Ahh, if the shoe fits, as you say!

Look, i'm not saying CBS hasn't had it's moments. Is it FOX news? is it 24 hours a day of propaganda and slanted commentary? No! It's not even close to FOX in that regard.

As for calling Mccain a disgrace, well, here it is.

Quote:

BRIAN MONTOPOLI: It seems that some reporters, including yourself and CNN's Michael Ware, have really taken umbrage at John McCain's recent comments, essentially saying that there are a lot of neighborhoods where you can walk around relatively safely. Is it fair to say that that really sort of bothered reporters? ALLEN PIZZEY: Yes. It's disgraceful for a man seeking highest office, I think, to talk utter rubbish. And that is utter rubbish. It's electoral propaganda. It is simply not true. No one in his right mind who has been to Baghdad believes that story. Now, McCain and some other senators were there on Sunday, and they claimed, "Oh, we walked around for a whole hour…and we drove in from the airport. Gosh, aren't we great, we drove in from the airport." Excuse me, Mr. McCain, you drove in in a large convoy of heavily armed vehicles. The last one had a sign on it saying "Keep back 100 yards. Deadly force authorized." Every single car that they approached or passed pulled over and stopped, because that's the way it is. When one of those security details goes by, every ordinary person gets the hell out of the way, in case they get shot. If he did walk around that market, and I didn't see him do it, and he didn't announce he was going to do it, you can bet your life there were an awful lot of soldiers deployed to make sure that nobody came near that place. He's talking rubbish. And he should not get away with it.

I for one dont have a problem with that. None at all. The reporter in question (with whom I am not familiar) was asked his feelings on the situation. It's not like he reported it as a news story. Besides, Mccain, (a guy I actually like alot) was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead.” and was now famously draped in Kevlar.

McCain said that there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk safely through neighborhoods, today.”
McCain told a reporter that his visit to the market today was proof that you could “walk freely” in some areas of Baghdad.

He misrepresented what happened, and how the scene on the ground was. I think thats disgraceful when you are asking me to elect you President of the US.

P.S = Andy Rooney is a crazy old coot. :yep:

Media Matters (a source im sure you will love and embrace;) ) did a study on CBS liberal bias not long ago, based around it's popular Sunday panel shows....

• 67% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization" (Compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for NPR/PBS). However, the belief that "Iraq was directly involved in September 11" was held by 33% of CBS viewers and only 24% of Fox viewers, 23% for ABC, 22% for NBC, 21% for CNN and 10% for NPR/PBS
• 33% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" "since the war ended". (Compared with 23% for CBS, 20% for both CNN and NBC, 19% for ABC and 11% for both NPR/PBS)
• 35% of Fox viewers believed that "the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war" with Iraq. (Compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for NPR/PBS)