CNN Decides It Wants All the Moonbats--Updated
That's the only possible reason for
this bizarre story:
During one of the discussions about the number of journalists killed in the Iraq War, Eason Jordan asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by US troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted. He repeated the assertion a few times, which seemed to win favor in parts of the audience (the anti-US crowd) and cause great strain on others.
Who's
Eason Jordan?
Eason Jordan is executive vice president and chief news executive of CNN. He chairs the CNN Editorial Board, is a member of the CNN Executive Committee and provides strategic advice to CNN's senior management team.
That's right, Eason Jordan is on the record as saying that US troops murdered 12 journalists in Iraq. Not that they got killed accidentally because they were in a firefight. They were targeted.
Now the irony is that what has really happened is that the media have targeted the troops, consistently, at least since the end of the embedded reporters during the early stages of the Iraq war.
Hugh Hewitt had Mickey Kaus on his show yesterday. Although I'm a big fan of Mickey's, it was not one of his better moments. Maybe he hadn't had time to think it over, but his response was along the lines of "assuming it's not true" and "if it's proven not to be true" (it being the proposition that US troops had murdered jounalists). Hugh asked how do you prove a negative, but fortunately the burden of proof is not on the military's side. Jordan is the one who's made affirmative statements about murders being committed; let him be the one to provide the proof.
The irony here is that Jordan was the dope who admitted that CNN had watered down its coverage of Saddam and Iraq back in the bad old days, partially to ensure access and partially for the safety of his reporters. Without dignifying his claims that US soldiers murdered a dozen reporters, isn't it kind of amusing that he never thought to do the same with US servicemen & women?
Captain Ed
notes that targeting seems to be a consistent theme for Jordan. Be sure to check some of the other posts and the comments; the swarming thing is going on full blast over there.
Update: La Shawn has been
collecting links on this story. Captain Ed continues to
blog up a storm.
