I'm hoping Jeff Ballabon will be the rightwing Dan Rather. Remember when Dan Rather's poor factchecking over George W. Bush's National Guard service ended up elevating rightwing sites like Little Green Footballs, which had showed that some of the paperwork was fraudulent? (As if Bush had not dodged serving in Vietnam as a preamble to launching the next Vietnam.) Well, Ballabon is the rightwing Zionist who was lately named to be the senior vice president for communications at CBS and who has supported extremist settlers of the West Bank and who believes that the peace process is rightly a shell game because Palestinians are "not ready" to govern themselves. Maybe in another 60 years?
Jeff Blankfort speculates:
While Bob Simon's "60 Minutes"piece was a pleasant surprise, the appointment of Jeff Ballabon isn't and seems to be a way of placating CBS's Jewish chauvinist critics. It is likely that the relatively independent 60 Minutes did that program without the knowledge or approval of CBS's President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves who was born in 1948 and just happens to be the great nephew of Ben-Gurion. It was curious his name was not mentioned in the story.
