I did a search and didn't see anything here at Kos on this topic. After reading on Mediamatters about the hit job that 60 minutes is planning to do on Bill Clinton this Sunday, I felt that this was something that should not go by without a response from the left Blogosphere.
Louis Freeh is going to be peddling his new book - "My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror (St. Martin's Press)". And, it appears that 60 minutes is only interested in getting one side of the story.
I was planning to quote the Washington Post Article written by Howard Kurtz, but I have been unable to connect to the WP website for over an hour now. You can find the links on the Media Matters website yorself anyhow if you're interested. Here's part of it:
according to an October 7 New York Sun article (subscription required), CBS "refused to tape interviews with former Clinton administration officials who disagree with the former FBI director's allegations, according to people familiar with the situation." Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz reported that "[t]he Clinton camp says '60 Minutes' would not accept any surrogate to rebut Freeh on camera once the former president declined to be interviewed."
Media Matters points out that CBS handled things differently when Richard Clarke's book which was critical of Bush hit the shelves.
60 Minutes' refusal to accept a surrogate in place of Clinton is inconsistent with the way the show handled a similar story about a book critical of President Bush. On March 21, 2004, 60 Minutes ran a segment about former National Security Council counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke's then-upcoming book, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (Free Press, March 2004). The segment included not only an exclusive interview with Clarke but also an interview with Bush administration National Security Council official Stephen Hadley, who was given time to defend Bush from Clarke's criticism.
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