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CBS: Corrupt, Biased Sunday
Townhall.com ^ | September 13, 2017 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 09/13/2017 4:55:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

For anyone who doubts the daily double standard of the news media, just look up CBS show episodes from Sunday, Sept. 10. Up first, "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley softly and sweetly served one puffball after another to Hillary Clinton for her book-tour kickoff. That evening, anchor Charlie Rose harshly lectured President Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, on "60 Minutes."

Days in advance, CBS rushed out clips of Rose lecturing Bannon on his dissent from Catholic bishops regarding illegal aliens who entered the country as children. Rose said: "Can I remind you, a good Catholic, that Cardinal Dolan is opposed to what's happened with DACA. Cardinal Dolan!"

If anyone can remember CBS shaming anyone on the left with the pro-life worldviews of Cardinal Dolan -- especially those "good Catholics" like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi or former Vice President Joe Biden -- then someone is delusional. It has never happened.

Rose lectured Bannon on Trump's supposed failure to condemn white supremacists after the events in Charlottesville. In fact, the president did condemn bigotry and hatred that Saturday, but liberals mentally censored the condemnation when he awkwardly added that there was hatred "on all sides."

The anchorman introduced that phony "many people say" device. He insisted: "I tell you where many people suggest it should have gone. It should have gone in terms of denouncing specifically, from the very beginning, Neo-Nazis and white supremacists and people of that political view. ... And you didn't at first instinct. In fact, you seemed to be doubling down in terms of a moral equivalency."

If anyone can take tough questions, it's a brawler like Steve Bannon. And if anyone can't handle tough questions, it's Hillary "Safe Space" Clinton. For all her supposed brilliance and tough-as-nails mythology, Clinton detests being challenged. She wants every interview to feel like an award ceremony. Three years ago, with her last book tour, Rose began a PBS "interview" with her by quoting a pro-Hillary poem by Maya Angelou.

Rose's idea of a tough question was asking Clinton: "Where did you find the strength at these difficult moments in your personal life? Whether it's losing an election -- or whatever it might be. Was it people? Was it an inspiration from religion? Was it something else that gave you the courage to keep moving ahead?"

To sum it up, he was asking, "Why are you so courageous and amazing and religious?"

Pauley picked up that baton on Sept. 10. She announced her mind meld regarding the candidate losing, saying, "Hillary Clinton was supposed to make history as the first woman president of the United States." That is precisely how a Clinton supporter would see it. A detractor would celebrate the nation dodging a bullet.

Pauley tenderly asked questions like "How are you?" and "Can we talk about Election Day?" Clinton blamed her defeat on a heavy dose of "sexism and misogyny" and blamed Trump for exploiting "a nostalgia that would give hope, comfort, settle grievances, for millions of people who were upset about gains that were made by others."

Pauley facilitated: "What you're saying is millions of white people." Clinton agreed. "Millions of white people, yeah," she said. Pauley moved on. "And then there were the Russians," she said.

The "roughest" patch came when Pauley intoned, "But there were serious self-inflicted wounds, too." She vaguely suggested it was time for Clinton to talk about the emails. Then, she lamented that Clinton's excuses for her decisions with emails "never satisfied critics or the press."

The press won't even challenge Clinton on the ludicrous idea that the press heavily favored Donald Trump in 2016. No one with eyes or ears should buy that nonsense.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; hillaryrottenclinton; media; stephenbannon

1 posted on 09/13/2017 4:55:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 09/13/2017 5:03:20 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Kaslin

The good thing is the witch said she is Not Going Anywhere. Great news for all of us wishing more hell on the Dems. Keep it up Hillary


3 posted on 09/13/2017 5:07:40 AM PDT by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: Diogenesis

That is an awesome SeeBS gif !!!


4 posted on 09/13/2017 5:08:19 AM PDT by Enchante
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To: Kaslin

The old media empire; voice of the libturd DNC and enemy #1 of free Ameican citizens.


5 posted on 09/13/2017 5:09:38 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Kaslin
Rose said: "Can I remind you, a good Catholic, that Cardinal Dolan is opposed to what's happened with DACA. Cardinal Dolan!"

I just love how libs will beat conservatives over the head with religion when it suits their purpose, then scream bloody murder over public prayer or a creche display.

6 posted on 09/13/2017 5:30:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Kaslin

Did they even mention the 9/11 at all?


7 posted on 09/13/2017 5:30:58 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Rummyfan

They are hypocrites, that is why they do it.


8 posted on 09/13/2017 5:31:26 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t know that dinosaurs could talk.


9 posted on 09/13/2017 5:33:41 AM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: Kaslin

By now every one , both leftist and conservatives should surely recognize the alphabet networks are on a combined effort to take down our president .

We must stand together in support of DJT and his policies to MAGA . In the upcoming midterm elections we must give him the candidates he needs to get his policies through the house and senate and rid the party of it’s RINO’s .


10 posted on 09/13/2017 6:03:58 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party :-()
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The thing that gets me is “Why do Republicans or conservatives even bother to show up on shows like this?”

Yes, I know that many of them can defend themselves - but at the same time, why bother? You’re not gonna get a fair hearing.

The next time these shows call, just politely decline the invite.


11 posted on 09/13/2017 8:13:33 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Diogenesis

In Soviet America the TV watches you!


12 posted on 09/13/2017 10:07:48 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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