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In an age when most reporters for the American media are timid, pasty, milquetoast mumblers, Lara Logan stands head and balls above the rest. Sure, we’ve seen some stories about her romantical adventures in Iraq’s Green Zone and an exciting brawl in a safe house between two rival suitors — and our only question is, Just two? MORE »

Oh no no no no no, no, no! Katie Couric’s debate has been canceled, and she’ll never be a famous teevee star like Bob Schieffer. The North Carolina Democratic party has nixed the proposed April 27 CBS debate because of logistical and scheduling concerns. In its press release, however, the party did hint at the real issue for cancellation: “There were also growing concerns about what another debate would do to party unity.” In other words, the state party and CBS don’t want to be maligned as badly as George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson and everyone involved in last week’s crapfest-from-space were. [Deep breath]. Thank God there is not a debate on April 27. [Ben Smith]

CBS is loving the hell out of this Bosnia story, the one where Hillary fabricated an entire event to make herself look like a Tuff Guy. Here’s the latest, most thorough report on the matter. If you still cannot understand the offensive nature of Hillary’s actions, check out Liberal Blog X, and it will angrily explain why this offends you. [YouTube]

On her CBS news program yesterday, Katie Couric asked various presidential candidates what’s the most “disillusioning” part of running for president. Typical liberal elitist Barry Obama says he hates going to free chicken dinner fundraisers when he could be doing, say, anything else. As someone who hasn’t had a hot meal in several months, I’d urge Barry to be thankful that someone feeds him.

Hilariousness part 1: A new New York Times/CBS poll finds voters credit the presidential candidates “with spending more time explaining what they would do as president rather than attacking their opponents.” Hilariousness part 2: “Hillary Clinton was viewed as running the most positive campaign of the leading Democratic candidates.” [The Caucus]

Yesterday in New York Supreme Court, CBS filed a 30-page motion to dismiss former reporter Dan Rather’s $70 million civil lawsuit, reports The New York Observer. CBS executives released a statement saying network execs are “mystified” by Rather’s “bizarre allegations” and will “vigorously” defend themselves in court. “Dan Rather is one of the most important figures in the history of broadcast journalism, and for more than 40 years was one of our most valued colleagues,” CBS said in the statement. “That is why we at CBS are mystified and saddened by the baseless and self-serving allegations and distortions of fact raised in his lawsuit.” Details after the jump. MORE »

Dennis Kucinich, who’s on a weird streak even by his standards, appeared on CBS’ Early Show this morning with UFO mail-order bride Elizabeth to discuss politics or scenic Lake Erie or something. CBS Interviewer Hannah Storm had different talking points prepared, however, mostly involving Elizabeth’s tongue stud, clothes, jewelry, maybe how fucking hot she is, et cetera and so forth. MORE »

On the confusing CBS show Kid Nation — the one where children run their own little leper colony and say silly kid things (i.e. Larry Craig’s #1 weekly TiVo choice) — the kids’ city-state held council elections last night and winners were determined by which team could properly arrange the order of recent U.S. presidents. After her team won, Kelsey, 11, compared the Kid Nation political scene to that of the U.S. with this deft analysis: “Look at George W. Bush — he’s not smart at all but he won the U.S. presidency two times in a row.” The latent subtext, of course, being that Al Gore and John Kerry have failed America’s youth.

Kid Nation [CBS]

* Mooves, Rather bicker over who is better at fabricating news. [Huff Po]
* Breaking! Must read! Candidates are supported by the voters they appeal to the most! [Political Wire]
* Have you ever noticed that President Bush can be a little frustrating? [Redstate]
* Bush confuses his war policy with something else. [The Swamp]

* That he thinks announcing his candidacy on Letterman is edgy doesn’t even make a top-ten list of things that suck about John McCain. [WP, NYT]
* Fired US Attorney invents conspiracy theory to help him cope with failure. [WP, NYT]
* Barry Hussein biographer writes 20,000 words in two weeks while political journalists doodle in their notebooks. [WSJ]
* FEC now dropping fines like it was the FCC. [NYT]
* Ken Mehlman charges corporate clients hefty sums to make sure they can keep making shit-tons. [WSJ]
* Congressional Republicans continue their long tradition of trying to hold down people of color by getting petty with William Jefferson’s committee appointment. What’s he ever done? [WP]
* Democrats find a nerd-king in their ranks, let him budget things to his heart’s content. [WP]
* Fill yourself with nostalgia for the age of the classic American liberal dandy. [WP, NYT, LAT]