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During their Halloween (Wednesday) night broadcast, CBS’s costume surely wasn’t that of an unbiased news organization. During CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor noted that “at least six candidates in this midterm election are campaigning under a legal or ethics cloud, including criminal indictments, an assault conviction, investigations, and a severe admonishment by Congressional Ethics Committees.” But when they flashed images of the candidates, only one of them was a Democrat.
As the Media Research Center had previously reported, there were at least six scandals involving Democrats the broadcast networks were flat-out ignoring. Absent from CBS’s notation were the corruption scandals swirling around Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (D) (received Hamilton tickets from FBI agents) and the domestic violence allegations against Minnesota Attorney General candidate Congressman Keith Ellison (D).
This was clearly all part of the liberal media’s spin of the elections ahead of the midterms as the MRC also extensively documented.
The only Democrat CBS was willing to show viewers Wednesday was New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who underwent a corruption trial which ended in a mistrial. He was later admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee. The other five candidates CBS noted were Republicans, but out of those the only one they dove into was the race for California 50.
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