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That 60 Minutes story about Benghazi that has been kinda/sorta retracted is still being fact-checked and it keeps looking worse and worse. CBS is going to have to throw some bodies out in order to prove their standards are higher than this.

People are saying that CBS got in trouble because they were too eager to run a story that the Fox News crowd would like, and which might make more of them more disposed to watch CBS. I don't believe that. The folks I know who think CBS is solid Liberal Propaganda wouldn't change their view if 60 Minutes tracked down incontrovertible evidence of 50 impeachable offenses by Barack Obama. They'd probably just accuse CBS of doing it to cover up hundreds of others. The New York Times smeared Bill Clinton with bogus Whitewater stories and others that should have delighted Clinton's enemies but those folks didn't trust the Times one iota more. I think CBS just did some bad reporting, possibly driven by a reporter with an agenda. And the outrage over it isn't going to die until that reporter and several other employees do the full Dan Rather Walk of Shame.