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CBS= Cowards Bootlickers Subservients
from www.wsws.org
In a development that highlights the cowardice and subservience of the US media--and suggests there is far more to the so-called "memogate" affair at CBS News than has so far been made public--the network confirmed September 27 that it had canceled a planned "60 Minutes" broadcast exposing the use of forged documents by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraqi war.
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CBS News President Andrew Heyward eventually declared that broadcasting the "60 Minutes" program on Iraq's non-existent WMD would be "inappropriate" so close to the election, since it would give the appearance that the network was seeking to influence the vote. This rationale, of course, ignores the fact that NOT broadcasting the program ALSO influences the vote, and amounts to a whitewash of the Bush administrations lies.
Newsweek, citing CBS sources, said the network feared it would become a "laughingstock" if it broadcast a program criticizing the Bush White House for the use of forged documents so soon after CBS itself fell victim to forged documents.
This account suggests another explanation for the whole affair: it raises more forcefully the likelihood that the bogus memos on Bush's National Guard service were supplied to CBS by dirty tricks operatives of the Republican Party, for the purpose of embarrassing the network and blowing up it's planned exposure of the WMD fabrications.
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