In a July 13 NewsBusters post about NBC coverage of the impending implementation of an energy efficiency law that will require light bulbs to be more efficient, Brad Wilmouth was upset that Brian Williams “neglected to note that Democrats controlled Congress in 2007 as he introduced the report by informing viewers that President Bush signed the bill into law that year.”
Um … so? Contradictory to Wilmouth’s attempt to create a partisan wedge that doesn’t exist, it seems that the fact that Bush signed the bill was evidence that it had some measure of bipartisan support. Indeed, 36 House Republicans voted for it, as did 19 Senate Republicans.
The bipatisan nature of the bill’s approval suggests some cynical motives by Republicans in using it as a partisan bludgeon, but Wilmouth isn’t going to tell you that.