CBS = completely biased stuff

In just ten minutes of listening to CBS radio this morning, I was surprised to see how much liberal media bias was on display. First, old timer Bob Schieffer was discussing what would be on Face The Nation this Sunday. He said that CBS was going to take a look at the Tea Parties to see who these people are and what they want. He spoke of the Tea Parties as some sort of curiosity, as if they had just sprung up in the last few weeks and had unknown views. His description of the Tea Party was dripping with disdain, but he was not nasty. One has to wonder where Schieffer and CBS have been for the last year and a half. The Tea Party has been on the national stage all that time and -- depending on the poll -- between one quarter and one half of all Americans say that they agree with the views of the Tea Party. This is a main stream movement, not a curiosity in any mind that does not see the world only in leftist terms.

Second, CBS News put on a piece about Sarah Palin's new fund raising campaign aimed at 20 vulnerable Democrats in the House. Suddenly, out of nowhere and out of context of the story, the reporter said that Palin still has on her web site items that "have already been proven to be lies" about Obamacare. These supposed proven lies were that federal funds would be used to pay for abortions and the existence of so-called death panels. This unwarranted and unrelated attack by CBS was truly surprising, not because CBS is anti-Palin, that is a given. Rather, I was surprised because CBS was just plain wrong. Federal funds are indeed being used to pay for abortions under Obamacare. Palin is not lying and is certainly not wrong. That does not stop CBS, however. The death panel issue is more complicated. The type of death panel that Palin discussed does indeed exist under Obamacare. There are federal panels set up to review treatments and determine if they are efficacious and cost effective. These panels will have the ability to cut certain types of treatments off from funding under approved insurance plans, thereby consigning those who rely on the treatments to death.

Third, CBS treated everyoone next to a major serving of liberal philosophy that is against the death penalty. they ran a story about the execution of a woman in Virginia last night. We heard about her mental insufficiencies -- she was close to being mentally challenged (although a court ruled that she was not and this was not mentioned). She was a grandmother we were told (although we were not told about the murder that she committed). Most important, we were not told that she was only executed after a long trial and many, many appeals to safeguard that she deserved the death penalty. No, all we got was a tug at the emotions in sympathy for this poor dumb granny. What about her victims?

I do not know why I bother to put CBS radion on in the morning. I guess if there were a true emergency, I would hear about it. Still, it annoys me that the never ending brainwashing attempt that is CBS still pretends to be fair.