CBS Applauds Businesses Trying to Intimidate Mississippi Over Religious Freedom Law

Kyle Drennen | April 7, 2016
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

After the network spent days attacking both North Carolina and Mississippi for passing religious freedom laws it labeled “discriminatory,” on Thursday, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King touted “a major corporate backlash” against Mississippi as “executives from GE, Pepsi, Levi Strauss, and other companies sent a letter yesterday to the Governor Phil Bryant condemning the new law...”

In the report that followed, correspondent Mark Strassman promoted one small business owner blasting the measure: “In Jackson, Mississippi, Mitchell Moore owns Campbell's bakery. This Republican says the state's religious freedom law is bad for business.” Moore worried: “...we now have a target on our back and we are going to have to explain to our customers, ‘No, no, we don't agree with the bill.’”

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