October Surprise Becomes October Oops?

Sigh. First, you heard that the New York Times was reporting the IAEA was blasting George W. Bush for a loss of tons of high-powered explosives. You heard somewhere else that these explosives were strong enough to set off a nuclear bomb!!! Then you heard that John Kerry was trying to use the story to score political points over the president. But now suddenly we are learning three rather uncomfortable truths. First, this is not news - it was reported by NBC's embedded reporters over a year ago. Two, the explosives were stolen/taken/destroyed before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And three, CBSNews had planned to reveal this "news" on Sunday night as an "October Surprise" to blast the president.



Wait, you thought that a news organization was above that kind of thing. So did I. But this shows that forged documents are not enough for someone in the CBS News organization. Anything, but anything, is fair game, if it means problems for GWB. I think it may be time for fair-minded BLoggers to let CBS know that a boycott of their programming has begun. And just in time for November Sweeps, too.