Bill Schneider: Jerk

Today on CNN's Inside Politics, Bill Schneider (an American Enterprise Institute fellow masquerading as an objective journalist) ran a report about the "sunny" economic reports coming out of the Bush Administration, based on several vagaries, poll numbers and half-truths. Then, he ended with a whopper: "Amazingly, nobody is reporting this. A study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs shows that the broadcast media is not talking about the Bush economic recovery. It's all Iraq."

Yeah, nobody in the media's talking about it. You just said that on CNN at 3:30 in the afternoon on its flagship political show.

Judy Woodruff had to reveal the truth in spite of herself: "But we're talking about it."

This comes on the heels of Salon's revelation that CNN was easily the leader in Reagan retrospectives, with 180 segments on the former President in 7 days. I swear they had some ancient Reagan cabinet member or mid-80s footage of The Gipper walking toward Air Force One every time I turned on the TV last week. So-Called-Liberal-Media indeed.