CBS doctors McCain interview to cover up false statements

The McCain camp claims the media favors Barack Obama.

But none other than news giant CBS edited an interview by Katie Couric to remove false statements by John McCain, substituting the answer to a different question to cover up McCain's incorrect assertions.

Their subterfuge was exposed by The Jed Report:


... Yet another bold demonstration that the dirty tricks and media collusion of the past will have a much harder time surviving in the new online democracy -- at least until the dirty tricksters can improve their clumsy tactics.

An extra helping of opprobrium to CBS who seems to be bending over backward to help the GOP these days.

Not that they can't use all the help they can get when they're (presumably) going to nominate for president a guy who can't seem to keep the countries of the Middle East straight.

McCain, of course, recently was caught mistakenly claiming that Iraq shares a border with Pakistan -- and incredible gaffe for the "National Security" candidate.

But in an undoctored section of the Couric video on CBS, he also claims -- without correction or comment by CBS -- that the Iraq invasion was the first major conflict after the 9/11 attacks.

How soon we forget... especially odd, since the actual first major conflict after the attacks -- in Afghanistan! -- has never stabilized and is now perilously close to blowing back up into widespread conflict with the resurgent Taliban -- who McCain and Bush much earlier had assured us were neutralized.

Now, why on earth most US Americans think McCain is best suited to manage the US's security is anyone's guess... but I'm thinking a lot of the credit goes to propaganda outfits like Fox and CBS News who continue to cover up and even doctor the news in order to promote a continuation of Bush policies.

By hook or by crook.