cBS' Spawns of Hell to Cannibalize Leader

According to the Drudge Report THE NEW YORK OBSERVER will report tomorrow with an article about how former 60 Minutes Wednesday executive editor Josh Howard has told colleagues that before he resigns, the 23-year CBS News veteran will demand that the network retract remarks by CBS president Leslie Moonves, correct its official story line and ultimately clear his name.

It was Josh Howard who warned CBS to admit to the hoax of the fake Bush Guard document.

Two days after the broadcast, Howard suggested that CBS admit it may have been the victim of a hoax. But the network refused to apologize for another 10 days, when Howard recalled telling his staff: "Your management failed you. I failed you."

Even though on Jan. 10, 2005 in the 224-page investigative report the memo describes how CBS president Leslie Moonves issued a statement dwelling on the failures of the employees involved in producing the disputed segment. Bad timing on Moonves part.

It was Powerline blog who suggested on January 18, 2005 that,

The biggest threat to CBS, I think, is an employee or two who don't want to take the fall and are willing to talk about how the National Guard story came to be. Given the cultural monolith at CBS and the other broadcast networks, I'd be shocked if anything really revelatory came out, but at a minimum, recalcitrance on the part of these "terminated" employees must be making Dan Rather and many others sweat.


Looks like Powerline Blog is right on the mark. Looks like Mr. Howard will be taking the route to defend his name and honor and has retained a lawyer. He has told associates that he would like to see Moonves put under oath to talk about his own roles in the network's stubborn, hapless defense of the flawed segment on President Bush's National Guard service.

According to the Drudge Report, Howard has also indicated to colleagues that he would subpoena specific CBS documents, including the e-mails of top executives.

Now, being the recalcitrance people they are, looks like cBS has just now stepped beyond the event horizon and are now staring down into their own blackhole. Once those e-mails of top executives become revelatory then certainly cBS would lose all credibility as a news organization. And if things gets nasty, perhaps a leak or two might happen. This is going to be the bare knuckle fight between Mr. Howard, the "fired employees", Moonves and cBS.

cBS deserve this fate in their reckless zeal to try and destroy the Republican party and President. Nice going Dan Rather. You've helped seal cBS' fate.

Now here comes the bloggers who would like to see those CBS documents and emails, too.