Yup. The liberal media told me so.
Speaking of liberal media bias, and you know you wanna if you’re not liberal, our friends at Media Research Center picked up another hot one from the risible bunch down at CBS News from last night’s Katie Couric comedy hour (or what they call “news”). Couric, you’ll remember, is the one whom I always remind you makes you dumber the more you listen to her. (Of course that’s true of our state-run CBC tenfold.)
Media Research Center points to an article in Investor’s Daily, following on the heels of MRC’s own seemingly daily list of Katie Couric Bush-hating biases.
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 10/18/2006
Media Bias: CBS News broadcasts a free campaign ad for the Democrats, fueling the leftist conspiracy theory that oil companies are deliberately cutting prices to help elect Republicans on Nov. 7.
We hoped CBS learned its lesson after the Dan Rather fiasco, in which the legendary news organization used forged documents to manufacture a story discrediting President Bush’s National Guard service as an F-102 fighter pilot.
But judging from a “CBS Evening News” story broadcast Monday night, nothing much has changed. No forged documents this time, or old political enemies with an agenda. Just the baseless buildup of a conspiracy theory suggesting CBS News is channeling (no pun intended) Oliver Stone.
Katie Couric introduced this “news” story by saying: “The way things are going at the gas pump, there’s no point in topping off your tank today. Chances are the price will be even lower tomorrow. As of tonight gas is the lowest it’s been all year, a nationwide average of $2.23 a gallon.”
Is this just the result of market forces at work or sound economic management by the Bush administration? No, the question Couric wanted answered was: “Is this an election year present from President Bush to fellow Republicans?”
This is like suggesting that strong GDP growth, low unemployment, tame inflation, manageable interest rates, spectacular productivity, a record Dow, bulging profits and a budget deficit halved as promised and ahead of schedule are mere tricks to fool the voters on Nov. 7. And that after the election Karl Rove, operating from a secure and undisclosed location, will make a few phone calls to fire all those new hires and tank the economy.
It also begs the question: If lower energy costs are good for both the economy and GOP prospects, and the Bush administration has the power to control them, why aren’t they kept low all the time?
Couric does not entertain that obvious question, but rather passes the baton to reporter Anthony Mason, who — over a shot of a bumper sticker that reads “GOP: Grand Oil Party” — solemnly intones: “Gas started going down just as the fall campaign started heating up. Coincidence? Some drivers don’t think so.”
Well, actually, just one driver that Mason interviewed, who said the price drop was a “ploy” to “sort of get the American people to think, ‘Well, the economy is going good; let’s vote Republican.’ “
Mason conceded that you could “call the conspiracy theory crazy,” but then adds: “A recent poll found 42% of people actually believe the Bush administration has deliberately manipulated the price of gas to affect the election.”
Well, yeah. They’re called Democrats. There are also people who believe Elvis is buying smoothies at a convenience store in east Tennessee, or that it was the U.S. Air Force that flew planes into the World Trade Center. This is tabloid television, not journalism.
** Read the whole thing (another 10 seconds)
** Read the Media Research Center’s whole Katie Couric roundup for last night (2 minutes)
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