The invaluable Media Research Center has issued a cyber alert this morning (not yet posted to its excellent website www.mrc.org) about a CBS News story's political slant, which is simultaneously beyond both parody and contempt. We quote their email alert this morning:

"The long job slump," in George Bush's America, "has left many Americans desperate enough to risk everything for a decent paycheck," CBS's Dan Rather suggested Wednesday night, so some end up paying "the ultimate price." Rather asked: "What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy, it may be, for some, the only job they can find."

In Delaware, with 3.4 percent unemployment?

We can only add that the implication that the brave, skilled, and patriotic men, such as Scott Helvenston, were otherwise unemployable is simply disgusting. CBS News, corporate parent Viacom, and Dan Rather himself all owe an abject apology to these men who gave their lives in service of high ideals.

Are there no depths which these people will not plumb?

Posted by Thomas    04 02 04