Full-Tilt Press Bias
“Has the criticism of CIA Director George Tenet been unfairly politicized?”
That’s the question CNN put to its viewers. How biased can you get? During the 8 years of Republicans politicizing each and every rumor, allegation and bald-faced lie about Clinton with the press gleefully tailing along, I do not recall any issue during that time which was characterized by the press in that light, especially so early in the life of the story.
And yet just a few days after the story gets into the spotlight, the story is not centered, as it should be, on the fact that the government ignored clear evidence and decided to lie to the American people in order to drag us into a war we didn’t want. Instead, it is being framed by the press as a story about Democrats unfairly criticizing the president for political gain.
No greater ally could President Bush ask for than the one the press is continuing to provide him with.