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Cigar
11-11-2013, 07:43 AM
Former '60 Minutes' Producer: Discredited Benghazi Story Was Done To Appeal To Conservatives


A former "60 Minutes" producer who was fired over a 2004 story about then-President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard said Friday that CBS' now retracted story detailing the attack in Benghazi, Libya was done to appeal to conservatives.

"My concern is that the story was done very pointedly to appeal to a more conservative audience's beliefs about what happened at Benghazi," Mary Mapes told Media Matters. "They appear to have done that story to appeal specifically to a politically conservative audience that is obsessed with Benghazi and believes that Benghazi was much more than a tragedy."

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, who is also widely believed to have left the network as a result of the 2004 flap, declined to comment on the discredited Benghazi story when reached by TPM through a spokesperson on Friday.

The chairman of CBS News and executive producer of "60 Minutes" on Friday apologized for airing the story, telling Variety that the network would now "own it."


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patrickt
11-11-2013, 08:06 AM
Wow! TalkingPointsMemo gives you "A former "60 Minutes" producer who was fired over a 2004 story about then-President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard said Friday that CBS' now retracted story detailing the attack in Benghazi, Libya was done to appeal to conservatives." and you run with it.

Perhaps you should consider reading more on Fox News and less on TalkingPointsMemo?

Professor Peabody
11-11-2013, 12:00 PM
Former '60 Minutes' Producer: Discredited Benghazi Story Was Done To Appeal To Conservatives

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Not one single reliable news source reported this story. More big "scoop" from the Toilet Paper Memo!