So this isn't CBS' first waltz with a wingnut.

[grasswire]

CBS Lara Logan shamed the premier news program by dancing with wingnut Mary Matalin to bring the controversial book author (and liar) to 60 Minutes.

Less than a month ago, CBS brought an author to its 60 Minutes audiences who works for Breitbart, and pimped his book.

Members of Congress and their staffs are on red alert tonight for a CBS 60 Minutes investigation by veteran CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer exposing how lawmakers convert campaign donations into lavish lifestyle upgrades for themselves and their family members.

Sources say top CBS executives thought the report was so explosive that they made it the show’s lead story and delayed airing it for another week in order to capture tonight’s much larger NFL-viewing audience. The report features selected revelations from Schweizer’s forthcoming book, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets.

“I’m under a publisher embargo right now and can’t say much,” Schweizer told Breitbart News. “But suffice it to say, President Obama and some members of Washington’s Permanent Political Class are not going to like what we uncovered and the kinds of personal enrichment and self-dealing exposed in Extortion.”

To prevent early leaks of the book’s contents, publisher Houghton Mifflin made bookstore managers sign legal affidavits saying they would not shelve Extortion until the book’s official Tuesday, October 22 launch date. The book, which contains a staggering 35 pages of source materials totaling over 600 endnotes, is chock-full of revelations and never-before-released documents on top Washington figures, says Houghton Mifflin.

That blurb is from breitbart.com, via freerepublic.

The book is heavily promoted by Sarah Palin.

Incidentally, one of Schweizer's previous books is:

Makers and Takers is a book by Peter Schweizer. It was published by Doubleday in June 2008. The book's thesis is summarized in its subtitle: Why conservatives work harder, feel happier, have closer families, take fewer drugs, give more generously, value honesty more, are less materialistic and envious, whine less … and even hug their children more than liberals. Where Schweizer's book Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy portrayed liberal icons and leaders in America less virtuous than their conservative counterparts, Makers and Takers expands this thesis to the general populace, implying conservatives in general are more virtuous than liberals.

So....why is CBS aligning itself with known propagandists for its "investigative" news program?

Could it be because the head of the news division is from FOX NEWS?

[meanit]

1. The media

is bought and paid for. This type of shit will not stop until there is a law or act that forces fairness and integrity in news reporting.

[ZX86]

11. Media Reform Solution:

Any organization that gathers and disseminates public affair news and/or opinion should be tax exempt as long as they devote 15% of their content to outside review/rebuttal and they have no other business interests outside of public affairs news.

This would not force fairness but would destroy the business model of corporate news.

[arthritisR_US]

2. I thought they were going to do a mea culpa? nt

[grasswire]

3. apparently it was lame

two minutes

[arthritisR_US]

5. That is so fecking lame of them and they fired

DR for the truth. They have lost me now, those pigs!!

[FuzzyRabbit]

4. The head of the CBS news division is indeed a FOX News guy.

From http://news.rice.edu/2011/02/11/rice-alum-david-rhodes-named-president-of-cbs-news/

"Previously Rhodes served as head of U.S. Television for Bloomberg, where he managed the channel’s programming, development, editorial, newsgathering, production and operations at the company’s New York headquarters. Before joining Bloomberg in November 2008, Rhodes spent 12 years at Fox News, where he started as a production assistant when Fox began operations. He worked his way up to vice president of news, with an emphasis on breaking news and political coverage."

[delrem]

6. That was the critical point I got from the OP.

I hadn't thought of that before, how FOX can be a technical training ground for its particular brand of weasel and how those weasels can go on to infiltrate the MSM.

The problem is deeper than that, of course, and the whole of the US MSM is bought and paid for, including the "pundits" at MSNBC. *Very" sorry to say that but too many times I've watched/listened as progressive spokespersons are bought up by MSNBC, hit the ground running with fresh faces and views and interviewees, and who degenerate into conduits for the same old "embedded" news reportage.

Money, fame, 24/7 pressure....

[MrMickeysMom]

7. Fucking fascists...

[blkmusclmachine]

8. 60 Minutes is, to be charitable about it, untrustworthy.

[RobertEarl]

9. Oh c'mon

They are just being fair and balanced against the 'Liberal Media'.

Y'know, that 'Liebearl' media that crucified Bush and Reagan.

And how they let Bill Clinton run away scot free over the blue dress. Priorities matter, people.

Honestly, some people are just now getting this? TURN OFF the tv.

[Blue Owl]

10. The Whiskey Teabag Foxtrot Hour