[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS REALLY loves The Post. The journalists at CBS This Morning have now devoted 20 minutes and 48 seconds over the last month to promoting the Vietnam-era film about The Washington Post’s efforts to publish the Pentagon Papers. Unsurprisingly, the hosts at CBS really enjoy a movie that touts “non-partisan” reporters as “heroes” for exposing a Republican president. On Wednesday, This Morning co-hosts talked to Matthew Rhys, the actor who plays Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg leaked classified data. In later life, he called for the impeachment of George W. Bush and now rails against the “unbalanced” Donald Trump. Yet, there was no hint that this man was in any way controversial. Rhys gushed, “He was a pioneer in his time in whistle blowing if you will and had such clarity of intention about the wrongdoing this war was doing, not just to the United States, but to the country of Vietnam as well.”
