Spending 60 minutes with Don Hewitt: I will probably vote for Kerry.

CBSMARKETWATCH ^ | 04/23/04 | Jon Friedman

[demlosers]

Don Hewitt, the executive producer and creator of the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," says he is leaning toward voting for presidential candidate John Kerry.

"I would bet I'll probably vote for Kerry," Hewitt said late Wednesday afternoon during an hour-long interview in his office on West 57th Street. "But I don't know that yet."

Well Duh...

[sarasota]

I would imagine the entire CBS staff would be on board with liberals/Kerry. You'd have to be to put up with their spin.

[Nonstatist]

I'm an Eisenhower-Reagan Republican

10 grand says he never voted for Reagan

[tessalu]

Who cares who he votes for? I surely do not care.

[Connservative]

In other news, sun rises in east and sets in west..

More at 11:00PM

[AaronInCarolina]

"I would bet I'll probably vote for Kerry," Hewitt said late Wednesday afternoon during an hour-long interview in his office on West 57th Street."

Stop the presses!! Boy, who could have predicted this?? (sarcasm off)

[Izzy Dunne]

WHAT DO YOU LIKE - OR DISLIKE - ABOUT "60 MINUTES?"

The best thing about "60 Minutes" is that I don't have a TV.

[BushisTheMan]

Don Hewitt - anyone have access to his previous polical contributions? I'm just curious if his past contributions have leaned left or right.

[Verginius Rufus]

Robert Kennedy was not on the verge of getting the Democratic nomination when he was assassinated--Hubert Humphrey was still favored to win the nomination (all the people who would have backed LBJ were for him, plus the people who couldn't stand any of the Kennedys and who didn't think McCarthy was suitable).

[bmwcyle]

As if he was putting any thought to it.

[okie01]

"I would bet I'll probably vote for Kerry,"

And I would be the last time Hewitt voted GOP was in 1956.

[KellyAdmirer]

Sure, ol' Don Hewitt is just plain old, middle of the road Don, doesn't have a partisan bone in his body. Will surely just weigh the candidates equally and impartially and then just happen to pull the lever for Kerry, just as he surely happened after much anguish and internal reflection to pull the lever for Clinton, Dukakis, Mondale, Carter, McGovern.... Sure thing, Don, and don't forget to keep plugging your company's books on the show.

[Spok]

This would only be news if he WASN'T voting for Kerry.

[hawkaw]

Don Hewitt, the executive producer and creator of the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," says he is leaning toward voting for presidential candidate John Kerry.

It is not shocking becuase we knew it.

What is absolutely shocking and why the presses need to be stopped is that he and his other media friends try to tell us of their so-called "independence". Then he says this statement about who he is likely going to vote for in public. Thus, he "cements" what people like Rush and others have been saying all along - Hewitt et. al. are the "Partisan Press".

What a dishonest Bas!ard

hawk

p.s. - I suspect the reason why Hewitt uses the word "leaning" is just in case JFingK is tossed at the convention since JFK seems to be self-destructing right now.

[JohnnyZ]

Hewitt laments the outbreaks of terrorist attacks that have occurred since the U.S. invaded Iraq 13 months ago. "If I should hold anything against George Bush," Hewitt said, it was that the invasion "created more terrorists."

Right. THAT's what started it all. Invading Iraq.

Good grief . . .

[BushisTheMan]

Look Who’s Suggesting ABC, CBS, and NBC combine Nightly News Casts!

CBS Sixty Minutes Producer Don Hewitt must be reading our Network America e-wires.

Earlier this month Hewitt suggested that ABC, CBS, and NBC combine their nightly 6:30 PM newscasts. (Veteran readers know that this Network America e-wire has led the charge on the internet (thanks to all of you!) in spreading the good word that the news departments at the 5 Big TV Networks -- ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and FOX -- coordinate their news everyday in what amounts to a treasonous conspiracy of mind warfare against the American people.)

We couldn’t agree more. Hewitt’s stated reason was because such consolidation would save the three Biggest TV networks money. Implicit in Hewitt’s suggestion, though, is an admission that all three nightly newscasts are identical with regards to: a) the major stories they cover each day; b) the angle they cover those major stories from; c) the information they suppress about the stories they do cover; and d) the stories they ignore and suppress.

Hewitt was the Sixty Minutes producer who rushed Bill and Hillary Clinton onto his program the week after Gennifer Flowers went public against presidential candidate Clinton in 1992 right before the New Hampshire Primary. On that Sixty Minutes spot, two days before the New Hampshire primary, Clinton vaguely admitted he had caused pain in his marriage and Hillary, faking a mild southern accent, said she was not some kind of a “stand by your man” little woman.

The Big Media then used this lame excuse for TV theater to justify Bill Clinton’s “comeback” – at the same time they universally tried to discredit Gennifer Flowers’s revelations – even though Flowers made available taped phone conversations with Bill Clinton admitting the illicit relationship and asking Flowers not to admit or confirm anything to the press about their adulterous affair.

This same CBS producer, Don Hewitt, then bragged that he and Sixty Minutes had saved the Clinton presidency by airing this cozy spot on a show watched by millions of Americans.

In fact, this little stunt and the collaboration of all the Big TV networks (neither FOX nor MSNBC existed then) is one of the best proofs of the mind-warfare conspiracy against the American people by the Major TV Networks. That Don Hewitt knows what he’s talking about. He knows that the Big Media and the Big Bankers work together to promote their chosen candidates – and they weren’t going to let an average American (status wise) like Gennifer Flowers blow their plans for 8 years of Clinton – even though these same Big TV networks sunk Gary Hart’s Presidential candidacy (for one anti-Isreali comment Hart had made on McNeil-Lehrer) on the exact same basis 4 years earlier. The “chosen” candidates like Clinton, however, must ever remain on pins and needles,
because they are not high enough up in the political food chain to know what the next day’s news headlines will bring.

The combining of the Major TV Networks nightly newscasts would bring it out into the open: they are all the same newscast anyway, coordinated by the same like-minded crowd. And this is why the “powers that be” will never do it. Right now, almost every American still believes that the nightly “story picks” by ABC, CBS, and NBC validate that the “chosen” stories are the only stories worth covering. If anything else was important, the vast majority of gullible Americans reason, the Big TV Networks would all choose to cover it, right?

60 Minutes Producer Don Hewitt spoke out of turn and some reporters picked it up. Nevertheless, the mouthing of this suggestion by a major Media Insider is very helpful. Three cheers for the Arrogance of Power!

Jim Condit Jr.,
Director, Citizens for a Fair Vote Count

[Blood of Tyrants]

Can this clown be indicted for fraud?

[MamaLucci]

No chit, Next he'll be tellin us the Pope is Catholic. Duh.

[Smartass]

"I would imagine the entire CBS staff would be on board with liberals/Kerry. You'd have to be to put up with their spin."

CBS's general left-wing attitude is contributing to their
downward SPIN. They couldn't pay me to watch
their B.S. anymore. Dan Rather, Leslie Stahl, Andy Rooney
are all past their time, and journalistic slime.