CNN has become so transparent as to invite contempt...

[RBHam]

I was watching John King interview Asa Hutchinson (long time Bush Crime Family operative), who has the #2 phoney baloney job in the Homeland Gestapo, and I couldn't believe it. King might as well have offered to fellate this hypocritical, incompetent, often indicted creep! He called him "Sir" nearly 20 times and slipped it in with such respect you have to wonder if King's ever done any research on Asa's dark past, but HEY he's a Republican. They are sacrosanct.

King kept asking the same question over and over, "Sir, without divulging too much to the terrified but trusting American people, could you give us any specifics?"

Well, of course he couldn't. he didn't even try. I suspect he doesn't have a clue.

But King and Hutch were working in tandem to get the word "specific" dropped into their conversation as many times as is humanly possible.
To psy-op into the viewers mind that there is actually some kind of dire threat out there about to be pepetrated by unspecific brown skined people on unknown targets because of unsubstantiated information from anonymous intelligence and government "sources".

Even though Hutch didn't have any "specifics" he kept saying they had "specific info" that they were "specifically" sharing with local and int'l authorities, and that there was definitely a "specific threat level" but there were no "specifics"..

On and on and on...

Dear John King,

If you want to be a stealth BushCo operative, you're going to have to be far less obvious. Maybe on your next show you could bring up how the much detested and draconian provisions for the Patriot Act II managed to get passed without you guys even knowing about it. I guess covering Michael Jackson's latest foible is far more important than doing your job of informing the American people when they've been sold out to a Fascist New World Order.
You sir, have no honour.

[spanone]

1. I watched that interview and learned absolutely Nothing!!!!!

Softball after softball was lobbed at Asa. Creepy stuff.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Acutaslly contempt is not the word

but laughable in fact....

[KissMyAsscroft]

3. They have been a joke for awhile now...

Corporate news itself is a complete joke.

Their financial conflicts of interest make it impossible for them to report any real news.

[Sagan]

4. Well, of course..

Any "news" network that would put Candy Crowley as a reporter on a Democratic campaign has objectivity problems out the wazoo.

She was admonished by her then-employer, the Washington Post, for airing blatantly pro-Republican biases on the air when she was supposed to be working for them as an "objective" reporter.

[maggrwaggr]

5. Nice.

So when her ugly fat ass is on TV I should feel no pity for her, right?

Right.

Remember, beauty is only skin deep, but ugly is to the bone.

[peacetalksforall]

6. The former journalists who are still employed by CNN

and whose faces you see and voices you hear

are prostrated, adoring ermine trim robe kissers.

Yes, and Candy Crowley also washes his feet.

[revcarol]

8. I talked to her in Albuquerque at the Presidential debate

(the Kucinich campaign was going to have a big demonstration before the debate right across from where she was eating dinner, and the other reporters were stationed.)She was FURIOUS that she had to cover the debate. Gave me the impression that she thought it was beneath her dignity...MO of course.

Funniest thing: she was dressed "professionally" from the waist up, but down below she looked like a typical bag lady. ROFLMAO.

She wouldn't deign to mention that DK supporters were out in huge numbers. Almost 2000 of them turned out to watch the debate on closed circuit TV.

IMHO, CNN lost all credibility when Wolfie gleefully reported on the Supremes' throwing the election. Been VERY sparing in watching since, and usually only when alerted on DU that something might go down.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. "specific" was the Word of the Day after 9-11

I first noticed it when Condi kept saying they had no specific information about the attacks before they occurred. Then Ari said it, and Cheney, etc. There's a world of difference between denying you had information and denying you had specific information. Words matter, and these guys are masters of doublespeak. How else would they have fooled 70% of the public into believing Saddam had anything to do with 9-11 or Al Queda?

[evil_orange_cat]

9. corporate media is sickening...

I just want to throw up... it is 1984... just less obvious.

[dusty64]

10. By allowing Corporations with

agendas that run counter to that which benefits the Country, American Pravda was born. What were they thinking?

[cthrumatrix]

11. reading the rove script..what do you expect?

[SpiralHawk]

12. Specifically, they merit no respect

And that goes for the rest of the knee-bending US Media.

Sold out. Useless. Without honor.

[spanone]

13. Watching this am....makes Katie Couric look cerebral

[Poiuyt]

14. Even CNN Headline News

I was watching CNN HLN yesterday. They used to just have the headlines (duh), but yesterday they had an interview with someone who has a pro-administration blog on Iraq.

CNN used to be my favorite channel, now I can't stand it.

[NightHawk63]

15. CNN HLN

I second that. I was watching HLN this morning and they were talking about the CNN/Time poll and the ponytailed fuck Rally Caparas said that he'd like to know who the 4% of the respondents were that voted for Bill Clinton. I used to have HNL set as my wakeup channel until this morning. I even went as far as to put all the cable news channels on my blocked channels list.