[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
The CBS This Morning anchors stayed true to their reputation of playing softball with liberal guests, while badgering conservative/traditional ones with their 15 October 2014 interview of Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Norah O'Donnell raised the much-hyped midterm report from the bishops' synod underway at the Vatican, and wondered, "How groundbreaking is it for the Catholic Church to raise even that question about whether the Catholic Church should welcome gay people?"
When Cardinal Dolan asserted that homosexuals are welcome in the Catholic Church, O'Donnell shot back, "So, then why has...Cardinal [Raymond] Burke said that this entire document...[is] confused; it's erroneous, and that whole thing should be scrapped?" By contrast, the anchor, along with colleagues Charlie Rose and Gayle King, gave LGBT activist/actor Laverne Cox the kid glove treatment during a July 2014 interview on the morning show.