For Your Viewing Pleasure
Well, maybe not that pleasurable, but important nonetheless.

• 60 Minutes - Wednesday: "Correspondent Dan Rather talks exclusively to former Texas House Speaker and Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, a Democrat, about the role Barnes says he played in getting President George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard -- and why he now regrets it." This is gonna be big.
  
  Josh Marshall writes: CBS has now gone live with its online promo for the Ben Barnes interview that is running tomorrow evening. But, as I noted earlier, that's not what the headline will be after the segment runs. The big news won't be how Bush got into the Guard but how he blew off his duties once he got there. Again, new documents -- stuff that is clear and
  straightforward and apparently puts beyond any debate or doubt that the now-President blew off the duties that he said, as recently as this year, that he fulfilled.
  
  
• If you've got the Discovery Times channel (a coming together of Discovery and the New York Times), definitely check out Deadline Iraq, a documentary originally aired by Canada's CBC. It interviews about a dozen journalists about their experiences as embedded reporters during the war. It runs the gamut of "Wow, those missles were close!" to "I've lost a part of my soul." (The video that's included on the CBC site shows more of the former.) It's most illuminating when focusing on the effect of the war on Iraqi civilians, which is heartbreaking to watch. It looks like it's next aired on the 12th. Catch it if you can--I highly recommend it.