CBS VP & London Bureau Chief: 'Just Another Typical Liberal Reporter'


CBS Logo, CBS If you were to construct, from everything you know about the species, a stereotypical, liberal member of the MSM, Jennifer Siebens would be it. Recently, Ms. Siebens gave an interview to the student newspaper--the Oberlin Review--at her alma mater, Oberlin College. In it, she revealed her admiration for the radical movements of the '60's and current infatuation with President Barack Obama.

Yes, I know, a natural and common transition.

On her love of Oberlin College and the '60's era hippy love fest, Siebens had this to say:

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[...]I just fell in love with the place. It was teeming with hippies. I was from this very proper, suburban school in northern New Jersey and I had no idea that these were my people.

Oberlin has so much flexibility. [...] The College was very amoeba-like. We went to pass/fail grading and I went off grades my freshman year. It became a little complicated when I decided to go to grad school because I had no grade point average.

I thought about dropping out. I really had doubts. The world was really screwed up and nothing made sense and why did you need a college education? Today it seems really stupid that you could be that riled up, but there was a lot of this then -- a lot of alternative communities. There was a big one in Taos, New Mexico and a lot of people were into the whole hippie thing, dropping out and going to a commune in the middle of nowhere.

Indeed, those hippies were her people--amoeba-like, pass/fail grading, close approximation of commune life--what's not to like? Of course, it was during this period of time that Seibens and many of her classmates were romanced by the radical elements then infecting American universities. She describes her experience well.

I'm a new freshman, and the next thing I know, I'm sitting in, in the [Cox] administration building. [...] It was crazy. I got politicized so quickly. I had never done anything like that in high school...so I got thrown into this and it never stopped. [There were] riot police on Tappan Square at one point. There was no tear gas, but there was the threat of tear gas. 

(emphasis added)

Like many of her peers, she "got politicized" and went into journalism. They won (lost, really) the VietNam War. Made Nixon resign. Hounded Reagan. Got Clinton elected. Made excuses for him. Somehow let Gore lose. Made Bush pay for it. And for winning in Iraq. Finally, their crowning acheivement: Presdent Barack Obama.

It is on this last accomplishment that Siebens is most revealing. Being the London Bureau Chief for CBS, Siebens was concerned about not being able to affect the outcome, like her peers in the thick of things.

They [Europeans] were so convinced that [Obama] was going to win [and that is because] they don't understand the role of religion in the conservative side of the United States, even though they saw Bush get elected twice. There are always surprise twists.

I was fretting that I was going to be overseas for this election, [but] if you're in a first world country like the UK, you've got TV, you've got blogs -- it's really like you're there. By the morning after the election, all the [London Times] had a double-wide spread with a map of the United States and a state-by-state recap of what happened. The whole world was watching and I was surprised [to see such interest] because when I went back overseas, I thought everybody hated us. That it was a 'my way or the highway" approach. People really believe in the American dream. Even if they live in Kenya or if they live in Germany.

(emphasis added)

Siebens assumed the rest of the rest of the world "hated us" because that's how she and her fellow travelers in the MSM felt. On a personal note, I've lived in the UK on and off since June 2006. I've spoken with grad students, professors, and other members of the academy. I've talked politics with media types. I've discussed all things America with average UK subjects.

My sense, from all of these conversations, is that the same type of person who dislikes America and President Bush in the United States dislikes America and President Bush in the UK. That is to say, that the type of person Siebens talks to would have disliked America before Obama's election and, obviously, would like America now that he's in office.

It's called liberal confirmation bias.

—Jacob S. Lybbert is an editorial associate at NewsBusters.


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radical movements of the

radical movements of the '60's and current infatuation with President Barack Obama

And therein lies the problem. It's been 4 decades now, and they're still at it. These people hate the U.S., and won't be happy until we have given up all of our rights and have adopted socialism, Government controls, and mind control of every single one of us.

 And Obama is offering no discouragement for this attitude -- in fact, his association with American terrorists only encourages these people. Don't tell me for a moment that the MSM or Obama have the best interests of the USA at heart. Liberals = radicals in the very worst sense of the word.

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The challenge is to follow a consistent plan despite inconsistent prices - Sarah Palin, State of the State of Alaska speech

If hippie life was so great....

why aren't they still living it...?

You know damn well they would never let their own kids grow up like that or take such an lackadaisical approach to a college eduction that they pay for .I bet all her kids went to private school.

Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.

Oberlin College is

Oberlin College is considered one of the premier radical schools in the USA.  From Crappypedia:

  • Founded by Presbyterian ministers and even run by an evangelist, the student and faculty have been fairly anti-religion for years.
  • First college in the United States to regularly admit African-American students (1835)
  • Oldest continuously operating coeducational institution, since having admitted four women in 1837.
  • One historian called Oberlin, "the town that started the Civil War" due to its reputation as a hotbed of abolitionism.
  • Key stop along the Underground Railroad, station number 99.
  • First college in the country to have a co-ed dormitory.  (thank you Mexico for the oral birth control pill)
  • All but one of Oberlin College's dormitories are coed. The Baldwin Cottage is open only to women and transgender students - Oberlin has a thriving LGBT community.  (Isn't that special)
  • Oberlin students have a reputation for being radically liberal or progressive - ranked as the eleventh most politically active by the Princeton Review in 2005.  (At least they're most radical in Ohio)
  • Recent activism among the student body has resulted in a campus-wide ban on sales of Coca-Cola products.  (Yeah, sticking it to the Man!)
  • Alumni - Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield and Michelle Malkin, a prominent conservative commentator.

Apoligize

Hmmm, so Oberlin caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans:

One historian called Oberlin, "the town that started the Civil War"

When are they going to apoligize for starting the bloodiest conflict ever on American soil?

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How's this for an

How's this for an apology?

BTW, doesn't the guy with the camera look an awful lot like Chuck Todd, AKA Captain Redbeard?