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Yes, I watched the CBS Evening News on tuesday night (central time zone). The execution led the broadcast.

I can only paraphrase, but Rather pretty much prefaced the broadcast with "We must warn you that what you will see and hear tonight are very graphic, so you may want children to leave the room now."

CBS showed a prolonged, but of course incomplete version of the execution. The execution video aired by CBS shows the raghead reading and finishing his speech, afterwhich he hands his script over to the idiot standing next to him and swiftly produces a two foot (approx.) knife out of his shirt while grabbing the hostage's hair. The raghead (a right-hander) then forces the hostage from his sitting position to the laying-down-sideways position while placing the knife to his throat.

The video image pauses when the hostage is inches above the ground but before the sawing begins. CBS let the audio briefly continue so I could hear shouts of "Alluhar Akbar!," but no screams. Then it stops. Back in the studio, Rather says something like, "His head was then held up to the camera, and his eyes were open."

In due fairness to CBS, all night FOX News (which was way below standard on tuesday) and other cable networks terminated the video at the point where the raghead produces the knife. That seems to be the media standard on this atrocity. CBS exceeded that "taste standard" by showing the hostage thrust to the floor with the knife at his throat. You can see the baffled and terrified look on his face.

And that's the truth. I don't intend to view the full tape.

Note to FOX News - The next time you break from a riveting live report from Iraq showing a Marine tank smashing into a mosque compound (read: exploding munitions dump) in order to broadcast a live Kobe Bryant hearing, you've lost me. "Excuse me Jim, we have to go to Eagle Pass Colorado..." ugh.