CBS actually calls it right

A bit of an update on my comments on James Lee, this is a check on how the national news media handled it...and CBS actually said he was inspired by ALGORE,

Again if this guy was a Tea Party member or a known Republican it would be blamed on Sarah Palin already...but I gotta appreciate it when the media does do good work.  Thanks CBS for saying it straight.

Miracle on West 57th: CBS Ties Lee to Gore

Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, without Katie Couric, uniquely amongst the broadcast network evening newscasts tied Discovery Channel hostage-taker/bomber James Lee to Al Gore and...Reporter Wyatt Andrews relayed in his story on the incident in suburban DC:


In an anti-corporate protest two years ago, Lee was arrested while throwing cash outside of Discovery’s offices. He said in court he had been moved to save the planet, partly by Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

Neither ABC nor NBC mentioned Gore’s inspiration. (ABC’s Pierre Thomas on World News: Lee “has protested at the Discovery Channel repeatedly, raising concerns about the environment and over-population.” NBC’s Tom Costello on Nightly News referred to Lee “handing out a rambling leaflet that called on Discovery to devote more programming to global warming and animal extinction.”)