[slickeroo]

The more things change--the more they remain the same.

[gussiefinknottle]

Hewitt was a thug.

[hoosierham]

The statists are always willing to sacrifice others for the delusion of utopian plans.

[Starboard]

But it was on that April date that Don Hewitt's brainchild, 60 Minutes

Make that 60 Liberal Minutes

[GOPJ]

An editor of the New York Times years ago won a Pulitzer for covering for Stalin - enabling the murders of millions of Russians.

The MSM seems to love the "bad boys" - maybe they're all a bunch of creepy masochists who fantasize one of these thugs will beat them up... What else could it be? They're not really stupid - so what else is there?

[wally_bert]

Very true. I always enjoy Fontova’s articles, very good reading.

[freespirited]

Here's what America didn't see: "Juan Miguel Gonzalez was surrounded by Castro security agents the entire time he was in the studio with Rather." This is an eye-witness account from Pedro Porro, who served as Dan Rather's translator during the famous 60 Minutes interview. Dan Rather would ask the question in English into Porro's earpiece whereupon Porro would translate it into Spanish for Elian's heavily-guarded father.

"Juan Miguel was never completely alone," says Porro. "He never smiled. His eyes kept shifting back and forth. It was obvious to me that he was under heavy coercion. I probably should have walked out. But I'd been hired by CBS in good faith and I didn't know exactly how the interview would be edited - how it would come across on the screen.

"The questions Dan Rather was asking Elian's father during that 60 Minutes interview were being handed to him by attorney Gregory Craig (current White House counsel, btw)," continues Pedro Porro. "It was obvious that Craig and Rather where on very friendly terms. They were joshing and bantering back and forth, as Juan Miguel sat there petrified. Craig was stage managing the whole thing - almost like a movie director. The taping would stop and he'd walk over to Dan, hand him a little slip of paper, say something into his ear. Then Rather would read the next question into my earpiece straight from the paper."

"Midway through watching that 60 minutes broadcast, I felt like throwing up," said Porro. "My stomach was in a knot." His worst fears were confirmed.

I have zero trouble believing this.