CBS’s Stahl to Jimmy Carter: ‘You Blame Teddy’ for Killing Unive

Brad Wilmouth
September 18th, 2010 3:53 PM
Saturday’s The Early Show on CBS showed a preview clip of correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewing former President Jimmy Carter for 60 Minutes in which Carter blamed former Senator Ted Kennedy for derailing his universal health care plan in the 1970s. Stahl referred to former Senator Kennedy as "Teddy" as she asked Carter if he held Kennedy responsible. Stahl: "And you blame Teddy for the failure…
 

Labeling Contrast: Glenn Beck = 'Controversial Conservative;' Al Sharp

Rich Noyes
August 27th, 2010 3:23 PM
Just like NBC and ABC this morning, CBS’s The Early Show had a hostile take on Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally scheduled for Saturday on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Correspondent Whit Johnson labeled Beck a “controversial conservative,” event speaker Alveda King (a niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.) a “longtime advocate for conservative causes,” and suggested that the fact that some…
 

CBS: Robert Byrd 'One of the Hardest Working Senators in Modern Histor

Kyle Drennen
June 28th, 2010 5:39 PM
On Monday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Whit Johnson reported breaking news of the death of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd and proclaimed: "By all accounts, he was one of the hardest working senators in modern history." Johnson touted Byrd's "four volume history of the Senate" and described him as the "unequaled master of the Senate rules." Part of the "hard work" Johnson cited was the…