Meet Your Liberal Media: Stossel Sleaze Edition

John "Smackdown" Stossel's latest ABC propaganda fest, concerning "Popularly Reported Misconceptions," contained slams on the Democratic Party. According to ABC's web summary of the piece, Stossel claimed: "We've all heard this one during the presidential campaign. When it comes to income taxes, the Democratic presidential candidates keep telling us, the rich don't pay enough."

The program featured, in the role of putative expert, "Steve Moore," who was identified as "co-author of Things are Getting Better All The Time." (Dumbass actually got the title wrong.) Moore was not identified as the president of the right-wing Club for Growth, which ran those anti-Dean "left wing freak show" ads in Iowa.

To be sure, "Smackdown" Stossel didn't quote Moore on the tax equity issue. Moore was quoted as saying that "[m]ost families don't have to have both parents working. They do this by choice." He also criticized Republicans as big spenders. But, at least on the ABC website, Stossel presents Moore as an objective expert rather than the right-wing propagandist and political activist he is.