ratherbiased.com has discovered that CBS News is recruiting anti-war bloggers to hype a 60 Minutes II show on American military deserters.

The owner of Nonviolence.org, Martin Kelley, said he got an interesting phone call yesterday from a CBS News publicist for—you guessed it—Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes Wednesday, the same program that carried the infamous bogus memos.

“Yesterday I got a call from a publicist for CBS News’s 60 Minutes. They’re running a story tonight on ‘Deserters,’ U.S. military personnel who have fled to Canada rather than serve in Iraq. She was requesting that I talk up the program on Nonviolence. In nine years of publishing the peace site, I can’t remember ever getting a call from a publicist before. I’ve talked to reporters from major news networks and papers, and I’ve talked a booking agent or two to arranging appearances on radio shows, but never a publicist.”

UPDATE at 12/8/04 2:37:53 pm:

Other anti-war blogs that link to the same anti-war CBS story: No Capital, Daily War News, and bankrupt artist.