Well, Maybe L'Affaire Eason is Important After All

The Eason Jordan scandal, while delightful, is a tempest in a teapot, in my opinion. For smart and savvy Righties like Hugh Hewitt, Captain Ed, and company to be surprised and outraged that CNN is a sewer of anti-American and anti-U.S. military bias is a bit like Inspector Reynaud upon "discovering" gambling in the casino in "Casablanca". Of all people, surely we're not shocked to discover this? Indeed, we've known it all along.

I served in the military for the better part of my adult life. I think Eason Jordan's comments were flat out lies, and despicable ones at that. But I thought Eason Jordan was a despicable liar long before he made his Davos speech, based on the way he's run the leaky postule that is CNN and his willful broadcasting of Saddam Hussein's propaganda. Now, most Americans probably don't trust CNN on military or Iraqi issues anyway, but Hussein and his Ba'athist thugs gained a lot of credibility within Iraq and the Arab world when Jordan and his band of idiots decided to do a Baghdad Bob schtick. I don't have any clue as to how significant this was, but it surely didn't help, and it destroyed whatever credibility CNN retained at that point (hardly any).

Roger Simon's making me rethink my position, and wonder if righteous indignation isn't exactly what's called for here.