Posted on 04/06/2022 6:10:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
If anyone had any doubt that our "objective" television news operations are deeply partisan and nearly unanimous Biden-voter caucuses, observe the revulsion and disgust spilling out into public view when one of them hires a Republican to offer the Other Party's Viewpoint on their airwaves.
CBS News decided to hire former Republican congressman (and Trump Chief of Staff) Mick Mulvaney, and then liberal Washington Post media reporter Jeremy Barr was handed internal recordings of staff "turmoil" over this supposed outrage.
Barr "obtained" a recording of a staff meeting led by CBS News co-President Neeraj Khemlani. Surely, the staffer recording this meeting was outraged that Khemlani said, "getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms."
Anonymous CBS News Democrats were alarmed "the network was jeopardizing its long history of journalistic excellence." And you thought Dan Rather already did that.
"I know everyone I talked to today was embarrassed about the hiring," said a CBS News employee who "spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment." This is the most ridiculous use of anonymous sourcing -- to protect liberals while they publicly campaign against their bosses.
Some protesting CBS employees were not anonymous. Stephen Colbert -- who makes $16 million a year for his late-night Democratic talk show that pretends to be "comedy" -- raucously compared Mulvaney to the Nazi goon whose face melted at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Colbert and others noted that Mulvaney might not be the best pundit since he insisted Donald Trump would "concede gracefully" if he lost in 2020 and "participate in a peaceful transition of power." That turned out to be dreadfully wrong, but many of us believed that would be true. Trump is just as embarrassing for refusing to concede as ... well, Dan Rather.
Barr noted that CBS staffers were less upset when the network hired former Trump adviser H.R. McMaster -- naturally, since McMaster turned on Trump, which is always seen as the first sign of sanity at CBS.
Then came Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan, who hates these feints at fairness and balance. Her grumbling came under a headline about how the search for "access" takes the media to "dangerous places when one side of the aisle is turning against democracy."
Sullivan touted radical journalism professor Jay Rosen, who proclaims, "We have a two-party system and one of the two is anti-democratic." Rosen also painted George W. Bush as a press-"decertifying" tyrant.
Sullivan hates the liberals "fearfully reacting to bad-faith criticism from the right," as if conservatives couldn't possibly make a good-faith argument about media bias. She insisted the problem with CBS is, "they want to look fair, even if that performative fairness does American citizens real harm." So, allowing Mulvaney to speak on CBS somehow causes "real harm."
It's ridiculous that these scolds who throw thunderbolts under the motto that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" can so shamelessly proclaim that the Republican Party is too dangerous to be granted a platform on television news networks. Jeff Bezos and the Post should march under the banner "Democracy Requires Democratic Domination of All Branches of Government."
This cacophonous caucus of commissars don't sound like small "d" democrats, or like liberals, as the dictionary defines it, as "willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own." They are the illiberal media, who publicly advocate for the suppression of conservative and Republican advocacy in the public square. So, we resolve to speak out louder and call out their censorious arrogance.
We know who are the real fascists. They expose themselves every day.
Who cares.
Their ratings and demographics suck.
Note to affiliates: You lot, though, need your heads examined.
They sure do.
Over a DU they’re screaming bloody murder and boycotting CBS. LOL.
Nobody will watch SeeBS even if they hire every RINO in the world....
When will the Progs start wearing armbands? The face mask was a good way to identify neo-fascists but it is going away. We need them to keep identify themselves.
CBS, the network of NorDUH O’Donnell and Gayle Oprah King.
If you caught NorDUH’s kiss up interview with Brandon’s sister this weekend you would know for sure they are simply leftist activists supporting the cause.
Mr Graham manages to decry media bias while carrying forward several of their prevarications. Well done.
These people are evil.
DNCBS is upset both sides might be covered rather than covered up.
The "Death's Head Democrats".
“Barr “obtained” a recording of a staff meeting led by CBS News co-President Neeraj Khemlani.”
What’s with American companies hiring Indian CEOs? Is it because people in India know all about how to do things? Why is that expertise not evident in the country of India? There are absolutely no native born Americans who can manage anymore? Someone wants to showcase their love of diversity and/or abide by Federal mandates on affirmative action hiring?
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Nobody will watch SeeBS even if they hire every RINO in the world....
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You’re absolutely right. Disingenuous attempts to appear balanced won’t do anything for CBS’s ratings. They aren’t going to attract a broader audience by hiring one conservative and in fact may run the risk of actually losing some liberal viewers.
This is the network that has Norah O’Donnell as the nightly news anchor. For whatever reason, women do not excel when placed in the network anchor chairs. They’ve been trying it for decades, and it has never succeeded.
SeeBS made their red bed, now they must lie in it.
The Democrats at CBS can’t have Republicans working alongside them because the Republicans will dime out the illegal political contributions-in-kind that the Propaganda Media has been getting away with for decades.
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