On Thursday night, CBS anchor Katie Couric began a short news update on Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska by immediately highlighting his party affiliation: “The senior Republican in the U.S. Senate went on trial today for corruption...” Stevens was appointed to his seat in 1968. But the night before, in an item on ethical questions surrounding Congressman Charles Rangel of New York, a House veteran elected in 1970 who is Chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, Couric failed to inform viewers he's a Democrat. Though, as his bio recites, he's “Chairman of the Board of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,” sans any party ID Couric announced on Wednesday's CBS Evening News:
The House also plans to investigate one of its own: New York Congressman Charles Rangel. He's come under fire for, among other things, failure to pay taxes on a luxury villa he owns in the Dominican Republic. Rangel has rejected calls that he step down as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Couric on Stevens on Thursday night, September 25, as she also brought in Alaska's Governor, Sarah Palin:
The senior Republican in the U.S. Senate went on trial today for corruption -- Ted Stevens of Alaska. Prosecutors say a contractor renovated Stevens' home for free, but the Senator failed to report it as a gift. The defense told the court Stevens paid every bill he received for the project and had no idea the contractor wasn't billing him for all the work. Here in New York today, reporters asked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin if she supports Stevens' re-election. She replied, “we'll see where his trial goes.”
Last week, however, ABC anchor Charles Gibson noted Rangel's party affiliation, reading this short update on the Thursday, September 18 World News:
The House ethics committee will meet next week to consider an investigation into Congressman Charles Rangel's personal finances. Rangel, a Democrat from New York, is Chairman of the powerful House committee which writes the tax laws. He's under pressure to step down over questions about unreported income and unpaid taxes on a beach house that he owns in the Dominican Republic.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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To her defense...
September 25, 2008 - 20:04 ET by The DistributistI am not sure button-nose knows there are two parties. She is only aware of "us", i.e. "The Beautiful People", and those nasty neanderthals, the Republicans.
"Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers." -GKC
Couric left the planet a long time ago
September 25, 2008 - 23:40 ET by wdhorningCouric has only one agenda: ratings. So the truth is not anywhere to be found.
By Democrat criteria isn't
September 25, 2008 - 20:05 ET by Jack BauerBy Democrat criteria isn't Rangel eminently qualified to be their VP pick?
He's been in the Congress since gas lighting. He's got weird hair. And he talks gibberish.
OBAMA/BIDEN... UMMM & DUMBER
When I see him on TV he
September 25, 2008 - 20:11 ET by MidAmericaWhen I see him on TV he has all the charm and personality of Jabba the Hutt.
I'm telling you, the capital
September 25, 2008 - 20:14 ET by Chris NormanI'm telling you, the capital "D" is broken on all the teleprompters!
McNotObama '08
But also when katie signs
September 25, 2008 - 20:20 ET by MidAmericaBut also when katie signs off, the graphic: CBS NEWS (D) isn't properly displayed either.
Crap! If CBS News is a
September 26, 2008 - 04:18 ET by tomnkikiCrap! If CBS News is a registered trademark, then it would read, CBS News(r). That is a lie!!
Wonder
September 25, 2008 - 20:47 ET by TheAssessorWonder how many crumbs from Fannie/Freddie found their way into Charlie's bread box? Follow that trail and you'd need a pooper scooper. Rangel makes me itch.
Barack Obama is a political sociopath.
Name that Party
September 25, 2008 - 21:49 ET by LionKingIt is so redundant to have mention Democrats being in trouble. They only mention Republicans to clarify that it is NOT a Democrat.
Perky Katie isn't to
September 25, 2008 - 22:08 ET by HockeyKidPerky Katie isn't to blame. She just reads the teleprompter. That's why Bob's her hero.
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Why do I call him "Bob"? 'Cause "Barack Hussein Obama" = "Bob's Marihuana Cakes"
Fuzzy Katie, still confused
September 25, 2008 - 23:27 ET by GoodieFirst, I cannot see her face as CBSssss has this hazy, fuzzy, lense, I guess that is a good thing, however I never watch just catch it here on NB, wow keep the L label current KC.
I think that when you put
September 25, 2008 - 23:32 ET by USA4freedomI think that when you put the perky ones name up you should put an (M) for moron.
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Poor Katie
September 26, 2008 - 01:19 ET by Alpedhuez55Poor Katie....If she wants to see what life will be like for her in five years...she should read the post about Jan Pauley drawing 8 people for her Obama Roundtable.
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Please, do tell me this.
September 26, 2008 - 04:20 ET by tomnkikiPlease, do tell me this. How can a senior Democrat who is Chairman of the Ways and Means Commission, which writes our tax code NOT know he has to pay certain taxes? Charlie, you might want to rethink who you call mentally "disabled", not my friend. You moron(sorry, don't mean to insult moron's).
»→ Because Katie's racist
September 26, 2008 - 05:18 ET by Cool ArrowThis is no joke. Katie believes any black person who is the subject of a corruption investigation is by default, Democrat. Naming the party is therefore redundant.
If the story were about a corrupt black Republican, the descrioptor, of course would be necessary.
That's the logic of people like Couric who cannot comprehend chattel straying from her political family's plantation.
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Joe Biden 6/12/87
Not surprised.
September 26, 2008 - 07:57 ET by Blogger Guy00001This is not a surprise. The media almost universally hides the "D" when it would embarrass their cause, and promotes the "R" when it embarrasses Republicans.
It is planned and intentional. The media have absolutely no sense of responsibility.