Yesterday Steve Kroft explained to Piers Morgan why Obama does so many interviews with 60 Minutes (via Newsbusters):
PIERS MORGAN, HOST: And joining me now is 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft. Steve, welcome to you.
STEVE KROFT, CBS NEWS: Thank you, Piers. Nice to be here.
MORGAN: I want to thank you for getting every single Obama interview that I’ve been trying to get in the last two years on CNN first of all.
KROFT: I’ve done a lot.
MORGAN: [Laughs]. Let me ask you at the top, why do you think he keeps coming to you? Because there’s two schools of thought. One is that you’re the most brilliant, penetrating interviewer on American television, and the other one is that you give him a soft time, neither of which I suspect is entirely the true picture.
STEVE KROFT: No, I think that first of all, I think he likes 60 Minutes. It’s, you know, we have a huge audience. We have a format that suits him. It’s long. We can do twelve minutes or 24 minutes. We do a, you know, we do a good job of editing. And I’ve been doing these interviews with him since a few weeks before he declared his candidacy. So I covered him during the campaign and have kept doing it in the White House.
But I think it’s a question of fairness. I, we have not, I think he knows that we’re not going to play gotcha with him, that we’re not going to go out of our way to make him look bad or stupid, and we’ll let him answer the questions.
What an admission. Not only will they not go out of their way to make him look bad or stupid, but they will protect him to help him get elected.
Oh yes, they sat on footage of Obama from right after Benghazi, hours after his big speech in the Rose Garden, where he refused to call Benghazi a terrorist attack. And when did they release finally it? TWO days before the election. They waited until after the debates where Obama lied and said he did call it a terrorist attack and Candy Crowley made Romney look bad. They waited until the very last minute so that even if it did get exposed, it would have minimal impact on Obama’s chances to win.
No Steve Kroft, it’s not that you don’t go out of your way to make him look bad, you go out of your way to PROTECT Obama like the state-run media propagandist hack you are. That’s why he loves 60 minutes – because you kiss his butt up one side and down the other.
Ugh.