This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features new House Speaker Paul Ryan getting the treatment from CBS News Anchor Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes.
On Sunday’s show, Pelley said to Ryan:
“On your first day as Speaker you said you were going to wipe the slate clean. And then in your very first news conference you said the president has, quote, ‘Proven himself untrustworthy on immigration.’ That’s not wiping the slate clean, that’s blowing chalk dust in the President’s face.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “President Obama has a long record of, to use Obama’s favorite term, ‘unprecedented’ actions which demonstrate his contempt for Congress. Yet to Pelley, it’s a few words from Ryan which are worthy of censure.”
Rating: Three out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
