“A conservative Republican was beaten by an even more conservative Tea Party candidate,” CBS Evening News anchor
Scott Pelley announced Wednesday night in reporting Ted Cruz’s victory
in the Texas Republican primary. Sharyl Attkisson relayed how the
candidate Cruz defeated, David Dewhurst, “is considered a very
conservative Republican,” yet “Cruz spent months tacking even further to the right.”
CBS, however, was unwilling to apply any ideological label in their
obituary piece on hard-left writer Gore Vidal, though in that story
Martha Teichner did issue one tag: She referred to the “televised
confrontation between Gore Vidal and conservative commentator William Buckley.”
Pelley described Vidal as an “author” and hailed him as “a man of letters and words, wielding them as swords to cut down the powerful.”