Another Whopper Lie from CBS News

The latest story from CBS is one in which the dishonesty is on par with Dan Rather's forged document story. Earlier this week on CBS News, Gloria Borger presented a story about the GOP plans to pursue the "nuclear option" (read: constitutional option) and interviewed Ken Starr in a 20-minute sit down conversation. Ken Starr, Dean of Pepperdine Law School, was once an enemy of the left for prosecuting Bill Clinton in the Whitewater investigation. But after the CBS report this week, he has been praised by many Dems and members of the MSM for "speaking the truth about not wanting to end judicial filibusters."

Borger's interview (go to this CBS page for the video link) played a snippet in which Starr said that eliminating the judicial filibuster that Democrats have been using to block judges would be a "radical, radical departure from our history and our traditions..."

It is a complete lie. Rush Limbaugh received an email from Ken Starr today in which Starr said that he was very clear that he was talking to Gloria Borger about judicial philosophy - NOT ending the filibuster. He wrote to Limbaugh that he told Borger that under the Clinton Administration, the GOP disagreed with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's philosophy, but they allowed the Senate to vote her in because Clinton just won a mandate from his election victory.

Ken Starr says that CBS played only a few seconds of the interview and completely falsified his meaning. According to Starr, he has requested the full transcript of the interview and CBS refused to release it. Another lie - another whitewash from CBS. This time from Gloria Borger in a sad attempt to portray a prominent figure as an opponent of ending judicial filibusters.

*Update*
According to Rush Limbaugh's website, here is part of the email from Ken Starr:

"I have now seen the CBS report. Attached is an exchange with Steve Engle, who alerted me earlier today to the other dimensions of the wild misconstruction of what I said in the Gloria Borger interview. Here's a brief background. I sat on Saturday with Gloria Borger for 20 minutes approximately, had a wide ranging, on-camera discussion. In the piece that I have now seen, and which I gather has been lavishly quoted, CBS employed two snippets. The 'radical departure from our history' snippet was specifically addressed to the practice of invoking judicial philosophy as a grounds for voting against a qualified nominee of integrity and experience. I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong..."

Why anyone would ever do another CBS interview is beyond me. It really should be renamed See B.S.

Correction: Rduke commented that Ken Starr did not actually prosecute Clinton; he merely led the investigation. Thanks for catching the misstatement.