When 911 happened the MSM appeared to care. This is nothing more than the same. Only now we can probably conclude that the story was junk to begin with and because of a FR induced "light of day leak", had to be scrapped.
CBS will make whatever excuse it wants, including "the story is too close to an election", which by the way is an admission of a pending violation. Because in effect, they are admitting it is a polical ad disguised as journalism.
Did FR have a hand in exposing them? YES. Should we believe defeat of the left wing stanglehold on the MSM is upon us? no. no. no. and no.
Groupthink is a powerful tool! If I or we were groupthinkers, I would expect FR to dump me from the forum for disagreeing with y'all. It is because we as conservatives disagree and debate that we hold the title of FreeThinker, which is the antithesis of Groupthink.
Conversely, our friends on the left, congeal around a common opinion regardless of fact or reason. No story has made this point better than the recent TANG episode. The charlatans on the left, in an attempt to give their constituency some glimmer of hope that they still have credibility, laid pipeline after pipeline of mindless mental outs.
Perfect example1: Buckhead is a Republican.
Perfect example2: Partisan hacks in pajamas
So what?! How does that change the fact that the CBS story is founded on a lie? It doesn't of course, but one of the key disfunctional behaviors of groupthink is self censorship followed by closely by ostracizeation for believing differently than the group.
In this light, all you need to do is establish irrelavent thought pipelines leading your dupe away from your own guilt to a place of superiority (a happy place *elitism*).
Hence, the rapid Kookification (discredit) approach. They say people on the Right are kooks, therefor the Right are not to be taken seriously. Therefor, whatever facts lay before you, do not trouble yourself with. The group believes THIS afterall. If you do not agree with us, then we will simply have to not like you anymore.
..and this is enough to persuade most people. Which is why the left keeps defying reason and publishing these diversionary thought taps.
Sad. Sad. Sad.