Pelley Opens 'CBS Evening News' by Calling Trump 'Divorced From Reality'

[mystery-ak]

As seen on Happening Now

"It has been a busy day for presidential statements divorced from reality."

Anchor Scott Pelley greeted "CBS Evening News" viewers with that line Monday night.

Pelley opened the show standing in front of a photo of President Trump which bore the words "Reality Check."

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[mountaineer]

wth. Even Cronkite wouldn't have sunk that low into the morass of cheap propagandizing.

[txradioguy]

wth. Even Cronkite wouldn't have sunk that low into the morass of cheap propagandizing.

He calls them dishonest and accuses them of running fake news...they push back with stuff like this.

[mountaineer]

He calls them dishonest and accuses them of running fake news...they push back with stuff like this.

To be fair, CBS, et al., started it. It's still a new low for those who pretend to be news reporters.

[Wingnut]

He calls them dishonest and accuses them of running fake news...they push back with stuff like this.

They both are racing to the low road as fast as they can.

[skeeter]

From swooning over every BM Obama had to b*tching incessantly about every Trump brain fart. Even the most politically disengaged must have noticed the gross disparity in coverage the two parties get.

[don-o]

And Trump be all like, "PLEASE don't throw me in that briar patch!"

@LonestarDream

[geronl]

Trump has been divorced from reality since he was a kid, but they were recently rumored to have touched hands once.

[txradioguy]

To be fair, CBS, et al., started it. It's still a new low for those who pretend to be news reporters.

Did they?  I mean he's been lashing out in Twitter tantrums whinging about how crappy the media treats him since he started running...and it hasn't stopped...this is just the beginning of the push back.

[Frank Cannon]

A CBS News anchor said something irrational about a GOP President? Unheard of....

[txradioguy]

A CBS News anchor said something irrational about a GOP President? Unheard of....

 

[Wingnut]

A CBS News anchor said something irrational about a GOP President? Unheard of....

[XenaLee]

The only reality check that Trump needs to wrap his brain around and get used to is the fact that the leftist media will be on 24/7 attack mode.  They did it with Bush and they'll double down on him now re: that treatment.  And his tweets of protest will only make them attack harder.... because it is proof that they're getting to him.  They view it as a success. 

[Hondo69]

According to Wikipedia's definition of a Hate Group:

A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other designated sector of society.

[Frank Cannon]

Some more of Scotty's reporting.....

On the January 2, 1996 edition of CBS Evening News, Pelley perhaps overdramatized the impact of the government shutdown when he opened his story this way: "In April, terrorists tried to kill them. Today politicians stopped their paychecks. In Oklahoma City's Social Security office, they're being ordered to work for nothing."

On the September 24, 2007 Early Show Pelley was very generous in his personal assessment of dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he hailed that the Iranian president as "incorruptible" and a "modest" and "friendly" guy as he told host Harry Smith: "The important thing, I think, Harry, to understand, he's described in the West as a madman, crazy, that's not the case. I found him to be as many politicians are, very engaging, very friendly, he's clearly not mad, he's sane. In fact, he's very wily I would tell you."
Pelley went on to praise: "He is genuinely religious, genuinely humble, there are no fancy clothes, fancy cars, he lives with his wife and his three children. They live in an apartment in Tehran. He is a very modest man and said to be absolutely incorruptible as well, he's a fascinating character."

During a May 9, 2010 profile of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on 60 Minutes, Pelley hailed that "she doesn't let anyone work harder' and "she's the only person in American politics with global star power close to" that held by Barack Obama, Pelley gushed: "A few Secretaries of State have been famous; none has been a first name celebrity like Hillary."

Back on the January 8, 2003 60 Minutes II, over video of a long line of people in Marietta, Ohio, Pelley ominously intoned: "The lines we found looked like they'd been taken from the pages of the Great Depression. It's not just the unemployed, we found plenty of people working full time but still not able to earn enough to keep hunger out the house. If you think you have a good idea of who's hungry in America today, come join the line. You'd never guess who you'd meet there."

Pelley's emotions-over-facts style of reporting included this line: "Pre- schoolers come here with their parents and play in boxes as empty as the day's want ads." Pelley asked, "When you look at this line, what do you see?" And answered the question himself: "You know what I see? Some pretty average looking Americans."

Back in 1993, the CBS Evening News didn't show viewers a single second of more than ten hours of taped interviews reporter Pelley conducted with Arkansas state troopers who alleged that a then Governor Bill Clinton used them to procure women for adulterous affairs. "We just felt, not to sound pompous in any way, but it didn't rise to the level of something that we wanted to put on the Evening News," Pelley later told political scientist Larry Sabato, in his book, co-authored with the Center for Media and Public Affairs' Robert Lichter, entitled: When Should the Watchdogs Bark?


http://www.mrc.org/profiles-bias/scott-pelley

[skeeter]

According to Wikipedia's definition of a Hate Group:

A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other designated sector of society.

"designated sector" curious choice of words.