CBS News is officially dead. The network is postponing its bombshell expose on Chimp's Iraq lies --- until after the election. Yes, this is the report that was bumped so the TANG story could run. And why won't it run now:
"We now believe it would be inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election," the spokeswoman, Kelli Edwards, said in a statement.
Got that? It's now inapropriate to report the facts about how the President lied the country into war.
'60 Minutes' Delays Report Questioning Reasons for Iraq War
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: September 25, 2004
CBS News said yesterday that it had postponed a "60 Minutes" segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq.
The announcement, in a statement by a spokeswoman, was issued four days after the network acknowledged that it could not prove the authenticity of documents it used to raise new questions about President Bush's Vietnam-era military service.
The Iraq segment had been ready for broadcast on Sept. 8, CBS said, but was bumped at the last minute for the segment on Mr. Bush's National Guard service. The Guard segment was considered a highly competitive report, one that other journalists were pursuing.
CBS said last night that the report on the war would not run before Nov. 2.
"We now believe it would be inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election," the spokeswoman, Kelli Edwards, said in a statement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/25/politics/campaign/25cbs.html