CBS Seems Bummed That Sarah Palin Is Still Popular

The Headline should have read, "Despite All We Have Done To Ruin Her - Sarah Palin Is Still Popular."

The Real Headline on CBS.Com was almost as bad, "Palin Popularity High Despite Latest News."

The article is worse. It is written based on a story that aired on the CBS Morning Show (so at least nobody saw it).

A recent poll shows that Sarah Palin's popularity is over 60 percent in Alaska. A high water mark most Governor's would die for.

But the article lists a bevy of tawdry stories that Sarah Palin herself has no control over - Levi Johnston on Tyra Bank's show - her husband's hals sister getting arrested - John McCain's reluctance to commit to a 2012 candidate.

So where is the poll? The very last line of the story.

And the quote from the pollster is, of course, negative.
Bias is shown in subtle ways. This latest article by CBS is dripping with it.

It has been like this at CBS for years. It is so bad that one of their own coorespondents wrote a book at te liberal bias that infests the building at West 57the Street in Mahattan.

It got even worse after they fire Barnard Goldberg for having the guts to write the book. They replaced the liberal and biased Dan Rather with the even more liberal and more biased Katie Couric. And, believe me, it was no easy tsk to find someone to the left of Dan.

It is no wonder network news is dying a slow death and CBS is in a deep last place. I know, I know, the Democrats claimed Katie Couric had "renewed popularity" after the hatchet jon on Sarah Palin. They don't mention that she is still way behind ABC and NBC in the ratings.

I don't want to send you to the CBS website. It will just encourage them to write more BS like this (after all its part of their name.) So here is the unedited article:

Palin Popularity High Despite Latest News
Hovering At 60 Percent At Home; Negative News On Extended Family, Acquaintances Not Hurting Her
WASILLA, Alaska, April 6, 2009

(CBS) Sarah Palin insists she's been focusing on one thing -- governing Alaska -- since the presidential election.

But, observes Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman, it's been hard to ignore the negative headlines swirling around her extended family and acquaintances in recent weeks.

Eyebrows were raised when Levi Johnston, the ex-fiancé of Palin's daughter, Bristol, and father of their son, Tripp, told Tyra Banks on Banks' talk show he's "pretty sure" the Alaska governor knew he and Bristol were having sex.

Johnston also admitted, after some prodding by Banks, that he and Bristol only practiced safe sex "most of the time."

He also claims Bristol has been refusing to let him take their baby, Tripp, out alone, a charge flatly denied by the Palin family. A spokesperson calls the claims "flat-out lies, gross exaggeration, and even distortion of their relationship."

Bristol herself told Fox News abstinence "isn't realistic" for teens.

Word came last month that Bristol and Johnston had broken up.

Another piece of negative news hitting close to home involved the recent arrest on felony burglary charges in Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska of her sister-in-law.

Ted Turcott told Kauffman he was home alone when he heard a stranger enter his home. So he hid in the bathroom with a gun.

"I said, 'Lady, you're in big trouble," ' Turcott recalled for Kauffman. "I kept telling her to sit down and she didn't listen. She was the coolest woman you've ever seen in your life."

Add to the personal drama a political hit from former running mate John McCain, who hedged on endorsing her for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination when given the chance on "Meet he Press" last month, saying he'd "have to see who the candidates are and what the situation is at the time."

Back in December, Levi Johnston's mother was hit with six felony drug charges in Alaska.

So, is all this airing of Palin-related real and alleged dirty laundry drown out her political message?

Pollster Ivan Moore told Kauffman Palin "brought this all on herself by making her kids an issue last year."

But, adds Kauffman, Palins' approval rating is over 60 percent in Alaska, so she's hardly out in the cold among her home state's voters.