CBS Nixed White House Request to Rebut Kennedy

This we have from NewsMax.com. And what makes it worse, this was after Andy Heyward, head of the CBS news division, promised White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett that CBS News would be more balanced in its coverage of this President.

At issue is Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) making a jackass of himself (and why else? He's a Democrat, and the jackass is their mascot!) before the National Press Club, and then getting the privilege of continuing his rant for a full hour on Face the Nation. Dan Bartlett wanted to come onto the program to rebut Kennedy's remarks, and CBS refused.

You will notice, if you ever watch anything on Fox News Channel, that Fox never invites the proponent of one side of a controversial issue without also inviting someone to expound the other side. Usually, you get two people to show up, so you have a moderated debate--and with a lot smarter questioning than you get on any other network, I might add. But CBS continues to do everything one-sided, thus showing that they have learned nothing from the Killian Memoranda episode. (Of course they haven't--because the panel investigating that fiasco refused to find political bias even while it was staring them in the face, as their own report clearly shows.)

Keep it up, Andy. (Heyword or Rooney, I don't give an unripe fig which.) Keep it up. And both of your Andys, and Dan, can all share a crater on the moon.