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October 15, 2005
Mike Wallace and Gun Control
Of Arms & the Law is reporting:
Cam Edwards of NRA News picked up an interesting story: news anchor Mike Wallace speaking at a Brady Campaign fundraiser (appropriately held at the French Embassy). He parodied Charlton Heston, whom he described as the "self-righteous enemy of the Jim and Sarah Brady Bunch," and announced he'd made a $250 donation to the Brady Center.
We all know there's a certain media bias at work, but you'd think they'd be less obvious about it....
Edwards sent an email on it to CBS's The Public Eye, which I gather is some manner of ombudsman blog, and here's their response.
Email CBS at publiceye@cbs.com and let them know what you think about Mike Wallace.
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on October 15, 2005 at 10:18 AM
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Remember that Donna Dees-Thomases, founder of the gun control group "Million Mom March," was a CBS publicist for Dan Rather and David Letterman. This was something that the main stream media tried to cover up.
See Media Research Center, May 12, 2000, and Free Republic, May 11, 2000.
As Mark Steyn wrote in "Made to Measure for the Media" (May 15, 2000. National Post):
...But "The Million Mom March was conceived last August in a gay resort community by a Hillary Clinton donor who's never organized anything larger than a Democratic senator's office" doesn't have quite the same ring, does it? And why should ABC, NBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times be expected to know any of this? Just because half her surname might have rung a vague bell is no reason to leap to conclusions and assume she's connected with Susan Thomases -- any more than it would be wise to assume from the other half of her name that she's related to Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots, whose Disco Duck was a Number One hit in 1976.
But, speaking of Casts of Idiots, what about CBS? By now, you may be curious about that "part-time job," as NBC coyly referred to it. A couple of waitressing shifts? A little secretarial work for the school district? No, Donna is a part-time publicist for David Letterman's Late Show. Before that, she was a full-time publicist for CBS news anchor Dan Rather. CBS This Morning was one of the first news shows to report the Million Mom March movement last September, when Hattie Kauffman interviewed Donna. "What," asked Hattie, "turns a mild-mannered suburban mom into an anti-gun activist?"
The correct answer is: "A leave of absence from my employer, CBS, which, by remarkable coincidence, is also your employer, Hattie." But that's not what Donna said. Only in the last week has CBS News begun disclosing that she's one of theirs....
It should also be noted that Viacom, which owns CBS, is a corporate sponsor of the MMM.
Donna Dees-Thomases was re-hired by CBS to control the PR damage caused by the "Rathergate" fake-memo scandal.
Posted by: Nobody Important on October 16, 2005 at 7:58 AM