Ken Starr says that CBS News edited an interview that aired Monday night, to completely change the meaning of his statements and make it seem like he was responding to a question about the “nuclear option” to break the filibuster, when he was making an entirely different point.

I know, it’s really hard to believe that CBS News (where have you gone, Ed Murrow?) would conduct a blatantly obvious attempt to mislead the American public, and I’m just as shocked about it as all of you. Maybe more.

Power Line has this quote from an email sent by Starr to CBS News :

I sat on Saturday with Gloria Borger for 20 minutes approximately, had a wide ranging, on-camera discussion. In the piece that I have now seen, and which I gather has been lavishly quoted, CBS employed two snippets. The ‘radical departure from our history’ snippet was specifically addressed to the practice of invoking judicial philosophy as a grounds for voting against a qualified nominee of integrity and experience. I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong. I contrasted the current practice and that employed viciously against your father with what occurred during Ruth Ginsburg’s nomination process as numerous Republicans voted, rightly, to confirm a former ACLU staff worker. They disagreed with her positions as a lawyer but they voted — again rightly — to confirm her.

(Hat tip: LGF readers.)