It seems that with the unfolding of another election year, book tours are often a major campaigning tool. Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (CA) was invited on CBS Mornings as a key guest for the morning show. Yet just as Dr. Jill Biden, and Chelsea Clinton have done in the past, what started out as an interview quickly became CBS and Pelosi’s chance to campaign.
It’s worth noting the attitude with which CBS approached the interview and the very clear bias from the beginning. Nancy Pelosi was not an apolitical figure but the face of the Democratic Party as she was speaker of the House for eight years and was in Congress for nearly 40.
The excitement shown by co-host Gayle King betrayed any idea of the interaction being anything other than glorification:
As the interview commenced, not only was Pelosi given many softball questions, but was able to preach uninterruptedly against…
