CBS Quickly Covers GOP Congressman's Skinny-Dipping; Dallied On Weiner

NewsBusters.org ^ | August 20, 2012 | Matthew Balan

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

Mere hours after Politico reported on Republican Congressman Eric Yoder's admitted skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee in Israel, CBS highlighted the story on its Monday morning newscast. By contrast, the network was slow to report on former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner's lewd photo scandal in 2011. On June 1 of that year, ABC and NBC's morning shows reported on the "underwear uproar," while CBS's Early Show punted on the story.

Funny this 'analysis' should come up *now*, eh? Almost as if *not enough attention* was paid to this skinny-dipping story. And see, the two events were equally bad and significant. Weiner for Mayor!!!

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Oh, for Pete’s sake. it is no big deal, other than the fact that they were supposed to be in Israel on government business.

It was mixed company and they were there on a trip paid for by a lobbying group.

But if a bunch of adults want to do something late at night after they've been drinking in another country, whatever, my bigger problem is that it just highlights the perks that Congress critters get and how they are all but bribed with these kinds of paid vacations, or "fact-finding missions" as they like to call them.

That's the real story - the critters in Congress take a lot of trips paid for by lobbying groups, and they pretend like they are "fact-finding".