CBS Touts 'Funny' Sketch Portraying Netanyahu as Pandering to 'Racist' GOPers

Scott Whitlock | March 4, 2015
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The hosts of CBS This Morning on Wednesday hyped a Comedy Central sketch dismissing Republican supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu as "racist." The journalists played a clip of the Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore in which the anchor mocked the GOP: "You made Netanyahu come all the way over here just to embarrass Obama?"  The sketch then included a fake ad portaying the Israeli prime minister as available for hire: "If you hate your president for ideological or racist reasons, we'll get you the justice talk radio says you deserve." As images of Netanyahu appeared, he faux commercial wondered, "Did your country elect a black?"

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