Sometimes The Level of Media Bias and Stupidity Even Shocks Me

I heard a report this morning on CBS about the Canadian election yesterday.  The Liberal Party regained power after ten years of rule under the Conservatives.  The New Democrats came in a distant third.  If you listened only to CBS, however, you would think that the reason why those results happened is because outgoing prime minister Harper wanted a law that would have required Moslem women taking the oath of citizenship not to wear headscarves for that ceremony.  The CBS report quoted the new prime minister Trudeau saying a line about diversity and explained that the head scarves were a big issue.

Now here are the actual facts.  The most important reason by far for the Canadian results is that Canada is in the middle of a recession.  The Canadian economy has been faltering as the price of oil and other natural resources fell on world markets.  As the economy has been shrinking, the poll numbers for the Conservatives went down with it.  It has been pretty clear for over a year that the Harper government was in deep trouble.  Headscarves and Moslems had nothing to do with it.

Is it possible that CBS actually believes this stuff?  I hope not.  Somehow, I would rather have the news come from a bunch of dishonest lefties who want to push their agenda than to think that our media is so brain dead that they cannot tell political narrative from reality.