CBS again guilty of liberal media bias
Yesterday, we covered Keith Olbermann’s nonsensical Monday night rant, where he lashed out at Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others. Not only did he go on about how there is no liberal media bias, but he also went on to say “comparing them to disease gives disease a bad name.”
Another night and another Olbermann tirade (anyone else think he should have kept that Sportscenter job?). Last night he lashed out at Joe Lieberman calling him an embarrassment and suggesting Lieberman should resign over his position on the proposed health care bill.
Tonight, CBS showed they are clearly on the media-bias bandwagon in attacking Joe Lieberman for simply doing his job.
Newsbusters breaks down the latest rants:
A night after MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann demanded Senator Joe Lieberman “just resign already” as he shrieked “you are embarrassing humanity!”, CBS joined in targeting Connecticut’s “independent Democrat” for daring to oppose liberals on health care. “He holds the 60th vote needed to get the health care reform bill passed in the Senate,” anchor Katie Couric intoned, “and Nancy Cordes tells us supporters of reform are angry and confused about Lieberman’s position.”
Cordes soon expanded the exasperation to include “Democratic Senators Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson” who “successfully blocked the public option even though the other 55 Democrats support it. Nelson is still holding out for stricter anti-abortion language, leading some liberals to complain their agenda is being hijacked by a few.” She demanded of Lieberman: “Does it trouble you that you’re going against an overwhelming majority of your caucus?” (Hard to imagine a CBS reporter ever scolding a more liberal Republican for defying the party’s conservative majority.)
A frustrated Cordes concluded: “So this small group of four or so Senators has managed successfully to impose their will on the other 530 members of Congress because the changes that they’re demanding to the Senate bill will likely have to be made to the House bill, too.”
In a court of law, they often use the “reasonable person” test. Would a “reasonable person” reach a certain conclusion? Can any reasonable person read or watch the CBS and MSNBC reports of the last three days and honestly claim that these reporters’ liberal bias is not only clouding their ability to be unbiased, but is showing in their venomous reports?