Bozell Column: '60 Minutes,' Tool of the State?  The New York
Times published an unintentionally humorous headline on December
23:  “When ‘60 Minutes’ Checks Its Journalistic Skepticism at
the Door.” Times media columnist David Carr is suddenly stunned
that “60 Minutes” has aired a puff piece on a serious political
matter.          In his article, Carr didn’t breathe a word
about Steve Kroft’s long history of servile interviews with
Barack Obama, most recently in January when he threw softballs
at both Obama and Hillary Clinton at the president’s request.
Carr’s never written about Kroft.   Carr sees “60 Minutes” as a
"journalistic treasure" because it's a rabble-rousing leftist
outfit: “For more than four decades, the program has exposed CIA
abuses, rogue military contractors and hundreds of corporate
villains.” So he was upset about the December 15 “60 Minutes,”
which aired an interview with Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the
National Security Agency. He wrote “it was hard to watch the NSA
segment and not wo