CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Suddenly Skips Accepting Award at CPAC

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CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has distinguished herself by reporting on the "Fast & Furious" gunwalking scandal in the Obama Justice Department. The conservative media watchdog group Accuracy in Media awarded her their Reid Irvine Award for investigative reporting at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday -- only Attkisson failed to appear. Instead, Michael Calderone at The Huffington Post wrote CBS Washington bureau chief Christopher Isham accepted the award in Atkisson's honor and said that the network "is very proud of Sharyl's groundbreaking reporting."

Attkisson is the first reporter from a non-conservative media organization to receive AIM's award. In response to the honor, a CBS News spokesperson said, "CBS News journalists are regularly honored by a broad spectrum of organizations for their outstanding original reporting." But liberals were outraged at Attkisson's apparent intention to accept the award in person, that it would glorify AIM and conservatives. Former CBS News man Ed Fouhy accused Attkisson of being a "pawn" before the award was presented.

This is not the liberal position when, say, journalists accept awards from their "progressive" activist groups like the "Maggie Awards" handed out by Planned Parenthood (see Rachel Maddow accept). Or see Barbara Walters accept a GLAAD Media Award in 2008, according to Reuters:

Television journalist Barbara Walters was honored by the gay media watchdog group GLAAD on Monday for her reporting on transgender children and she said the award was among the most important she had even received.

"You can forget all the Emmys," Walters said in accepting the award for television newsmagazine journalism at the 19th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards. "This means more to me."

[Scutter]

I don’t blame her. It will just make her a pariah, and will at a minimum immensely complicate her ability to get her job done, turn the workplace full of libtards into a hostile environment, and possibly even result in her eventual dismissal. CPAC must have its head up its collective butt to have tried to do this in the first place. There are so few journalists that actually take an honest look at Obozo and his legion of clowns - why make their life harder?

[Bullish]

There are so few NO journalists that actually take an honest look at Obozo and his legion of clowns ....

More true.

[Ronin]

More likely she was ordered to stay away, but the result is the same.

[JRandomFreeper]

It will just make her a pariah, and will at a minimum immensely complicate her ability to get her job done, turn the workplace full of libtards into a hostile environment, and possibly even result in her eventual dismissal.

Cry me a river. How about locating some testicular fortitude, manning up and calling a spade a spade?

I'm tired of the cowardly go-along-to-get-along bullshit.

What you are advocating HASN'T WORKED in decades.

Take it to 'em, or go home.

/johnny

[oyez]

Atkisson is probably busy going under retraining and reassignment.

[LibLieSlayer]

She was told to chill or become a waitress.

LLS

[Fresh Wind]

Let’s see. Keep my job and shut up or get an award and be blackballed. Hard choice.

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[USS Alaska]

Her co-workers probably don't talk to her now, she is just trying to appease them to prevent them from keying her car.

Oh, those tolerant liberals, what will they do next?

[Common Sense 101]

“But liberals were outraged at Attkisson’s apparent intention to accept the award in person, that it would glorify AIM and conservatives. Former CBS News man Ed Fouhy accused Attkisson of being a “pawn” before the award was presented.”

This reaction, from the very same nimrod “journalists” that laugh in the face of anyone who states they are overwhelmingly biased in favor of the socialist demonrats.

[OddLane]

BTTT.

[Scutter]

How exactly is giving some reporter an award “taking it to ‘em”?

[central_va]

The MSM are a bunch of cowards. She should have accepted the award. She is another classless pressititute.