While watching CSI: Miami (I know, so shoot me), the WUSA News at 11 bumper was:
"Tonight, a former Klan member endorses Barack Obama"
The former Klan member in question: West Virginia Senator and President Pro Tem Robert Byrd.
This is the news teaser? Seriously?
Forget that he is the most senior member of the U.S. Senate.
Forget that he is President Pro Tem of the Senate and 3 heartbeats away from the White House himself and a relentless critic of this folly of war.
Forget that he is one of the few people I know who has the audacity to carry a copy of the U.S. Constitution in his pocket and actual attempts to follow it.
No, how do they tease the endorsement, by remembering that he was once a member of the Klan. Yep, he was. Well shame on him for his bad acts as a young man. God forbid we not let some of the other people in power forget their youthful indiscretions.
Shame on WUSA and shame on CBS for this kind of crap.
Call them and tell them that this isn't journalism - 202.895.5999