Memo to See-BS:  Fox, you ain't

The Department of Not Being Surprised When The Leopard Doesn't Change His Spots weighs in today with this blurb about See-BS' new "fair and balanced" approach to coverage of the White House and the Bush Administration.

CBS News turned over its entire "Face the Nation" broadcast on Sunday to inveterate Bush-basher Ted Kennedy

Gee, guys - are you sure that's not invertebrate  Bush-basher Teddy (hic!) Kennedy?

after refusing a White House request that they also include a Republican to rebut Kennedy's bloviations.

"The White House was happy to put Dan Bartlett or somebody else on that program and CBS said, 'Thank you, No,'" reported Brit Hume on "Fox News Sunday."

Of course not, you sillies.  You can't just go up there and challenge ol' Red-Nose with facts  and all - you might give 'im a coronary or somethin'-somethin'.

At the very least, you'd spike his blood pressure - and Fat Boy's not terribly videogenic when his face gets all red like that.*

The CBS snub comes just a week after the network promised Bartlett, who recently moved from Communications Director to the White House counsel's job, that they'd stop skewing their coverage against the president.

According to Broadcasting & Cable, CBS News President Andrew Heyward traveled to D.C. and personally assured Bartlett that "neither CBS News nor [Dan] Rather had a vendetta against the White House."

Personally, I think Andy just wanted to try and wrangle W out of a stay in the Lincoln Bedroom.  I hear tell he's never forgiven Linda & Harry Thomasen for that little coup. (snicker)

"From here on out [CBS] would do everything it could to be fair and balanced," he reportedly pledged.

Good Cthulu™, I hope they didn't buy that  line of bullshit.

I mean - Fox News, they ain't, mheh. 


* Yeah, yeah, I know - when is that lard-assed, liberal son-of-a-bitch ever  videogenic? (guffaw)