{"id":1728613,"date":"2022-11-07T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728613"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:18:48","slug":"watch-cbs-news-gives-historian-meacham-platform-to-echo-white-house-spin-without-disclosing-work-on-biden-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cbs-news-gives-historian-meacham-platform-to-echo-white-house-spin-without-disclosing-work-on-biden-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: CBS News Gives Historian Meacham Platform To Echo White House Spin Without Disclosing Work on Biden Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-cbs-news-gives-historian-meacham-platform-to-echo-white-house-spin-without-disclosing-work-on-biden-speeches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Historian Jon Meacham trumpeted President Joe Biden\u2019s election message on CBS days before the midterms without disclosing his work advising the president.<\/p>\n<p>Biden last week framed the 2022 election as a choice between autocratic rule by &#8220;extreme MAGA Republicans&#8221; and &#8220;democracy itself.&#8221; Meacham, who allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/joe-biden-election-democracy-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-wrote<\/a> the speech, repeated many of the same points on CBS\u2019s <em>Sunday Morning, <\/em>warning voters that the fate of democracy was at stake in the midterms. Neither CBS nor Meacham mentioned his work as an adviser to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest instance of Meacham cloaking Biden\u2019s talking points as unbiased commentary. During an appearance on MSNBC in November 2020, Meacham praised Biden\u2019s acceptance speech as &#8220;poetic&#8221; without disclosing that he helped draft the speech. The network released Meacham as a paid contributor after the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/09\/us\/politics\/jon-meacham-biden-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on his &#8220;hand in crafting&#8221; many of Biden\u2019s campaign speeches. He has since been allowed back on MSNBC as a guest.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Meacham declined to comment to the <em>Times<\/em> when asked about his involvement in crafting Biden\u2019s speeches. But national media outlets have dubbed Meacham Biden\u2019s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/03\/25\/biden-historians-meeting-filibuster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historical<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/09\/jon-meacham-joe-biden-fdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">muse<\/a>,&#8221; and the president has touted their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>During a presidential town hall in February 2021, Biden said Meacham <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/se\/date\/2021-02-16\/segment\/01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helped him decorate<\/a> the Oval Office with paintings of former presidents including Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/biden-election-midterms-trump.html?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> this week that Biden brought a copy of Meacham\u2019s new biography of Abraham Lincoln on the campaign trail. Meacham on Sunday said Americans who vote to uphold &#8220;democracy&#8221; are taking up Lincoln\u2019s quest to preserve the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Meacham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2022\/01\/11\/the-biden-sit-down-that-split-pbs-495684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fed Biden lines<\/a> for a speech in Atlanta that accused Republicans of being in league with racist segregationists if they opposed Democrats\u2019 federal voting legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?&#8221; Biden said of his opponents. &#8220;Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meacham appeared again on MSNBC Monday morning to celebrate Biden\u2019s ambitious agenda as president, which he insisted was &#8220;not a partisan point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t have a partisan brain,&#8221; Meacham <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimJGraham\/status\/1589613974680649730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. He was not introduced as an adviser to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC did not respond to a request for comment about the appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian Jon Meacham trumpeted President Joe Biden\u2019s election message on CBS days before the midterms without disclosing his work advising the president.<br \/>\nThe post WATCH: CBS News Gives Historian Meacham Platform To Echo White House Spin Without Disclosing Work on Biden Speeches appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":1728616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}