'FRAID NOT! You hold undisputed title to that "crown".
Remember saying
"CBS and 60 MINUTES in particular is the most credible TV news organization in the country."
or words to that effect?
I guess you forgot about the time when Don Hewitt, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes, admitted editing the Gennifer Flowers interview with the express goal of helping Clinton get the nomination.
NARRATOR: FOR SECURITY PURPOSES, GARY JOHNSON HAD INSTALLED A VIDEO
CAMERA NEAR THE FRONT DOOR OF HIS QUAPAW TOWER CONDOMINIUM.
GARY JOHNSON: Looking at someone in front of my door, it got a perfect
shot of them in front of Gennifer Flowers' condominium, and it wasn't
my intention ever to take pictures of Bill Clinton going in to see
Gennifer Flowers. I could care less who Bill Clinton goes to see.
But it just so happened she lived next door to me and I mounted the
camera there.
LARRY NICHOLS: Guess what he caught on tape? Bill Clinton walking into
Gennifer Flowers' apartment on numerous occasions -- with a key.
GARY JOHNSON: I actually saw him go into her condominium. It wasn't
that I was standing there looking out my peep hole, watching Gennifer
Flowers' condominium. It had nothing to do with Bill Clinton, it's
just that I had got, I had got the camera. I had the camera before
Gennifer Flowers moved in and when she moved in she just happened to
have some very interesting house guests.
LARRY NICHOLS: Go back to 60 Minutes when Bill and Hillary were love
and kisses. They stood up and lied, and Bill said that he'd never been
to her apartment, that he'd only called her once from the kitchen and
from his office. That's an absolute lie, and these tapes proved it.
NARRATOR: THE 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW HAD BEEN DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO
SAVE CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN, NOT NECESSARILY TO GET TO THE TRUTH.
DON HEWITT (Executive Producer, "60 Minutes"): And they came to us
because they were in big trouble in New Hampshire. They were about to
lose right there and they needed some first aid. They needed some
bandaging. What they needed was a paramedic. So they came to us and
we did it and that's what they wanted to do. When I told Tim Russer
that I was persona-non-grata at the White House, he said, "Why?" I
said, "The Gennifer Flowers interview." He said, "You got him the
nomination." I said, "I know that." As far as I know from the
conversations I've had, Bernie Nussbaum knew that, Gergen knows that,
Lloyd Cutler certainly knows it 'cause Lloyd had a hand in his coming
on that night.
You know it was strong medicine the way I edited it but he was a very
sick candidate. He needed very strong medicine, and I'm not in the
business of doctoring candidates but he got up out of a sick bed that
night and walked to the nomination and as I said to Mandy, "You know
if I'd edited it your way, you know where you'd be today? You'd still
be up in New Hampshire looking for the nomination." He became the
candidate that night.
JUDGE JIM JOHNSON: When the Gennifer Flowers story broke, that story was
a hundred times more credible than the story that literally knocked
Gary Hart out of the campaign.
GARY JOHNSON: I'd been Gennifer Flowers' neighbor, I knew that Bill
Clinton wasn't telling the truth about that. Bill Clinton, I think,
would do just about anything to, to save his political hide.
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