Local station censors CBS 60 Minutes because they don't like what they see!


	Local station censors CBS 60 Minutes because they don't like what they see!

ratilfar

2-25-2008 5:38 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/90cb4531-6706-4b59-ae80-443f531be6fa/F36A0C93-CE06-4E89-9847-256CA3995A7F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/60-minutes-blocked/" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/60-minutes-blocked/" style="font-size: 11px;">thinkprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/60-minutes-blocked/"><P>Last night, CBS’s <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/main3859830.shtml">60 Minutes</A> aired its <A href="http://stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=700943">long-awaited</A> report on Alabama’s incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, featuring allegations that <A href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_LLY8gc6av_Whr8kdxbeuy5EFXwD8UV1US80">Karl Rove personally told</A> a Republican operative in the state to find evidence that Siegelman was cheating on his wife. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/60-minutes-blocked/"><P>Siegelman, a Democrat, was <A href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/progressreport/2007/10/rove.html">convicted in 2006</A> for conspiracy, bribery and fraud. But observers from all sides of the political spectrum are now questioning whether his prosecution “was pursued <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/main3859830.shtml">not because of a crime but because of politics</A>.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/60-minutes-blocked/"><P>Watch the report:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/60-minutes-blocked/"><DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/60-minutes-blocked/"><P>Though the report aired last night, it was not seen by everyone who may have wished to view it. In several Alabama locations, “<A href="http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/update-on-the-m.html">the show was blocked</A> - black screen - during the Siegelman segment of 60 Minutes only.” Harper’s Scott Horton, who has investigated the Siegelman prosecution and was interviewed for the segment, <A href="http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002487">reports</A>:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F36A0C93-CE06-4E89-9847-256CA3995A7F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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