This is an outrage! CBS has a piece on their website that is so out of line it's one of the most agregious and disgusting examples of media malpractice I think I have ever seen. CBS News has this headline over the New Republic's article about Iran's election debacle: "Meet Iran's George W. Bush." Thanks to Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit for not just bringing this to me but for capturing the screen cap so CBS can't take it down without people seeing their propaganda and lies in full color:

Ahmadinejad is an evil dictator who is killing his own citizens in the streets because they are expressing their outrage at how he rigged the election through massive voter fraud. This creep also has his goons beat women in public for showing their hair. He bans satallite television. He has young girls executed when it was they who were raped. Ahmandinejad has the soul of the devil, and CBS calls him Iran's George W. Bush. Disgraceful!
This is supposed to be a legitimate news organization but they've proven themselves to be nothing but a black hole in which truth, fairness, and decency are sucked in to never be seen or heard from again. No wonder mainstream media news outlets, especially CBS, are losing viewers, readers, and listeners when they are incapable of reporting anything but lies like this.



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Really now - they both "sto... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Michael Laprarie | June 14, 2009 10:04 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Really now - they both "stole" an election, didn't they? Of course they are equal in the eyes of C-"BS". (Never mind the fact that the New York Times proved conclusively that Florida wasn't stolen in 2000, and that there was scant evidence of any kind of voter fraud both in 2000 and 2004.)
I think we'll start seeing a lot more of this kind of "but Bush was worse!!!" propaganda, especially when the economy starts to sag under the weight of the taxes, interest rate increases, and inflation that are sure to come from Obama's massive deficit spending.
- Michael Laprarie
1. Posted by Michael Laprarie | June 14, 2009 10:04 PM |
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Posted on June 14, 2009 22:04
2. Posted by GarandFan | June 14, 2009 10:29 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Same old CeeBS. Still carrying water for Barry. Now let's see President Numb-nuts say or do something constructive about the situation. Or are we going to hear another string of apologies?
I'm sure CeeBS will back his play of doing nothing.
2. Posted by GarandFan | June 14, 2009 10:29 PM |
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Posted on June 14, 2009 22:29
3. Posted by 914 | June 14, 2009 10:39 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Wow! The MSM are sinking faster then the economy. This makes sense. If your candidate cannot accomplish anything meaningful, you can always blame Bush. in the meantime, Obamas sinking faster then the Titanic.
3. Posted by 914 | June 14, 2009 10:39 PM |
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Posted on June 14, 2009 22:39
4. Posted by epador | June 14, 2009 10:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No bias here. Move along, now.
4. Posted by epador | June 14, 2009 10:50 PM |
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Posted on June 14, 2009 22:50
5. Posted by LaMedusa | June 14, 2009 11:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Just like the pope, http://www.prophecycorner.theforeverfamily.com/Pope_Ratzinger_handsign2-20-09.jpg he's on the New World Order team, so he has to remain in office http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7430/bushiranlc6.jpg in order to assist with the shift in power.
This is how the election was surmised: "It was just a movie. They were all just players in a movie."
HUSSEIN GHARIBI, of Tehran on the Iranian presidential election, which the opposition says was stolen.
5. Posted by LaMedusa | June 14, 2009 11:32 PM |
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Posted on June 14, 2009 23:32
6. Posted by LiberalNightmare | June 14, 2009 11:40 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
The only thing keeping Ahmadinejad from being Irans Obama is a lack of funding for ACORN
6. Posted by LiberalNightmare | June 14, 2009 11:40 PM |
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Posted on June 14, 2009 23:40
7. Posted by Oyster | June 15, 2009 6:33 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I went to TNR, where the original article is, just out of curiosity. I wondered if the title was the author's idea or CBS's. The author used pretty much the same title. While CBS used "Meet Iran's George Bush", the author had not used the word "meet". Nevertheless it's repugnant. Surprisingly, Bush's name does not even appear beyond the title.
She sets the tone with the title though and rather than offer any side-by-side facts to prove factual correlations between urban and rural voter turnout she instead implies there is some correlation between an Iranian conservative and an American conservative.
And finishes it off with declaring, unequivocally that Mousavi is certainly not Iran's Barack Obama. We wouldn't want to infer from this article that Obama is anything like an Iranian, now would we?
I think one of the commenters at TNR summed it up well for those who have taken issue with those of us who take issue:
"How would "Like Hitler, Obama came into office promising a clean break with the past" sit with you?"
7. Posted by Oyster | June 15, 2009 6:33 AM |
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Posted on June 15, 2009 06:33
8. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | June 15, 2009 8:12 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Democrats are utterly Hobbesian. Their sense of entitlement extends to all areas of life, now including elections. OF COURSE if they do not win an election it will have been stolen from them by definition. Worse than spoiled little brats.
8. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | June 15, 2009 8:12 AM |
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Posted on June 15, 2009 08:12
9. Posted by jim2 | June 15, 2009 9:41 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
It should probably be noted that the one(s) who write an article or story generally do NOT write the headline.
This difference has been attributed as the cause of several previous instances of grossly-slanted or otherwise inappropriate headlines in AP and other MSM stories/articles. That is, the "deed" was done back at AP (or other) not by the author(s).
9. Posted by jim2 | June 15, 2009 9:41 AM |
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Posted on June 15, 2009 09:41
10. Posted by Oyster | June 16, 2009 6:29 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
jim2, you're right that someone else creates the title - in most cases. CBS took the liberty of adding the word "meet" adding more insult. Not only did they have no trouble with the title, apparently they felt it didn't go far enough.
10. Posted by Oyster | June 16, 2009 6:29 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2009 06:29
11. Posted by Brian Richard Allen
| June 16, 2009 5:36 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
When will one or more of the Right's much-vaunted Constitutional lawyers, F Lee Levin, for example, enroll a funding following and take the DNC and its uniformly Goebbelsesque propagandist, polemicist and pamphleteer mass-media hijackers to the FEC and to every court in the land on account of the Hundreds of Millions/maybe Billions of Dollars of free advertising that every major entertainment and/or media organization, every election cycle, provides its fellow fascist "Democrats?"
Brian Richard Allen
Los Angeles Califobambicated 90028
And the Far Abroad
11. Posted by Brian Richard Allen
| June 16, 2009 5:36 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2009 17:36