In a ten-second promo at the end of Friday's
NBC Nightly News
, an announcer excitedly promised, “Sunday: Joe Wilson, the man at the center of the CIA leak scandal and NBC's got him!” Viewers then saw a short clip of Wilson as he sat across from Campbell Brown: “The White House trained their guns on me.” Back to the announcer with matching text on screen: “The
Dateline
interview: Sunday 7, 6 Central.” CBS ran its plug for
60 Minutes
inside a
CBS Evening News
story in which John Roberts asserted: "The case started with the outing of a CIA operative, but [prosecutor Peter] Fitzgerald found no crime in that. It didn't sit well with Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson. In an exclusive interview for Sunday's
60 Minutes
, he told Ed Bradley:" CBS played a soundbite of Wilson accusing Karl Rove despite Rove's vindication so far: "After Mr. Rove said about my wife, 'She's fair game,' I would like to see him frog-marched out of the White House. Whether it's in handcuffs or not is immaterial. If it was not illegal, it was certainly, it seems to me, a dubious ethical comportment. And I think we deserve better from our senior public servants."
Video of NBC's promo in Real or Windows Media
The 60 Minutes Web page , as of Friday evening, has nothing on the “exclusive” Wilson interview and MSNBC.com's page for Dateline is also bereft of any mention of their interview, which is either a conflicting “exclusive,” or a re-run of an earlier interview aired to promote his 2004 book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity . The Dateline page does feature a posting , timed and dated 1:41pm EDT Friday, of a chapter of Wilson's book.
