According to content cops at Elon Musk's X, a tweet mocking CBS News for their softball interviews with Kamala and "Feeble Joe" was tagged under their "Hateful Conduct" policy. This was the tweet:
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It's the "Feeble Joe"? It's mocking someone's age or disability? Or is someone just super-sensitive about mocking CBS?
This was based in part by my old MRC Special Report titled "Syrupy Minutes," lining up the softball sessions on 60 Minutes from 2006-2010. But we certainly saw the sap with Joe Biden and with Kamala Harris. The Kamala Harris interview is exactly the sleazy-editing matter that Trump sued over, demanding they make public the transcript of that interview.
As I noted when Scott Pelley interviewed Biden in 2023, "Some thought the president looked doddering -- and the interview was carefully edited by his CBS friends. Pelley admitted Biden was, well, 'tired' from running the country." Pelley oozed "America's oldest president seemed tired from directing all of this. But he was very clear on what he stood for and how his policies, in his view, would see America through."
In 2022, Pelley promoted Biden on more domestic concerns (while the 2023 segment was entirely about the Israel-Hamas war). The worst question was Pelley suggesting "hard-right Republicans" are making the world more dangerous with their failure to elect a new Speaker.
CBS has a long history of leftist bias and Democrat partisanship. Going back to Edward R. Murrow ripping Joe McCarthy through Dan Rather ripping George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Today, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan is embarrassing herself trying to embarrass J.D. Vance.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced she wanted the presidents of PBS and NPR to testify before the House Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on Government Efficiency. NPR CEO Katherine Mayer claimed she's all about touting the "impartial" and "fact-based" NPR news product. This is false on several levels. Mayer declined the invitation to testify in 2024 and they aren't demonstrating any commitment to an "impartial, fact-based" approach.
In a note to staff this morning, NPR’s CEO said House R’s are planning a hearing on bias in federally funded media and NPR “welcomes opportunities to discuss the critical role of public media in delivering impartial, fact-based news and reporting to the American people.” pic.twitter.com/7GV9QpRe7x
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) February 3, 2025
Exhibit A is their dismissal of the Hunter Biden laptop in October 2020. Their news boss Terence Samuel poured acid on the topic: “We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
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