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You're right, Michelle, a picture is worth a thousand words.



Proving once again that she puts the "tic" in "Quixotic", Michelle is going after Mike Wallace for daring to support the Brady Foundation.

NRAnews.com blogger/radio host Cam Edwards wondered why CBS News allowed 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace to appear at an anti-gun Brady Center event late last month...

Edwards sent a letter to the CBS News blog asking about the network's ethics and disclosure policies governing such appearances.

CBS News Public Eye blogger Vaughn Ververs, mirabile dictu, has responded.
Here's an excerpt:

Since this is just the kind of question PE is here to help answer, I spoke with Linda Mason, the senior vice president for standards and special projects at CBS News and asked her what the policy is regarding these types of appearances. Here’s what she told me:

"We allow CBS correspondents to speak at various functions and occasionally show video. We have strict regulations that if a CBS correspondent becomes identifiable with one side of a controversial issue, they will not be allowed to cover that issue in the future."

I asked Mason whether this appearance by Wallace raised him to the level of being "identifiable" with the cause of gun control and she told me, "we’re looking into it to determine" that.

Edwards is not satisfied. Neither am I.

Ververs gets kudos for being responsive, but he's kidding himself if he or anyone else at CBS News thinks there's any doubt that Wallace has made himself "identifiable" with a cause.

If we use this standard, no rightwinger would ever appear on Fox News again.

Wait a minute...

Fox News, sine feces tauri, doesn't have an ombudsman. If anyone can relate the best e-mail to inquire about Fox News' bias policy, leave it in comments.