minutes Works Overtime for the Obama Left
is a comprehensive study of how wretchedly biased and politically
proactive the show is today. I wonder, though, will anyone but
researchers read it all? I didn't. I'm already convinced.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY on the left will read this
"unhappiness." Some leftist clearing house like Media Matters will skim through,
find a few catch phrases, and publish a thousand words denouncing
it. That will become the go-to
citation for lefty bloggers.
Maybe, if we ever get around to "show trials," it can be introduced
before sentencing. Thank God, though, for all that MRC, and it's NewsBuster subsidiary
do for this Republic.
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