The internal investigation into the matter of the biased liberal CBS News and Dan Rather’s phoney biased 60 Minutes II story is finally out.
The predictable result is that more heads will roll to make it look like the liberal media really intends to curb their biased reporting. Dan Rather has already announced he’s quitting. He will be replaced by another liberal, but maybe one better at hiding his anti-conservative, anti-bush bias than Rather was.
Liberals will view all this rolling of heads as confirmation that they’re fair and balanced.
This all evolved because some bloggers (notably Little Green Footballs and Powerline) uncovered an outright lie being perpetrated by liberal Dan Rather and his liberal team at liberal CBS News and liberal 60 Minutes II.
Rather and CBS denied it for weeks before finally conceding that their phoney story about President Bush’s National Guard service was based on, well, something involving Karl Rove, and Halliburton I’m pretty sure. And naturally their further investigation proved—fer sure!—that bloggers were a bunch of right-wing idiots who wear pajamas.
Now the producer of that report, Mary Mapes is out of a job until some other liberal company hires her. Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy are all out. No doubt they’ll land at another network (not likely Fox News Channel). Perhaps the state-run CBC or the other two liberal networks in Canada, CTV or Global! Then they can help hammer Stephen Harper and the other conservatives and help the other media ensure he’s never elected, in favor of liberals.
“The combination of a new 60 Minutes Wednesday management team, great deference given to a highly respected producer and the network’s news anchor, competitive pressures, and a zealous belief in the truth of the segment seem to have led many to disregard some fundamental journalistic principles,” the report said.
“A zealous belief”. In other words, they really, really, wanted it to be true, even though they were fully aware that they didn’t know it was true. But they went ahead with it anyway, these fair and balanced reporters. They knew it would make Dan Rather happy, since he’s anti-Bush, and their reverence for him made them do it. That’s professional. Disregarding “journalistic principles”? You don’t say.
The liberal left also really, really believes that the Kyoto Accord will cure global warning and that global warming is caused solely by humans—mostly big bad American ones. In Canada they believe that Stephen Harper had a “hidden agenda” when in fact it was their nanny Paul Martin who did. Twits.
“This alleged confirmation by Major General Hodges started to march 60 Minutes Wednesday into dangerous and ultimately unsustainable territory: the notion that since the content of the documents was felt to be true, demonstrating the authenticity of the documents became less important.”
This demonstrates to me that when the media believes something, and it falls in line with their liberal view of the world, no matter how an opposing side may view it, they will forgo any further investigation.
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