Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, CBS News’s flagship newscasts were out of control in both downplaying the destruction of property and riots in Los Angeles by far-left, anti-American thugs, but at the same time strongly implied Marines in the city could lead to them shooting dead innocent Americans like at Kent State in 1970 and also used the chance to relitigate an event they still insist we spend free time thinking about: January 6.

Co-anchor John Dickerson started Tuesday’s CBS Evening News with a new leftist talking point about the cost of deploying the military to Los Angeles and co-anchor Maurice DuBois used the word “turbulently” to describe the riots in recent days.

Take notice too of DuBois interviewing a Marine veteran who came down on the side of foreigners:

Towards the end of that video, DuBois also rolled out the leftist talking point that these “skirmishes” are much ado about nothing in scale:

While scenes like this are being broadcast prominently around the world, here's some context. It's all happening in a small part of downtown LA, at and around city hall and the federal building where detainees from ICE raids have been taken just a few blocks in a county of nearly 10 million people.

Their argument was and remains flawed. One could apply that to just about any major story of unrest or even terror attack in recent history. Whether it’s most buildings in Manhattan survived 9/11 or only one major building was blown up in Oklahoma City, this attempt to minimize the situation has partisan hackery written all over it.

Senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe had this concerning segment with Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, doomcasting Marines in Los Angeles might slaughter innocents:

The partisan tomfoolery continued on CBS Evening News Plus. Correspondent Carter Evans doubled down on dismissing the violence as minimal:

Next came the truly insane segment with the January 6 report from correspondent Scott MacFarlane, whom one must wonder if the man thinks about anything else in life:

CBS also failed the labeling bias test when it, for the second day in a row, welcomed back a senior official at the far-left Brennan Center for Justice (named after one of the most liberal Supreme Court justices in American history):

Anchor John Dickerson closed the show with another pompous liberal screed masquerading as a history lesson:

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings led off with co-host Gayle King making sure the table was set with the premise the operative word to describe the “protests” is “peacefully”:

Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti was out in the streets and did his part to help push the left’s new narrative the presence of military of any kind were triggering and could antagonize violence or worse (click “expand”):

VIGLIOTTI: There is a curfew in effect. It remains in effect this morning and it has been effective. Much calmer overnight than previous nights. The LAPD confirming dozens were arrested.

CROWD: Peaceful protest!

VIGLIOTTI: Small groups of protesters gathered in downtown Los Angeles were quickly broken up at the start of curfew Tuesday night with a show of force by LA police officers. [CHEERS] Earlier, nearly 100 people were arrested, detained, and loaded onto LAPD buses for failing to disperse. The protests, a reaction to President Trump's immigration crackdown.

(....)

VIGLIOTTI: [National Guards troops] very presence alone has been attracting protesters like this crowd.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE PROTESTER: I see this as an unlawful invasion of California sovereignty.

(....)

GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA): We honor their service. We honor their bravery. But we do not want our streets militarized by our own armed forces.

VIGLIOTTI [TO MCDONNELL]: The Marines are here, they are used to war zones.

LAPD CHIEF JIM MCDONNELL: Mmhmm.

VIGLIOTTI [TO MCDONNELL]: Are you concerned about them interfacing with protesters?

MCDONNELL: Anytime anybody comes in this city and we're not clear what roles and responsibilities are there's a concern. I worry for our own people.

O’Keefe returned from the night before and played more of his Hagel interview, but interestingly omitted the Kent State reference. Nonetheless, the thesis still remained about Marines being unprepared and could be quick to the trigger:

Worse yet, MacFarlane resufaced with an updated January 6 segment, thanks in part to California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s speech arguing Trump doesn’t actually care about police based on his actions from January 6, 2021:

To see the relevant CBS transcripts from June 10 and 11, click here (for CBS Evening News), here (for CBS Evening News Plus), and here (for CBS Mornings).