‘Pow­er­ful Voic­es’: CBS Prais­es Pelosi’s Lega­cy in Soft­ball Inter­view

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 Hou …