CBS's Bill Plante on Friday downplayed graphic photos of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with severed body parts of suicide bombers as a "GOP distraction," insisting that Republicans were "somehow" trying to portray this (and other issues) as a failure of leadership.

Since the Los Angeles Times first reported the 2010 pictures, ABC has only offered one report on World News. CBS allowed a lone segment on the Evening News and a brief mention by Bill Plane on Friday's This Morning. He spun, "...Republicans keep pointing out several recent distractions: this incident, the troops posing with body parts in Afghanistan, and the big party that the General Services Administration threw itself in Las Vegas."