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Conservative Bashing System

CBS anchor Bob Schieffer tells Howard Kurtz today (couldn’t find the link yet, sorry) on the Durbin Speech: “I just don’t think it’s that big a deal…He said he went too far and I take him at his word. We don’t cover every apology by a politician who says he didn’t mean things quite that way.” Kurtz didn’t note what Brent Bozell noted last week: in January of 1995, when House Majority Leader Dick Armey misspoke before reporters, and called Rep. Barney Frank “Barney Fag” — an unintentional gaffe preserved only by a reporter’s personal cassette recorder — it was the number one story that night on CBS.

Tim GrahamTim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center, where he began in 1989, and has served there with the exception of 2001 and 2002, when served ...
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