Hearkening back to my dual stories about the state-run CBC and liberalvision CTV passing off the “expert” Steven Staples as, oh, just another expert on wars and other such affairs, there’s this similar story regarding CBS (…which is one of many such stories you can dig up every day. Every day.)
This is a blog entry from the fantastic NewsBusters.org blog:
CBS Uses Democrat Helpers To Explain How Democrats Now ‘Get Religion’
By Tim Graham | July 18, 2007 – 06:34 ET
Monday’s Early Show on CBS picked up on Time magazine’s promotional cover story “How The Democrats Got Religion.” Reporter Jeff Glor used two guides to explore how the Democrats would “level the praying field,” but didn’t exactly tell viewers that these guides were involved in the drive to help the Democrats. The first expert was Time magazine’s Amy Sullivan, who wrote a “God Gap” essay for the magazine. CBS didn’t explain she was an aide to then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and during her stint with the liberal magazine The Washington Monthly, she advised the Democrats on how to “get religion” in the last presidential election cycle, to no avail.
The other expert was so-called “conservative evangelical” Rev. Joel Hunter, a man eager enough to help the Democrats that he was selected by the people at the left-wing magazine Sojourners to ask Hillary Clinton a question at the CNN/Sojourners Democrat debate (clips of that event were sprinkled throughout the CBS story.) He asked Hillary Clinton a seemingly pro-life question that enabled her to proclaim that she’s always been for abortion being very rare. Rev. Hunter’s also written a book titled Right Wing, Wrong Bird: Why The Tactics of the Religious Right Won’t Work with Most Conservative Christians. (Since that doesn’t sound like he can claim the label “conservative,” it will be republished next year with the title A New Kind of Conservative. As in the Hillary-helping kind?)
CBS isn’t telling viewers that when it spots a favorable political trend for liberals, it’s using people with a rooting interest in that trend—and whose certainty that this trend will pan out is perhaps a little colored by their involvement. Here’s Justin McCarthy’s transcript of the CBS story:
Also see my blog entry:
CTV viewers warned: joining us now is David Frum—“a small-c conservative”
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