When I turned on the television this morning I had already read about NBC's report stating that when U.S. troops arrived at Al Qaqaa the 380 tons of high explosives were already gone. The TV happened by coincidence to be tuned to NBC and I happened to catch most of their morning show's rebroadcast of that report. I stopped paying attention for a while - what's his name was doing the weather. Then they introduced Tim Russert who came one to stand in front of a big red and blue map to explain the electoral college and how that was looking for their guy the candidates one week out from the election.

Then the anchor boy brought up the explosives story and made note of how the Kerry campaign was using it to attack the Bush administration. When asked, Russert agreed that this would likely be "an explosive" issue for the Bush Campaign.

Excuse me, but didn't you less that ten minutes prior run a report that debunked the story and defused Kerry's use of it as a campaign issue? I mean it's one thing to ignore a story like the Washingtion Times catching Kerry lying about meeting with the entire U.N. Security Council prior to his vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq. This you could rationalize as a decision based on the "newsworthyness" of the story. But to ignore the reporting by your own network, on your own damn, show just to push an issue for Kerry is demonstrative of bias beyond belief.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:03 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment