How disappointing for Pelley. You know he had to be hoping that McCain would say yes, although you have to wonder why he would think he might. He was plainly fishing. He should have followed the trial lawyers' advice: never ask a question that you don't know the answer to. I just wish that McCain, instead of elaborating, had simply said "No." It would have been interesting to see what Pelley's follow-up question would have been.

I wished 60 Minutes would be reduced to 60 seconds.

Pelley was totally insane to ask such a question...but insanity runs in the media markets of all venues.

I know what I would of said to Pelley....

Here I thought that none of our politician's children were fighting this war.

What the MSM can't understand is the desire of many to serve. They can't understand why in some families, generation after generation choose to serve. Somehow the MSM sees that as a flaw. They don't understand that those previous generations were proud of their service and passed that pride on to their children. They don't see that some Americans think this country is worth fighting, and even dying, for.  The MSM sees that as a defect.

Duncan Hunter is a veteran, Army Airborne, IIRC. His son was (is?) a Marine with two deployments to Iraq. Why, oh why, the MSM would ask.

Would the MSM ask someone why generation after generation in some families become cops? Or firemen? I doubt it.

My Dad was a career Navy man. He never tried to talk me out of serving - never. All he ever told me was that I could do anything I wanted to do, and made sure (kicked my butt even) I did well in school.

Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!

Once again we have a Republican, one that I don't think deserves the nomination by the way, that is underserved by his supporters.  That McCain and his supporters didn't realize that the drive-by media is there to ensure that whoever emerges as the Republican candidate fails to get elected is just stupid.  What does it take for McCain, et al, to stand up to this type of questioning and throw it back in their faces? 

PELLEY: Did you try to talk him out of it?

McCain: No, that's your job.

In a somewhat related story, I was flipping the channels this evening and came upon this gem, "Live from Bagdhad" circa 2002 HBO made for TV movie.  It supposedly tells of the brave courageous CNN folks that arrive in Iraq just after Hussein had invaded Kuwait.  What we know is that happenstance is a bold face lie as is the rest of the movie.  CNN was there and had been there for years prior to Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.  In fact they admitted that they had on the editorial pages of the NYT and had done Hussein's bidding.  The movie moves from one castrophe to another with the CNN reporters screwing up American's lives in Iraq while sending back to the American people a pack of BS. 

If there ever was a white wash of the truth this movie has got to be it.  To recap, CNN hides how for years they got the stories they did while in Iraq .  They screwed up American's live while in country.  They legitimized Hussein.  Then, they have a movie made to make themselves out has heroes and cover up their complicitnous of a heinous murdering henchman. 

CNN has yet to make apologies to the Iraqi people let alone to the American public. 

An interesting aside, if you read the reviews on the IMDB web site of the movie ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319758/usercomments?start=0), the majority of the reviewers lambast HBO's efforts for portraying CNN for being like Fox News (conservative) and doing the "bidding" of President Bush.  It is truly incredible.

While searching Scott Pelly's bio at 60 Minutes, I can find nothing on his age but he graduated college and got his first job in 1975. He has a son, age not given, who I wonder has ever been in the military or even thought of being in the military. Odds against anyone? His bio reads like a Forrest Gump "been at all these defining moments" type of thing. To bad he hasn't learned anything from them.

Truth fears no trial.
- Proverb