New York Post - ...CBS, which had planned to break the explosives story on "60 Minutes" on Sunday -- 36 hours before the election -- said it now plans to run a story on the show charging that U.S. troops were sent to Iraq without proper body armor because of Bush's tax cuts, a charge often leveled by Kerry.
Does it bother anybody else to know that CBS has been casting around for weeks now trying to find an "explosive" story that will harm Bush so they can run it right before the election? News organizations are supposed to report the news. That's it. They aren't supposed to rig their reporting so that it influences national elections.
Look, they're taking one of John Kerry's talking points and using it as the basis for an "exclusive" story set to air right before the election. Do you see how convenient that is? How beneficial that is for Kerry? Bush certainly doesn't get treatment like that from the press. No news organization is going to make a story out a Bush talking point and put it out right before the election.
CBS News and some of its competitors may as well be a branch of the DNC.