Ever since I reviewed the “news” segments where Katie Couric accorded different treatment to the Democratic and Republican nominees for Vice President last fall, I have been wondering if the reason the CBSNews anchor chose to include the clip of Joe Biden telling us how Franklin Roosevelt went [...]
When we accused Democrats of trying to unplug Grandma from life-support to save a few bucks, they called us fear-mongers. They called Sarah Palin "delusional" when she rightly pointed out that medical rationing would amount to a "death panel." But a recent airing of CBS's 60 Minutes offers a textbook [...]
Perhaps it was because I caught sight of my print-out of Katie Couric’s inteview, with the CBS Anchor’s questions highlighted, after my phone interview yesterday with Carly Fiorina that I linked the two exchanges in my mind. In both cases, individuals with a bias interviewed accomplished women running for federal [...]
Jim Kunstler in one of his finest moments
How infantile is American society? Last night’s CBS “Business Update” (in the midst of its “60 Minutes” program) featured three items: 1.) The New Moon teen vampire movie led the weekend box-office receipts; 2.) Cadbury shares hit an all-time [...]
Long before the 2008 presidential campaign, I found CBS News Anchor Tracy Flick Katie Couric annoying. Like Reese Witherspoon’s character in the 1999 flick Election, Couric comes across as smug and self-righteous. It seems she believes that her prominence means she knows better than the rest of [...]
Earlier today, while doing cardio to warm up for my workout, I watched the TV screen where the local CBS affiliate was constantly cutting to live footage of students (and associated 1960s leftovers) protesting a fee increase. And their constant coverage got me wondering if the same station offered the [...]
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom -- seen as unusually elusive since his recent withdrawal from the 2010 Democratic governor's race -- suggested to KCBS radio Thursday that the press is...
Yesterday, rumor swept the dextrosphere that President Barack H. Obama was prepared to accept the recommendation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal; the president, quoth the Great Mentioner, would send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan.
And who could doubt the gossip? After all, it came from CBS, bastion of unbiased and utterly [...]
