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September 13, 2007

Pelosi Attacks CBS Reporter's Objectivity

If you've ever watched the White House Press Corps in action, you would see that it is largely a mob of liberal activists armed with DNC talking points. For six years of the Bush presidency, no question has been too harsh, accustory or slanderous. As recent events have shown, only friendly questions are considered out of line.

The DC Examiner reports that yesterday, CBS White House correspondent Jim Axelrod (from the MoveOn.org wing of the Tiffany network) asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

“How do you view your stewardship of Congress as anything other than a failure to make the president change course?”

Pelosi's response:

“What a lovely objective question on the part of the press!”

After decades of reporters fawning over Democrats, one tough question prompts that kind of response from Speaker Pelosi. More shocking is what happened later:

Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly later told Yeas & Nays that the tone of Axelrod’s question was what took the speaker by surprise. “I don’t think she’s ever accused a journalist of bias before,” Daly said. “The tone of it and the way he asked it was, how shall we say, unusual.” Daly added that, following the conference, Pelosi was eager to find out the identity and affiliation of Axelrod, and why he would have asked such a question.

There you go, Democrats taking names of reporters who ask them tough questions. To borrow a tactic of the left, doesn't that smack of McCarthyism? That's how Democrats deal with the press.

Look for Media Matters to 'Gannonize' Jim Axelrod.

BOOK PLUG: I deal with Democrats incestuous relationship with the Democratic Party in my book, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report." The back cover carries an endorsement from Nancy Pelosi, who said that Jeff Gannon "must be stopped."

Posted by jeffgannon at September 13, 2007 09:44 AM

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