CBS Evening News

Private Health Insurance Companies 'Death Panels'
For once, mainstream journalists did not retreat to the studied neutrality of quoting dueling antagonists.
They tried to perform last rites on the ludicrous claim about President Obama’s death panels, telling Sarah Palin, in effect, you’ve got to quit making things up.
But it didn’t matter. The story refused to die.

During Sarah Palin’s interview on Monday, CBS reporter Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin what newspapers and magazines she read to inform her worldview before being tapped as John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate. Sarah Palin’s answer was revealed: “most of them,” “all of ‘em,” and “any of ‘em.”
Sarah Palin would not, or could not, name [...]

Tonight Governor Sarah Palin appeared on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin briefly discussed  John McCain’s call for greater oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the two beleaguered mortgage houses - as evidence that John McCain doesn’t always shy from a firmer governmental regulatory role in the economy. But when [...]