What Was CBS Thinking?

Usually we do not watch CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday evening.  Tonight we did, and I wish that we had not.  I'm pissed, really, really pissed.  Enough to forsake my normal forgiving tendencies and go off the deep end.

They has a section about Joe Dresnok.  Dresnok, to quote CBS:

... as a soldier serving on the DMZ between North and South Korea, Dresnok did the unthinkable: in 1962, he ran through a minefield and defected into North Korea, where his unthinkable act led to an unimaginable life.

60 Minutes spent a third of their show about this despicable deserter.  In my opinion, he has committed treason many times over.  Read the account.  It's full of examples.  And today, this smug SOB walks the streets of North Korea and lives better than the North Koreans.

Dresnok told his story to two British film makers, and really, I have no problem with them.  They film documentaries, and this was a story they thought needed needed documenting.  But CBS did not need to make its own documentary.  It just gripes my ass that they showed it.  He is old, sick, and defiant.  Keep him off my screen.

This is one time I would (almost) send Special Forces into North Korea and either capture him or kill him.  Ideally, he should be brought back to the US, tried for treason, and sent to Guantanamo.

Marrianna, forgiving soul that she is, says let North Korea have him.  I say no, he doesn't deserve to be free.  Of course, I'm the one who, when another deserter to North Korea, Jenkins, returned to the US to visit and was allowed to return to Japan, would have grabbed him, tried him, and put him in prison for the rest of his miserable, low-living life.  No mercy for deserters.

As the title says, what was CBS thinking?  Why was it important enough to put this story on their prime time news magazine, 60 Minutes?  Answer:  it wasn't.  CBS has no business telling this story, this evening or any evening.  It's a non-story, at least as far as I am concerned.  And at a time when our troops are dying, to publicize this miserable excuse for humanity is unacceptable.

There, I got that off my chest.  I feel better.