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Author:   Matt Deatherage  
Posted: 9/7/04; 4:57:25 PM
Topic: Will Oklahoma City see Ben Barnes's interview?
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Will Oklahoma City see Ben Barnes's interview?

According to Josh Marshall, CBS News's 60 Minutes (Wednesday) program tomorrow, 2004.09.08, will contain a package on George W. Bush's service (or lack thereof) in the National Guard in 1973, including an inteview with Ben Barnes. He's the former Speaker of the House in the Texas Legislature who is apparently now admitting not only that he got Bush into the National Guard ahead of thousands on a waiting list, but that he agreed to keep quiet about Bush lying about it in exchange for a client not losing a multi-billion-dollar contract.

However, as of the time I post this, Oklahoma City's CBS affiliate, KWTV-9 (affiliated on the Web with The Oklahoman), apparently doesn't plan to let anyone around here see it. They have scheduled A Time to Live, a one-hour fundraising program for St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital, instead of 60 Minutes.

Update: When I first posted this, CBS News's own Web site did not yet list what will be on tomorrow night's program, but now the site says it will be the Ben Barnes show. Will KWTV do the right thing and air this first-run program with the anti-Bush story, or suppress the story in the name of "charity work?"

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