Smoking GunsBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | May 13, 2003 PONTEFICATIONSEVERY SUNDAY CBS’ "60 MINUTES" FIRES A HIT PIECE concocted to damage President George W. Bush. Its May 11 smear attack, implying that Mr. Bush and the Republican Party were eager to put firearms into criminal hands, demonstrated journalistic dishonesty as slanted and partisan as that of the self-righteously leftist New York Times.The "hero" of the CBS story was Robert Ricker, who after two decades working as "a top lawyer for the NRA [National Rifle Association] as well as the chief spokesman for the gun industry," suddenly in 1999 switched sides.He was...