CBS Sidesteps Questions About Editing Of McCain Interview

CBS is under attack because the network mysteriously edited out of an interview with John McCain a passage where McCain flubbed the timeline of the Anbar Awakening and the surge, a serious foreign policy gaffe at a sensitive moment for the Arizona Senator. The flubbed-timeline quote never aired. It's only available in a transcript on CBS' Web site. Here's what a CBS spokesperson is sending reporters who ask for an explanation: "As all news organizations do with extended interviews, last night's Obama and McCain interviews were edited to fit the available time and to give viewers a fair expression of the candidates' major differences. The full transcript and video were and still are available at cbsnews.com"