CBS Omits Tea Partier’s Face-off With Obama; Played Up ‘Voter Anger’ at Romney
On Monday's CBS Evening News and Tuesday's Early Show, CBS failed to cover an Iowa Tea Party activist's confrontation with President Obama. Both ABC's GMA and NBC's Today mentioned the encounter. Just days earlier, CBS and ABC spotlighted how left-wing protesters heckled Mitt Romney at an Iowa appearance and how the Republican apparently made a ” gaffe ” in reply. NBC correspondent Chuck Todd noted the “heated exchange” between Tea Partier Ryan Rhodes and the President midway through his report just after the top of the 7 am Eastern hour of Today: TODD: In one heated exchange – PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I know it's not going to work if you just stand up when I ask everybody to raise their hand. TODD: The head of the Iowa Tea Party jeered the President over unsubstantiated reports that Vice President Biden referred to the Tea Party as 'terrorists.' And the two even had words after the event. In an interview with NBC News, Ryan Rhodes explained why he came. RYAN RHODES: The reason I came here was because I wanted to see what he was going to have to say. And I didn't expect anything different, continued blaming of the other side. At about the same time, on Good Morning America, ABC's Jake Tapper reported on the face-off: TAPPER: … President Obama came face to face with the same unruly Tea Party style that Governor [Rick] Perry was channeling, when some Iowa Tea Partiers confronted him. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN 1: He was the second person in your administration to call the right-wing people terrorists.
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