Liberal Media Scream: Mike Johnson cuts off CBS bedwetting – Washington Examiner
The article discusses a recent report from CBS that compares the current political climate under President Donald trump to the Watergate scandal, suggesting that America is experiencing a constitutional crisis. CBS News anchor Robert Costa highlighted historical parallels, recalling how Nixon faced standoffs with the Justice Department and courts. Many Democrats, including former Congressman Julian Castro and Senator Elissa Slotkin, view TrumpS use of executive power as a threat to constitutional norms, describing it as a perhaps serious crisis.
In contrast, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) challenges this narrative, asserting that he is not uncomfortable with the current situation, while many republicans appear to support Trump’s actions, including substantial changes to federal agencies and executive orders. Media critic Brent Baker suggests that the media is eager to draw parallels with Watergate and create a scandal narrative, despite the lack of substantial evidence for such claims. The report concludes with a rating from the Media Research Center that reflects the critical tone of the coverage, labeling it as a “Liberal Media scream.”
Liberal Media Scream: Mike Johnson cuts off CBS bedwetting
It took over two years for the Nixon-era Watergate scandal to bring on the constitutional crisis that led a president to resign. But hearing CBS describe President Donald Trump’s first month of moves the network doesn’t like shows this generation’s Watergate has already arrived.
Even more than the Hollywood whining of Jane Fonda and others at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Jane Pauley’s CBS News Sunday Morning jumped head first into decrying Trump’s moves promised during a year on the campaign trail to drain the swamp as a constitutional crisis.
“More than a half-century ago,” said CBS’s Robert Costa, “as the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Department and the courts” that the media declared a “constitutional crisis.”
Now, he added, “that term, constitutional crisis, is back.”
But amid the name-calling and historical hyperventilating in the show’s main story, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered a sense of calm and perspective.
“I have been asked so many times, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not,” he said, making the CBS report our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
From CBS News Sunday Morning:
JANE PAULEY: With judges across the country pushing back against some of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive orders, there are those who ask: What would happen if the White House defies the courts and simply moves ahead with its plans? We’ve asked our Robert Costa to make some inquiries.
ROGER MUDD, CBS ANCHOR, NOV. 4, 1973: Despite his powers as chief executive, his future is really in the hands of the other two branches of government: the courts and the Congress.
ROBERT COSTA: More than a half-century ago, as the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Department and the courts.
DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: In breathtaking succession tonight, the following historic events occurred. The president of the United States demanded that the attorney general fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The attorney general refused and resigned.
COSTA: The tensions brought a certain phrase to the fore of the American conversation.
JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: The country in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history.
COSTA: Now that term, ‘constitutional crisis,’ is back.
JULIAN CASTRO, former House Democrat from Texas: We’re headed toward a constitutional crisis.
U.S. SENATOR ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): We’re fast barreling toward a constitutional crisis.
COSTA: Many Democrats are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s use of executive power.
U.S. REP. SEAN CASTEN (D-ILL): The actions that Musk and his IT goons have taken, they’re illegal.
COSTA: And some fear that Trump, who has shattered norms and who worked relentlessly to try to overturn the 2020 election, cannot be counted on to follow the courts.
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): I have been asked so many times, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not.
COSTA: Most Republicans are shrugging off talk of a crisis. In fact, many are cheering as Trump overhauls the Justice Department and FBI, works with Elon Musk to fire thousands of federal employees and signs piles of executive orders.
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Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “You know it’s a media-fueled effort to create a scandal when the journalist in question regurgitates Watergate. It’s what Costa and the Washington press corps see as their halcyon days of glory. And if the supposed scandal matches a current liberal Democratic talking point, so much the better, despite the lack of any real substance to the fearmongering.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
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