Push to boycott Beijing Olympics makes strange bedfellows

Human rights advocates have been trying to get Western governments to boycott the winter games in Beijing for months. Now their campaign is getting support from an unexpected corner: American conservatives. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports.

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