Look who Newsbusters calls a “moderate”

Newsbusters' Matthew Balan complains:

CNN's Candy Crowley neglected to include sound bites from conservatives during a report about Sarah Palin on Tuesday's American Morning, other than from the former Alaska governor herself. While Crowley did acknowledge the widespread support that Palin has among conservative Republicans, she only used clips from moderate commentator David Frum, Democrat Bill Owens, and colleague Wolf Blitzer. [Emphasis added]

David Frum has worked as a speechwriter for George W. Bush, a senior fellow at the right-wing Manhattan Institute, and an editor for the right-wing editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. He has been an advisor to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign and a contributing editor to National Review. He is a resident fellow at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, and serves on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition. He supported John McCain's presidential campaign, and has written books titled “Dead Right,” “What's Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America,” “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush,” “Comeback: Conservatism that can win again.” And he co-wrote a book with Richard Perle.

But Newsbusters' Matthew Balan says Frum isn't a conservative; he's a moderate, and that CNN's report therefore failed to fearture any soundbites from conservatives. Oh, except Sarah Palin.

Another, more sane, way to look at the report would be to say it featured clips of two conservatives, Frum and Palin, and only one progressive, Democrat Bill Owens.

Oh, and that Owens clip? Here it is, in its entirety:

CONGRESSMAN-ELECT BILL OWENS: Thank you very much.

Oh, the bias!