CBS loves to pose as the opponents of propaganda and misinformation, but when it comes to their own long history of making propaganda, they can only glorify themselves. On Sunday’s 60 Minutes, they aired a 13-minute puff piece on Democrat activist and actor George Clooney, now making a Broadway play out of his CBS-mythologizing movie Good Night and Good Luck.
CBS interviewer Jon Wertheim made a disclosure early in this puff piece about his work with Clooney and his partner Grant Heslov: “Full disclosure, the three of us collaborated on an unrelated sports documentary out later this year.”
The truth gets mangled early on in this segment. Wertheim explained about Sen. Joseph McCarthy: “At the height of the Red Scare, the Wisconsin senator led a crusade to weed out supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government.”
Supposed? We’re not in the 1950s…
