Alaskan politics has always been SO SO SO DIRTY.
And I blame GOP for not doing anything “significant” to address the situation in the past.
In fact, many of the Ds in Alaska are “conservative” who lost their faith in the fascist and statist structure of the AK Republican Party.
AK-GOP has always been a nepotistic organization, until Sarah Palin came along.
Never knew that. I thought until you posted that AK had cleaner politics just like the snow that falls up there. Sadly I am wrong. Surprised that the Dems are the conservatives up there, but then again, this year I have LEARNED A LOT in a short time.
So has CBS's politics, nationally and local.
2004: CBS ran a television "news" special hosted during the presidential campaign by Dan Rather, promulgating a canard that then young George W. Bush was AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s, displaying forged documents in a malicious effort to "prove" their point.
c. 1968: Walter Cronkite, CBS' avuncular news anchorman, falsely hinted that the US was losing the Viet Nam War after the Tet offensive, causing a breakdown of civilan support for the war effort.
1964: CBS "News" concocted an obviously fraudulent smear story, claiming that GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater was being celebrated for his achievement by neonazi groups in western Europe. The plain truth is that neonazis in Europe would not be lauding Goldwater; rather, as a man whose father was Jewish, Goldwater would be targeted for death by the Nazi racial laws.
It's not a legacy to be proud of. I'm sure some of you can come up with many more examples of CBS' on-air expressions of hatred against politicians and causes they wanted to see defeated.