CBS' '60 Minutes' Again Shills for a Clinton

 

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Media Bias: CBS' "60 Minutes" just out-lapdogged its 1992 Bill and Hillary Clinton Gennifer Flowers scandal interview. The "news magazine" on Sunday became a "Hillary in 2016" campaign brochure.

What better friend have the Clintons ever had than Steve Kroft? Slick Willie was the lackluster governor of the Deep South's least populous state, booed off the podium of the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, when Arkansas state employee Gennifer Flowers presented audiotape evidence of a 12-year affair during his 1992 run for his party's presidential nod, not long after Clinton won less than 3% in the Iowa caucuses.

He and business partner/wife Hillary Rodham reached for the life preserver of an Oprah-style CBS "60 Minutes" joint empathy session, and as the CBS website proudly admits, the Clintons' lovey-dovey routine "ended up on the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country, and it is continually cited as one of the defining moments of that presidential election."

Bill finished second in the New Hampshire primary, more than 8 points behind former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, but the media let him declare himself "The Comeback Kid," as if cancer survivor Tsongas were a non-entity. Clinton would later lose Connecticut and Colorado to California Gov. Jerry Brown.

Without that "60 Minutes" lovefest it's a good bet there wouldn't have been a President Bill Clinton.

Last Sunday, Kroft came to a Clinton's rescue again. Under Hillary's watch as secretary of state, a U.S. ambassador was killed for the first time since Jimmy Carter's hapless presidency. Christopher Stevens was murdered in a well-orchestrated al-Qaida attack that a campaigning Obama claimed was just a protest against an anti-Muslim California filmmaker gone awry.

Kroft's questions? "Why were you so insistent about wanting her to be secretary of state? ... How would you characterize your relationship right now? ... What about the spouses? Is that an impertinent question?" and "What do you think the biggest success has been, foreign policy success?"

On the Benghazi cover-up? "You had a very long day" testifying to Congress, and, "Also, how is your health?"

Kroft then let Obama get away with claiming that in Egypt, without "the leadership we showed you might have seen a different outcome there."

Different from anti-American Islamists gaining power over what had been, under Egyptian President Mubarak, our most important Arab ally? (No, Kroft never asked that obvious follow-up.)

Earlier Sunday, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., appeared on "ABC's This Week With Ex-Clinton Senior Adviser George Stephanopoulos."

The FBI had just revealed that Menendez is under investigation on suspicion of patronizing underage Dominican prostitutes, but as NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard notes, " He was not asked one question about the investigation or the allegations."

America's elitist media establishment is no longer just an ideologically lopsided disgrace; like some banana republic's prostituting state press agency, it is subjugating our free system of government by an informed people.