CBS Does DNC Talking Points: ‘Tax Cut for the Wealthy,’ ‘Not Middle Class’

Scott Whitlock | October 20, 2017
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The journalists at CBS on Friday sounded more like DNC campaign operatives instead of reporters. Talking to Paul Ryan about budget issues, This Morning co-host Charlie Rose pressed, “How are you going to make the case that this is not a tax cut for the wealthy?” Co-host Norah O’Donnell drilled into specifics of the still unfinished plan. Talking about deductions, she mentioned New York state and fulminated: “When you talk about people live paycheck to paycheck, that's not a middle-class tax cut. That’s not a middle class tax cut!”