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The CNN crackup
As though the humiliation of being beaten so thoroughly by Fox News in the ratings every night isn’t bad enough, CNN is going through a major crackup. At this very moment, two separate stories are breaking that indicate the earth-moving going on at CNN Center in Atlanta.
First comes this tidbit from Yahoo news, about a CNN reporter being arrested on a drug bust: “Richard Quest, 46, was arrested around 3:40 a.m. on a count of possession of a controlled substance — a misdemeanor that usually refers to a personal use amount of a drug. He was also charged with loitering; the park officially closes at 1 a.m.”
Well, at least he wasn’t writing fiction and publishing it in the New York Tmies as though it were Gospel, like a certain New York Times reporter did a few years ago. What the world wouldn’t give to see what else was on Jayson Blair’s USB flash drive.
As though that weren’t enough, CNN’s Jack Cafferty has many in China and some Chinese Americans calling for his head on a silver platter after making derogatory remarks against China recently. Never mind the basis in truth of many of his comments; Cafferty’s problem is that he’s become a newsmaker rather than a news reporter. That’s not CNN’s style, which is, if you’re going to say anything derogatory about anyone, just make sure it’s a Republican and no one else.
Anyone who had any doubts that CNN is a losing news organization can now at least rest in the fact that many of them are losers. OK, enough blogging… time to tune into Hannity’s America and Bill O’Reilly.
NBC reporter calls Bush “monkey,” apologizes
I wonder if NBC reporter Erin Burnett will get some White House custom pens after apologizing to President Bush after calling him a “monkey” on the air. The comment, more than a mere slip of the lip, happened last week around the same time CNN aired its joke of a Republican debate in which so-called “undecided Republican voters” have been revealed to be nothing but a lot of Democratic operatives.
And yet, some idiotic MoveOn.org types want to seriously suggest that the media, by and large, has a conservative bias? Please; we have brains.
Also, according to a recent survey, Republicans report a higher rate of good mental health than do liberals or independents. Maybe that’s why, when our candidates do lose, we don’t need grief counseling. Instead, we learn from it and go on to battle another election.
All I know is, if Barack Obama were president, that “monkey” comment wouldn’t have been excused by a simple apology; she’d be on the permanently unemployed line!
