The Media Hall Monitors repeatedly tell us that CBS’s New editorial direction is Trump-adjacent and “MAGA-friendly.” This is, of course, a shameless exaggeration most recently belied by a weird Sunday Morning report that injected climate change into the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. [some emphasis, links added]
Watch as climate reporter David Schecter and glaciologist Eric Steig close out the report by speculating about what Washington might say upon returning to the Delaware River in 2026, before CBS beats you over the head again with a still image mourning President Trump’s repeal of the EPA endangerment finding.
This is the conclusion arrived at after about five minutes of very weakly linking Washington to climate change.
The unspoken premise hanging over the report is, of course, that Washington would’ve not caught the British by surprise had the Delaware River not been iced at the time of the famous Christmas crossing: a weirdly framed “what-if.”
But Washington did not have the luxury of wondering what the Delaware River might look like 250 years after crossing it.
Washington did not have the luxury of speculating how climate change might affect his military strategy a quarter of a millennium after the fact.
No commander does, but this is the rhetorical duct tape and baling wire with which CBS injects climate propaganda into our observance of America’s 250th birthday.
For all the talk about editorial changes at CBS, there is still a long way to go.
Read rest and transcript at NewsBusters
