Before the impeachment proceedings against Bubba were started, the media had been sort of complacent in previous years in disparaging Bubba's administration.
But, when the impeachment fever got going in the halls of the GOP, it quickly infected most of the radio and tv "stars" of the network news media.
Tom Brokaw led the way for NBC, saying that he had no doubt that Bubba would be impeached in the Senate, and that was before Christmas of 1998 when he was talking in a "matter of fact" manner about it on Dave Letterman's tv program.
Then, in 2000, Brokaw was one of the first network news anchors to agree with the Supreme Court's decision in December to place George Dubya in the White House in January.
After September of 2001, Brokaw repeated every single lie the Bush admin spewed about the attacks on September 11th, without commentary.
For his efforts, in 2002 Brokaw was rewarded with "the get", what they refer to in the news industry as "the big interview", when he was granted a very long and scripted interview with Dubya Bush as they strolled alongside each other walking in a park talking about the attacks on America on the 1st anniversary of 9/11.
In 2006, when the mid-term elections results were coming in, at the very moment when it was announced that John Tester had just been projected by NBC as the winner of the contested Senate seat held by Republican Conrad Burns in Montana -- effectively giving the Democrats control of the Senate for the first time in a dozen years -- Brokaw spun around in his chair looking for someone to talk to that could explain how that result happened, as he muttered, "There must be something wrong here" in to the microphone.
Brokaw said that twice before they cut off his mike.
What was wrong was the fact that Brokaw hadn't given a single Democrat a fair and unbiased news report for the previous 20 years!!
Dan Rather had already been disparaged for 10 years by the time Bubba was impeached by the rightwing echo chamber, led by Rush Limbaugh and repeated by every rightwing shit-slinging whackjob on the radio and cable tv.
Dan Rather was the most despised news reporter of the Republican party for over 35 years before Bubba's impeachment trial. Later, Rather paid the price for investigating George Dubya's military record in 2004 by being demoted, dismissed, and then fired by CBS for telling the truth about Bush.
Peter Jennings was dismissed as a casual observer of events by the rightwing GOP media machine, and he was never allowed to ever interview any of the major players because he had an annoying habit of asking them hard questions that had not been "pre-approved" by the person being interviewed. Jennings also asked for facts to back up their statements, and as we all know, Republicans hate having to use facts.
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