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Updated: CNN promotes Blumenthal (again), continues partisan attack on CRs…
By sage of monticello | July 31, 2007
Newbusters has the story.
CNN’s “Newsroom” apparently can’t get enough of Max Blumenthal. Less than four hours after their 5-minute infomercial on Blumenthal latest left-wing hack job, host Rick Sanchez and correspondent Josh Levs did another segment promoting the “expose” on College Republicans. Sanchez and Levs continued to “conveniently omit” the liberal associations of Blumenthal, not even mentioning Blumenthal’s posting of his video on the Huffington Post, as they did in their first segment. Sanchez was even open about where he stood on the issue of young Republican “chicken hawks.” “As you watch these guys – and I think most people at home would agree — there seems to be a certain hypocritical nature to this. I mean, they’re so boastful when they talk about supporting the war, and yet sheepish when it comes to actually doing something about it.”
Update 11:30 am: Media Research Center, in a “Cyber Alert”, has noticed the biased manner in which CNN has covered the chicken hawk story. MRC had this to say:
As part of his report, Levs interviewed Max Blumenthal and the co-chair of the College Republican National Committee, Nick Miccarelli. The clip from the Blumenthal interview lasted uninterrupted for 35-seconds, while Miccarelli, whose clips were interrupted by a short biography of his background, consumed a mere 20 seconds.
35 seconds for liberals. 20 seconds for conservatives. That is a substantially disproportionate for people who allegedly support the Fairness Doctrine. But as we have noted before, liberals often (and hypocritcally) don’t hold themselves to the same standard that they hold everyone else.
