CBS Fawns Over Book From NYT Reporters, Skirts Dirt on Democrats

Curtis Houck | May 2, 2022
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As part of their weeks-long media tour promoting their book This Shall Not Pass, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns joined Monday’s CBS Mornings and, as predicted, almost the entirety of their eight-minute-plus segment was devoted to trashing the Republican Party and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while all but ignoring attempts by the authors to bring up their reporting about infighting and pitfalls inside the Biden White House.

Socialist co-host Tony Dokoupil made clear it would be that way from a tease, saying the show would talk about how “the January 6 riot led Republican leaders who turn their backs on then President Trump, but not for long.”