So says Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, which nicely falls in line with my comments yesterday about the CBC—and how I described them as “the enemy”.
But Johnson is onto another thing: Get a load of this headline at CBSnews.com regarding the current uprising in Uzbekistan:
“U.S. Ally Fires On Its People”
As Charles Johnson wrote in his blog,
What the hell is wrong with CBS News? You’re not going to believe their headline on a story about the Islamist riots in Uzbekistan: U.S. Ally Fires On Its People. (Hat tip: Steven Den Beste.)
Because after all, that is the kind of thing that US allies do, isn’t it?
(Incidentally, there were 275 comments to his blog entry, which was only posted a few hours ago, at last check. Johnson was one of the lead bloggers in breaking the Dan Rather CBS News scam last year.)
The CBS story doesn’t even pretend to cower behind their tendentious headline. In a four-page story, they only allude to the U.S. in this way, by way of explanation:
Uzbekistan hosts a U.S. air base to support military operations in neighboring Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.
But of course the implication is that it’s all about being a U.S. ally—it’s a Bush thing. Their hate for Bush and America is transparent.
If only the state-run CBC division of the Liberal Party were as comparatively fair and balanced as “Rather Biased” CBS News. But the question in each case is still always: Whose side are they on? And the answer is always: Not ours. In the case of a state-run media, that’s an even more dangerous, more insidious situation.
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