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Justice Scalia: Mired in the 18th Century

Kathryn Kolbert | Posted April 29, 2008 | Politics


Kathryn Kolbert

Justice Antonin Scalia made a rare appearance on 60 Minutes Sunday night, the subject of an interview by an unusually gushing Leslie Stahl. Scalia generally avoids cameras, but he's hawking a new book about advocacy for lawyers. In the course of the segment viewers got a good look at Scalia's...

HuffPost Blogger Scoops 60 Minutes

Mike Stark | Posted April 26, 2008 | Politics


Mike Stark

On April 10, 2008, Justice Antonin Scalia was given an award at the University of Virginia. Scalia was a founder of the Federalist Society; while he was at the school, he spoke at a lunch for UVa Fed. Soc. members.

Guess what? I'm a member. I went.

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Why Our Feith-Based Iraqi Policy Failed

Lionel Beehner | Posted April 7, 2008 | Politics


Lionel Beehner

Here we go again. Another architect of the Iraq war's disastrous aftermath has written a spine-tingling tell-all that basically reads as a had-you-listened-to-me-none-of-this-would've-happened fairy tale. Douglas Feith, a neo-con from the Henry "Scoop" Jackson School for War Mongering Idealists and former No. 3 man at the Pentagon, insists had we...

Watch Al Gore: "I'm Not Applying For The Job Of Broker"

Huffington Post   |   March 30, 2008 10:30 PM


Speaking to 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl on Sunday, former Vice President Al Gore said that Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are courting his endorsement. And many Democrats are looking to the former standard-bearer to help end the...

Gore Launches $300 Million Climate Change Initiative

Huffington Post   |   March 30, 2008 10:07 PM


Former Vice President Al Gore is set to unveil a three-year, $300 million climate change campaign Wednesday, one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history, the Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports: The Alliance for Climate...

Where "60 Minutes" Missed The Mark On Big-Pharma Lawsuit Story

CJR   |  Dean Starkman   |   March 27, 2008 06:49 PM

Read More: 60 Minutes, Biovail

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued a Canadian drug maker this week--and in the process blew apart the premise of a two-year-old 60 Minutes investigative piece on short sellers. The March 2006 segment by Lesley Stahl sought to warn viewers...

Dennis Quaid's Misdiagnosis

Alison Rose Levy | Posted March 23, 2008 | Living


Alison Rose Levy

Dennis Quaid's movie star status affords his family the best medical care available. But it couldn't shield his children from the dangers encountered by rich and by poor upon entering a hospital.

As everyone knows, the Quaid twins were mistakenly given intravenous doses of the blood thinner, Heparin, 2000 times...

Anderson Cooper Plays With David Beckham On "60 Minutes"

Huffington Post   |   March 21, 2008 11:30 AM


This coming Sunday, CBS will broadcast an interview between regular CNN host and occasional "60 Minutes" contributor Anderson Cooper and soccer megastar David Beckham. In the preview clip, seen below, Cooper pals around with Beckham and tries his hand at...

Morning Shows, Newsmags See Audiences Decline

New York Times/TV Decoder   |  Brian Stelter   |   March 17, 2008 08:22 AM


Sure, the ratings for the evening newscasts are steadily sinking. That twenty-year-old trend is hardly surprising. But a new report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism highlights a less-publicized decline for two other television news segments: morning shows and...

Dennis Quaid On Death By Medical Error: "It's Bigger Than AIDS, It's Bigger Than Breast Cancer"

CBS   |   March 13, 2008 05:08 PM


Dennis Quaid sat down with "60 Minutes" and opened up about the medical mistake that almost cost his newborn twins their lives at LA's Cedars Sinai hospital. They were lucky, but many patients are not. As Quaid tells Steve Kroft,...

Hillary Clinton, 60 Minutes, and the Muslim question

Eric Boehlert | Posted March 11, 2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

When people suggest that the press employs a separate standard for covering Clinton, this is the kind of episode they're talking about. There simply is no other candidate, from either party, who has had their comments, their fragments, dissected so dishonestly the way Clinton's have been.

If you look...

Icahn: I Made $300M On Time Warner

CNN/Money   |   March 6, 2008 07:18 PM


Billionaire investor Carl Icahn may have lost his bid to break up Time Warner Inc., but he will tell "60 Minutes," how he walked away with $300 million, CBS Corp. said Thursday. In an interview scheduled to air on Sunday,...

Hillary's Stockholm Syndrome

Joel Whitney | Posted March 4, 2008 | Politics


Joel Whitney

Clinton and Obama duke it out today in Ohio and Texas, and there are questions over what Clinton will do if her candidacy continues to falter. For Democrats or Independents still undecided between the two, a report on 60 Minutes Sunday offers some telling data; Steve Kroft's segment captures...

That Other "60 Minutes" Story: About 47 Million Uninsured Americans Desperate For Health Care

Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 4, 2008 11:35 AM


Hey, did you see that shocking video clip from 60 Minutes the other night? The one about an issue pivotal about the current Democratic campaign?

FCC Official Wants Investigation Of "60 Minutes" Rove Blackout

Reuters   |  Peter Kaplan   |   March 4, 2008 09:01 AM


U.S. Federal Communications Commission official is seeking an inquiry into the blacking out of a politically charged segment of the CBS News magazine "60 Minutes" by a local television station in Alabama. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said he had asked...

An Open Letter to Powerline (And Others): For the Love of Karl Rove?

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted March 1, 2008 | Politics


Larisa Alexandrovna

Dear Powerline (and others by association):

In your open letter to CBS News about their 60 Minutes broadcast on the Don Siegelman case, you begin by readily admitting that you are a late-comer to the story. Yet despite not having the facts or apparently seen the investigative reports...

CBS Local Station Claims Equipment Failure For Blackout During Karl Rove Story

Huffington Post   |   February 29, 2008 11:26 AM


Blogger Larisa Alexandrovna wrote about the blackouts that occured during a 60 Minutes story on how Karl Rove had helped to put Alabama's democratic Governor in jail. Alexandrovna pointed out that CBS in New York first claimed responsibility for the...
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CBS Reporter Shot With Raygun

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Jason Linkins   |   February 28, 2008 03:03 PM


This Sunday, 60 Minutes will report on a new non-lethal crowd control device, which they refer to as a "raygun." And the best part is: they "shoot" it repeatedly at reporter John Martin! The device, shown being used on Martin...
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