We’ve been writing a lot about the biased CBS 60 Minutes report about Ron DeSantis, including how they deceptively edited a video debunking a pay to play claim they were trying to make.

But that wasn’t the only way recently that CBS stepped over the line, as I reported. CBS News wrote a piece actually encouraging activism against states like Georgia titled “3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting law,” listing the things that people could do to fight the law, including not donating to the Republicans who co-sponsored it.

Now CNBC sounds like it’s also heading in the same direction, with their piece on companies which hadn’t issued statements on Florida’s “restrictive voting bills.”

NEW: @Disney @GEICO @Expedia @WeAreGeo and others backed Florida lawmakers who are now sponsoring restrictive voting bills. Since 2018 thousands of dollars have flowed from these corporations into the campaigns of Florida lawmakers sponsoring the billshttps://t.co/AnfrKRg4kP

— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) April 5, 2021

NEW: None of these corporations responded to requests for comment on where they stand on these voting proposals.
– Some of the bills were introduced as recently as March, while another was filed right after the Capitol Hill riothttps://t.co/r32CLg243p

— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) April 5, 2021

Why report on people who haven’t made statements except to try to stampede them into making a statement? The result would be to have people target them and/or get them not to contribute to Republicans. It’s waving a flag, essentially saying to pressure these folks next. Not to mention that in their long article on the subject, while they list some of the things in the bill, they don’t explain how any of the things constitute voter suppression. How is making sure that a drop box is secure, for example, inhibiting voters in any way? Unless of course you don’t want the drop box to be secure or want to tamper with it, then yes, it’s inhibiting cheating.

The entire @NBCNews universe is stacked with political activists masquerading as journalists.

— MarkHyman (@MarkHyman) April 5, 2021

Political strategist Tim Cameron also made a great point about the apparent effort to target companies like Disney with such pressure. He noted that they were missing a company: CNBC’s parent company, Comcast Corporation, since they’ve also similarly donated to Florida politicians.

Why did you not include CNBC’s parent company, Comcast Corporation, in your story since they have a similar donation record to Florida politicians? Is it violation of ethics to fail to disclose this in this your story while attacking a direct corporate competitor? pic.twitter.com/INlzUx6IkK

— Tim Cameron (@TimCameron) April 5, 2021

Comcast/NBC Universal was the 3rd highest donor according the report used for your story. Disney isn’t even in the Top 25. So you attack them and leave your employer completely out of your story? pic.twitter.com/l1sAe7aYEK

— Tim Cameron (@TimCameron) April 5, 2021

Of course the reason is clear, because the point isn’t about the donation or the company, it’s about trying to shame and harm Republicans in Florida, an increasingly red state. It’s the same reason that the MLB moved the All Star from Georgia to Colorado when their election law also has things which Democrats have claimed are somehow objectionable in the Georgia law. It was all about attacking Republicans.

HT: Twitchy