VIA: The Washington Monthly

CBS has released a statement saying it has now spiked the story entirely because it would be "inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election":

The CBS statement followed a report in the online edition of Newsweek that described the frustration of CBS News reporters and producers who said the network had concluded that it could not legitimately criticize the president because of the questions about the National Guard report.

According to the Newsweek report, the "60 Minutes" segment was to have detailed how the administration relied on false documents when it said Iraq had tried to buy a lightly processed form of uranium, known as yellowcake, from Niger. The administration later acknowledged that the information was incorrect and that the documents were most likely fake.

The Newsweek article said the segment was to have included the first on-camera interview with Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who was given the fake documents and who provided them to a United States Embassy for verification. The documents were sent to Washington, where some officials embraced them as firm evidence that Iraq was aggressively trying to make

This marks the point in the history of press freedom in America where there is no longer a right and left media. There now are merely Propagandists and Stenographers. (Do you think I started writing this blog for my health? Someone has too keep the ideals of liberalism alive, which will become increasingly difficult)