Bob Schieffer Outted as Racist, Gay Bashing Nazi

Here’s a good site. A liberal organization monitoring media bias. That’s a lot like John Gatti keeping crime in check, but needless to say that they’ve only been able to uncover conservative bias. Like this nugget, unearthing conservative bias at, (ahem) CBS.

In the July 21 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, columnist Gail Shister quoted (registration required) CBS chairman Les Moonves: "That's not the end-all, be-all, but obviously the White House doesn't hate CBS anymore with [Bob] Schieffer in the anchor chair."

But far from hating CBS, the White House has reason to embrace the network and its selection of Schieffer to serve as interim anchor following Dan Rather's departure as anchor of the CBS Evening News. Schieffer has previously described his "golfing friendship" with President Bush "during the 1990s" and has said, "It's always difficult to cover someone you know personally."

Following the announcement that Schieffer would moderate the third and final presidential debate last year, Media Matters for America noted several statements Schieffer had made that raised questions about his objectivity.

Moreover, Shister wrote: "Moonves says Schieffer is looked upon kindly at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because his brother, John Thomas Schieffer, was ambassador to Australia (he was posted to Japan in February), and was partners with the future President Bush in the Texas Rangers."

I don’t know enough about Schieffer to assess his political inclination, but the case for him being a Conservative mouth piece is a bit thin. As far as I know, Mary Matalin, who also worked for the President, is sleeping with James Carville, but that certainly does not make Cue Ball a Republican. I mean jeez, it isn’t like Schieffer was Jimmy Carter’s speechwriter, or I don't know... say, Lyndon Johnson’s Press Secretary. I mean trying to pass him off as unbiased under those cirumstances would be downright criminal, right?