Ex-CBS Reporter Slams CBS's Jan Crawford on Fox for Saying Roberts Swayed by Media Bias
In the wake of revelations that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, former CBS journalist and Fox News contributor Marvin Kalb appeared on Tuesday's Fox & Friends and flat-out rejected the notion that the media influenced the Roberts opinion or that media influence, especially from left-wing networks, has any adverse impact on national politics.
Nevertheless, he squeezed in a comment stating that the Obamacare decision was “truly important” in his interview with Gretchen Carlson, and also said it pained him as a old CBS hand to slam CBS reporter Jan Crawford, but that's what he "reluctantly" did.
Kalb stated that “to raise the issue about whether the media influences us is to say the sun is going to rise in the morning. Obviously, we all live in a world in which we're influenced by what we read, what we see on television, what we hear on radio. But that does not mean that Justice Roberts made up his mind to do something truly important because of the media.”
Glad to see we entered a no spin zone.
Furthermore, Mr. Kalb criticized the Supreme Court based of opinion polls. This has been one of the cornerstones of left-wing debasement of the most prestigious institution in the country. This worries Kalb who said “right now, according to late polls, it's a little more than 40% of the American people have the kind of respect for the Supreme Court that they once had. That's a bad thing. And that is probably the result of the sharp deterioration and political warfare between both major political parties." Heaven forbid we debate and argue about the future of our constitution and whether it will be able to constitute anything in the future.
However, the most egregious part of the interview centered on Kalb stating the Court’s prestige is suffering due to the conservative tilt of the court. Kalb had the gumption to state that “the Supreme Court tended to be seen over the last decade as more an arm of the Republican Party than it was something that stood above national politics to make up its mind.” Furthermore, “it appears to the public, because so many of these decisions seem to have run in a conservative direction rather than in a liberal direction, that the court had become too political. I'm not sure that's the case at all but that is certainly the perception.”
So if the court had a golden age of liberalism, the media and Mr. Kalb would see it as impartial.
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Liberals see conservative
Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:10pm.
Liberals see non-liberal Supreme Court decisions as "political" and the media are mostly made up of liberals, ergo "the public" thinks the Supreme Court has become political. When inserting their opinion into their journalism, liberals never say "I think", they always say "the public thinks" or "many people feel" to claim that everyone agrees with their slanted opinion.
Kalb is a peer of Walter Kronkite . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:06pm.
. . . and so it should come as no surprise that he sounds like Kronkite.
These guys are like the Wizard of Oz after Toto has already pulled back the curtain and revealed the sham. They persist in maintaining the sharade as if no one has noticed, and their much younger proteges play along so as to not offend their gods of TV journalism.
Only a liberal like Kalb would say the court is conservative
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:30pm.
Only a liberal thinks the Court has moved and rules in a conservative manner. Marvin Kalb is a typical liberal masquerading as something else. The sad part about this is how many people he is able to fool.
We must never, ever vote for a democrat for anything at any time. Not even for the local dog catcher. A democrat is first and formost a liberal. Being a liberal is what their core is about. Lying is as much a part of their core as eating and sleeping.
Yes they worship bigger
Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:40pm.
Yes they worship bigger government, and so they feel it is perfectly ethical to lie in order to create more government. Once you understand this about them everything else makes sense.
C'mon Marv. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 3:17pm.
. . . Roberts didn't rule on the MERITS of the regime's arguments. He did NOT uphold Obamamcare. He rewrote the statute so the LIBS on the court could have a win. If he wasn't intimidated, WHAT THE H**L happened? Principle? Yea, right!
Marvin Kalb
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 4:38pm.
Wasn't he voted Mr. Relevancy in....never?
Apparently Roberts has done his "Court-saving"........
Submitted by GregE on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 8:28pm.
.........once before on a major case.
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/07/02/chief-justice-john-roberts...
Saw Mr. Adams interviewed by Dana Loesch last night on GBTV. Very interesting.
marvin kalb is another liberal hack
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 11:09pm.
Who cares what Marvin Kalb has to say. He is just another liberal hack. Never cared for him when he was on CBC, still don't. Just another washed up lib.