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12/15/2003: "CBS Spin"

Yesterday while I was driving to work, I was listening to my favorite conservative talk radio station KFYI here in Phoenix. The station gives news updates from the major network and cable stations. It is usually Fox News in the morning and CBS in the afternoon. Perhaps this is their version of fair and balanced.

The CBS news update was reporting on President Bush’s earlier speech on the capture of Saddam Hussein. I was stunned when the report finished with “The President concedes that this does not mean attacks on troops will decrease.” Concedes? I didn’t hear the President concede anything in his speech, I heard him counsel the American people that this doesn’t mean that attacks will stop. The spin of that single word changes the entire perspective of his speech and is just one of the many examples of CBS’s bias and contempt for this President in their news reports.