I agree with you, but in this case, I think they MAY have seen it as a power-hungry DA against some innocent kids (way for libs to view this without revoking their lib cards...) It was shockingly pro-defense, AKA truthful, IMO. Otherwise, I'm with you. They (CBS) are generally horrible.
What has resulted in this 60 Minutes segment is a decision by the liberal media establishment to do a little damage control.
Apparently it has became clear even to the aging lefties at 60 Minutes that the travesty that is the Duke lacrosse case actually works more to discredit their liberal racist agenda than to help it, and is precisely the kind of event that might cause a few independent-minded black folks and soccer moms to begin to question some assumptions about the liberal party line.
And so, as they have concluded that the Duke boys are very unlikely to in fact end up being successfully railroaded, they have decided to get out in front of it now.
Isn't it interesting that 60 Minutes said they have been studying this case intensively for SIX MONTHS? It wouldn't take a person of average intelligence more than a few hours of familiarizing himself with the reported facts of the case to come the same conclusion as 60 Minutes.
And note how careful they were to have the most damaging conclusions about the case articulated by a black Duke law professor.
BTW, I note that Kim has NOT changed her story in any important respect as to the facts of what she observed in her various accounts of that night. What she claims to be her "opinion" as to whether the Duke boys might have done it may have changed, but she has been fairly careful to be consistent in her account of the hard facts of what she saw and heard.
And how does Leslie Stahl manage to keep a straight face while pretending to sympathize with a Christian critic bemoaning Bush's failure to do more to accomplish his faith-based initiative? Extra botox injections?