VETS PREFER BUSH - CBS FINALLY READS ITS POLL
Stinging Nettle is complaining about a CBS story headlined "CBS Poll: Vets Favor Bush". This, of course, isn't news. Anyone who actually read the entire CBS Poll when it was released on May 24 knew about those numbers. But it took liberal CBS a week to notice. I'm conservative, and those numbers jumped out at me early, and I said at the time, "And CBS ignored another part of their poll, showing that veterans prefer Bush by a greater margin than the general[] electorate -- that's something I'd have highlighted as an editor." I guess liberals were content if CBS just never mentioned them.

But DrFrankLives asks "Quick, what is the main news in this story?", answering his question with the question: "Is it 'Veterans prefer Bush' or 'Public prefers Kerry 49-41'?"

No, DrFrank, the main news from that poll was trumpeted over a week ago by CBS, when it said "Poll: Iraq Taking Toll On Bush". DrFrank noticed and cheered the story, making no complaint about CBS's editorial decision to highlight Bush's low approval ratings.

CBS's second headlining story on the May 23rd poll continued to focus on the Kerry positive and the Bush negative, delving into the world of fantasy: "Poll: McCain/Kerry Ticket A Winner".

But we are informed today by the Stinging-Nettle that CBS can be exonerated of any charges of leaning to port because it took them 12 days to find what I saw right away, that John "I fought in Vietnam" Kerry is not the preferred choice of veterans.

Liberals often complain that conservatives are stuck in the past and want to bring it back. Well, at least we can remember it.