Harry Smith on Sunday actually asked an anti-Arizona SB-1070 advocate whether or not the United States government should stem the flow of illegal immigrants into America.

Subbing for Bob Schieffer on CBS’s "Face the Nation," Smith invited on Thomas Saenz, the head of the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund, a pro-illegal immigrant group.

Early in the segment, Smith asked his guest, "Do you feel like the federal government is doing enough to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and — or should it?"

Moments later, Schieffer asked Saenz if he felt Arizona’s new immigration law was "anti-Hispanic" (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):

HARRY SMITH, HOST: Now let’s turn to a top opponent of the Arizona law, Thomas Saenz president of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund. He is in Los Angeles this morning. Good morning, Sir.

PBS recently responded to accusations of a liberal slant to its July 23 Need to Know program which featured satirist Andy Borowitz making fun of Sarah Palin’s intelligence as PBS ombudsman claimed that, because the July 16 episode had featured a segment that was critical of President Obama, the show in reality had been balanced in going after public political figures. According to TVNewser, Need to Know’s executive producer, Shelley Lewis, argued: "Is a little joking about Ms. Palin’s penchant for malaprops really such a big deal? Last week, editorial cartoonist Steve Brodner was pretty tough on President Obama, and we heard plenty from Obama fans about how unfair we were, how right-wing we were, etc. We do try to have some fun at both sides’ expense…"

Hey, it’s Friday night. Time to kick back and enjoy some—unintentional—humor, courtesy Ed Schultz.

Big Ed sees soup lines around the corner if we "continue to follow the Republicans" [sic].  His solution to stave off disaster?  The extension of unemployment benefits. . .  . "endlessly."

Say Ed, are you aware that FDR’s New Deal socialism failed to dent the Depression?

ED SCHULTZ: You know, when I was growing up in the ’60s–I was eight, nine, ten, eleven years old–and my dad, who went through the Depression, and went through World War II and served, he used to sit at the dinner table and tell us that we wouldn’t have a depression in this country because we have got some kind of safety nets put in place now and we won’t have have the kind of the kind of economic problems we had when the crash of ’29 took place.

So much for the illusion of state’s rights.

Bret Baier took on former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean for accusing Chris Wallace of lying about Fox News’s coverage of the Shirley Sherrod affair.

As NewsBusters previously reported, Dean pointed his pathetically biased and accusatory finger at FNC while a guest on "Fox News Sunday" only to have it marvelously slapped down by Wallace.

The following day in the friendly confines of MSNBC’s "The Ed Show," the former Vermont governor said, "I happen to like Chris Wallace, but he was really not being exactly accurate when he talked about ‘We didn`t say one word about this before the secretary of Agriculture fired her.’ The fact of the matter is they were pushing this story very, very hard all day."

On Wednesday’s "Special Report," Baier struck back and struck back hard using a time lapse video to prove Dean completely wrong (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t our friend Johnny Dollar):  

Tucker Carlson’s website The Daily Caller has unearthed a treasure trove of liberal journalists talking (nastily) to themselves in a private E-mail list about how they should use their media power to remake the world in their image.

The funniest thing about this expose of “JournoList” was witnessing journalists say it was unfair to leak these e-mails when reporters had an “expectation of privacy.” More than 90,000 pages of secret documents on Afghanistan have been leaked and journalists are tripping over each other in a mad stampede to cover the story. Everyone should laugh heartily at leak-devouring journalists getting a fistful of their own bitter pills.

Chris Matthews on Monday got a much-needed lesson from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on how tax hikes impact the budget as well as the economy.

"Congressman Ryan, is there any tax role for reducing our $1.4 trillion to $1.7 trillion debt this year — deficit this year?" Matthews asked during the 5PM installment of MSNBC’s "Hardball." "Is there any role in tax increasing to help do that job?"

When Ryan gave an answer Matthews didn’t like, the host arrogantly responded, "So, you won`t cut — you won`t raise taxes and you won`t cut spending…All this bitching about the deficit doesn`t mean squat, because you won`t do either, raise taxes or reduce spending."

With the ball nicely teed up, Ryan unleashed a drive down the middle of the fairway that would make Tiger Woods proud (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t Twitter’s @LFRGary):  

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Typical Liberal thugary, if you can’t avoid talking about the issues call someone a name use the police to be your strong arm.

Seeya

The Unknown Blogger

Daniel Schorr’s passing on Friday, at age 93, reminded me of the kind of assaults CBS News unleashed on conservatives before there were any countervailing forums available. A 2001 Weekly Standard article (nine years in my “pending” file!) detailed a particularly vicious left-wing hit piece he narrated in 1964 which linked Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater with neo-Nazis in Germany, a CBS Evening News story notorious enough to earn a mention – if without any censure – in the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries.

In a June of 2001 Weekly Standard review of a memoir by Schorr about his years with CBS, CNN and NPR, Andrew Ferguson recited the piece which aired during the GOP’s convention: