This sent chills up my spine -- little weeds of fascism sprouting up. I went to the station's website just now to see if they had anything to say about it. Thankfully, this is up now:

CBS has granted WHNT permission to re-air "The Prosecution of Don Siegelman" again tonight (Monday) during NewsChannel 19 at 6:00.

Tonight on NewsChannel 19 at 6:00, you'll see an abbreviated newscast (news, weather and a shortened sportscast) and then, the entire 13-minute 60 Minutes piece will re-air.

We thank CBS for their help in this matter. We also thank CBS for allowing us to re-air the piece last night (Sunday) at 10pm.

WHNT experienced technical problems last night at 6pm with our receiver satellite, which pulls in CBS programming. We regret that this happened at a very inopportune time. Please accept our apology and please know it was not intentional.

Things that make you go hmmmmm........

"When they own the information, they can bend it all they want."

And what is the "Iron Triangle"? It's a region of gross law enforcement corruption encompassing Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. It has been an open secret for years that prosecutors and judges, cops and guards in that region are the most vilely corrupt in the entire nation. That's why that one fellow was so sure "[his] girls" would "take care of him." Those bastards can take down anyone for anything. It's a real cesspool that needs to get drained right quick, and I hope and pray that the Siegelman case does the job.

More people are aware of this because of the "censorship" flap than ever would have watched the story on 60 minutes to begin with.

"We just happened to have this 'technical problem' right when the news story started and solved it right after the story was over. Very shady. The FCC should pull their license. I find fascist censorship much more offensive than a butt on NYPD Blue or an 'equipment malfunction' at the Super Bowl.

Politics at their worst in every instance-- the original election fraud that forced Seligman out of office (significantly a topic NOT included in the CBS story); the phony prosecution that's kept the governor out of reach of the media ever since (you can get an interview with Charles Manson but not the former governor of Alabama?); and then the oh-so-convenient "transmitter" problem.

I'd glad the station is doing the right thing now, but I wonder if anyone at the station gave the word to cut the feed, or if a rabid partisan just took it upon himself to disrupt transmission because, like Ollie North, he felt he was serving a higher good. Higher than, you know, the truth.

Wow and I thought we lived in a Democracy.

This clumsy attempt at censorship will attract more attention than the story they tried to suppress would have even gotten.

...The evil twits at that TV station should have shown it. They feared worse than CBS delivered. Obviously, there is more to come out, and these corrupt fatcats have more to answer for. And CBS could have found more, and done a better job.

What are you so afraid of, corrupt fatcats? Give us a hint. Run like hell.

Yep, and by censoring this story they've turned into a story on its own and made it 100 times more important. Nice going, hayseeds.

After watching the video, I have one question: why in HELL weren't Rove and the others who were subpoenaed to testify before Congress about this case and refused charged with contempt of Congress?????

Where the 'government' such as it is is usually the biggest criminals with the nicest suits and the most guns. So this sort of thing looks very familiar. America is becoming an 'emerging nation' in a narrow sense of the word and how it applies to the power that the government imposes on an ever more disconnected and apathetic populace.

I've also lived in '2nd world' nations too, and they are looking better and better. Manageable levels of freedom, stable governments, a loyal opposition, a nominally free press, a solid standard of living in the middle of the pack, relatively little racial and ethnic frictions. It's time to learn some Spanish or Portuguese.

I won't be happy until Rove is behind bars.

... En las interiores de estos paises, hay unos Gringos misteriosos y sus esposas. Yo mismo a estas personas misteriosos conosco. Estes personas ya estan en muchos paises. Y ya quieren estas personas la amor de los Gran Gringos de Washington.

Paises pequenos no pueden defender a los Neoconos Republicanos Ricos. ?Donde va Jorge W. Bush y su esposa en 2009?

Not sure how to complain to the FCC about censorship, but here's the general complaint link

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html

If anyone has better ideas, please pass them along.

Bush, Rove, Cheney, Ken Ley and their buddies in the energy industry created a phony energy crisis in CA and other western states a few years back. The "crisis" was a major factor in the recall of our sitting Democratic Governor, Gray Davis. We ended up with a Republican action hero as a replacement. I wonder how many other Democrats they've managed to unfairly force from office with their illegal tactics. I know they are currently attacking Dennis Kucinich, trying to unseat him from congress.

Did anyone notice that the cbs news promo for 60 minutes was for the honeybee story, and not the Siegelman story. I thought that was odd, almost as though they didn't want to promote it!

It's time the FCC investigated this matter and if egregious behaviour is found to lift their broadcasting licence.

It really was an equipment failure with colossally bad timing. For some, no amount of explanation will ever be enough to satisfy. But for what it's worth, Denise Vickers the News Director at the station, wrote a detailed account of what happened, what the station did in response, and what viewers have been saying about it in her blog:

http://www.whnt.com/Global/Link.asp?L=295554

Choose to believe or not. But at least take a look.