From RatherBiased.com [quoting Broadcasting and Cable magazine]:

. . . CBS News president Andrew Heyward, along with Washington bureau chief Janet Leissner, recently met with White House communications director Dan Bartlett, in part to repair chilly relations with the Bush administration.

CBS News's popularity at the White House—never high to begin with—plunged further in the wake of Dan Rather's discredited '60 Minutes [Wednesday]' story on George Bush's [Air] National Guard service.

An incentive for making nice is the impending report from the two-member panel investigating CBS's use of now-infamous documents for the '60 Minutes' piece.

Heyward was 'working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,' our source says, 'and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.' CBS declined to comment.

More than likely, one of the most prominent topics at the alleged meeting was some CBS begging to let Dan Rather, who has been banned from the Bush White House, interview President Bush before the older Texan retires from the CBS News anchor desk.

Does anyone remember the Simpsons episode where the news anchor Kent Brockman mistakenly thinks giant ants from space are going to invade earth, so he begins his broadcast in front of a banner that says: "All hail our new ant overlords!"

In their hubris, CBS really thought they would have a president Kerry by now. Instead, much to their chagrin, they have to go kiss up to their ant overlords.

Grovel away you bastards!

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