CBS's decades-old good reputation and ratings have dwindled since its once powerful and respected [[CBS News]] organization aired the ''CBS Evening News'' with respected [[anchor]] [[Walter Cronkite]]. The network's notorious fiasco concerning its news employees' forging of [[George W. Bush]]'s [[National Guard]] service records during the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 presidential election campaign]], which led to the retirement of Cronkite's replacement as anchor [[Dan Rather]], tarnished CBS's image. In [[politics]], CBS's [[liberal]] tendencies are evidenced by its news reporters' and show hosts' barely concealed [[bias]]es in favor of [[Barack Obama]] and his policies and against [[conservative]]s and [[Republican]]s. CBS continued to air the highly offensive ''Late Show with [[David Letterman]]'', even after Letterman contrived a joke that made fun of the fictional [[statutory rape]] of [[United States presidential election, 2008|2008 vice-presidential candidate]] [[Sarah Palin]]'s 14-year-old daughter, up until Letterman announced his retirement and stepped down from ''The Late Show'' in May 2015, after which former ''Colbert Report'' host [[Stephen Colbert]] took over as host that September and has proven to be every bit as controversial and unfunny as his predecessor. | CBS's decades-old good reputation and ratings have dwindled since its once powerful and respected [[CBS News]] organization aired the ''CBS Evening News'' with respected [[anchor]] [[Walter Cronkite]]. The network's notorious fiasco concerning its news employees' forging of [[George W. Bush]]'s [[National Guard]] service records during the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 presidential election campaign]], which led to the retirement of Cronkite's replacement as anchor [[Dan Rather]], tarnished CBS's image. In [[politics]], CBS's [[liberal]] tendencies are evidenced by its news reporters' and show hosts' barely concealed [[bias]]es in favor of [[Barack Obama]] and his policies and against [[conservative]]s and [[Republican]]s. CBS continued to air the highly offensive ''Late Show with [[David Letterman]]'', even after Letterman contrived a joke that made fun of the fictional [[statutory rape]] of [[United States presidential election, 2008|2008 vice-presidential candidate]] [[Sarah Palin]]'s 14-year-old daughter, up until Letterman announced his retirement and stepped down from ''The Late Show'' in May 2015, after which former ''Colbert Report'' host [[Stephen Colbert]] took over as host that September and has proven to be every bit as controversial and unfunny as his predecessor. |