CBS: 60 Minutes reads three Free Republic-style letters/emails reacting to its Benghazi story

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Why didn't Clinton testify, why didn't help get sent, etc etc.

60 Minutes is no different than Breitbart. I expect them to hire James O'Keefe.

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1. No kidding

Any show can make a mistake, that happens, but to run that report, have its major source be caught in a big ass lie, and to make zero corrections at all, is pretty unbelievable but add in those letters, and wow, just wow.

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2. Straight out of the O'Reilly Report school of journamalism nt

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3. And . . .

And to not even mention the controversy!

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6. after what happened to Dan Rather, not surprising

he took the fall and the show is no longer credible. But their fanbase is made up of that demographic that still thinks they serve up REAL news (i.e. my parents)

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4. Did they mention that...

Did they mention that the man identified in the report as Morgan Jones... real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies?

Media Matters Founder Calling on 60 Minutes to Retract Report on Benghazi

60 Minutes did a new, in-depth report on the attack at the American consulate in Benghazi last year, and it helped to revitalize the national debate over the attack. CBS’s report featured an exclusive with a man who recounted what he witnessed, but Media Matters founder David Brock is calling on 60 Minutes to retract the report for a big error.

The key criticism here surrounds the man identified in the report as Morgan Jones (though his real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies afterwards). He told 60 Minutes he was witness to the attack, and described what he saw around him, but a Washington Post report on Thursday says that does not match his earlier testimony on the matter, just three days after the attack on the compound.

In Davies’s 21 / 2-page incident report to Blue Mountain, the Britain-based contractor hired by the State Department to handle perimeter security at the compound, he wrote that he spent most of that night at his Benghazi beach-side villa. Although he attempted to get to the compound, he wrote in the report, “we could not get anywhere near . . . as roadblocks had been set up.”

He learned of Stevens’s death, Davies wrote, when a Libyan colleague who had been at the hospital came to the villa to show him a cellphone picture of the ambassador’s blackened corpse. Davies wrote that he visited the still-smoking compound the next day to view and photograph the destruction.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/media-matters-founder-calling-on-60-minutes-to-retract-report-on-benghazi/

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5. No, just chose rightwing, Clinton-hating cheers like Bill O'Reilly does

No mention of any of the issues that were raised.

The entire program--from the Neocon hack Lara Logan through their executive producers, have decided to chase disenchanted Fox viewers.

Liberals have no reason to watch it.

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7. 60 Minutes lost journalistic credibility a long time ago when it turned into a

cheerleader for war that GW Bush pushed. Fuck 60 Minutes, it's not worth watching and all of it's bullshit will be eviscerated by much more capable online journalists.