CNN's Kyra Phillips promised to "dip in" to Bush appearance at Burns rally if he mentioned "Iraq, John Kerry, other big issues in the news"
On the November 2 edition of CNN Newsroom, while showing a live feed of President Bush's appearance at a campaign rally for Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) in his race for re-election against Democrat John Tester, anchor Kyra Phillips asserted that CNN would "monitor what the president says" and that the network would "dip in" to coverage of the rally it the president "starts talking about Iraq, [Sen.] John Kerry [D-MA], other big issues in the news." Media Matters for America has extensively documented (here, here, and here) CNN and other media outlets' insistence upon treating Kerry's "botched joke" as a "big issue in the news." Perhaps most notably, Media Matters documented that the November 1 edition of CNN's Your World Today devoted 16 minutes to live coverage of a press briefing by White House press secretary Tony Snow, focusing on the controversy over Kerry's recent remark about Iraq. When questions turned to President Bush's Iraq policy, however, CNN cut away from live coverage after two minutes.
From the 1 p.m. EST November 2 edition of CNN Newsroom:
PHILLIPS: Monitoring the president right now in Billings, Montana. He's actually there campaigning for Senator Conrad Burns, the incumbent in trouble against Democrat John Tester. We're going to monitor what the president says and dip in, of course, if he starts talking about Iraq, John Kerry, other big issues in the news.
They just want to play this "tabloid" hate game. MSM- Kerry apologized, move on.
What about the Bush lies? Why no questions?
Kyra's long standing support for anything Bush is well established. The only solace to be taken here is that her one real claim to fame is broadcasting from a bathroom stall.
Where she did her best work and produced her most useful product
she meant to say media created issues, just like the dean scream, kerry is a flip flopper, gore exaggerates. meanwhile scandal after scandal by the bush administration goes unnoticed. how is that bush's drunk driving conviction came to light by a private citizen? wouldn't you assume that the press would be looking into a candidate's background and checking records. it's not like he was arrested in bumfork, nebraska. his family had property in that area of maine for many years. of course, in florida in 2000, the press sat in tallahassee and repeated the republican talking points about the votes being counted "five or six" times. meanwhile they ignored the fact that in gore leaning counties, the gop had lawyers telling counting boards that if they counted overseas votes after the legal date they could go to jail. and in the bush leaning counties their lawyers said if they discarded any votes, even after the date,....they could go to jail.