CNN's Bush League on the killing of Bin Laden

[ignatzmouse]

CNN is absolutely OBSESSED with putting ex-Bush officials on the air to blunt credit from going to Obama for the take-down of Bin Laden. It seems that credit MUST be shared because CNN is the great BS equalizer. Today alone, I've noted interviews with Paul Wolfowitz, Ari Fleischer, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and even clips from Dick Cheney. Have I left anyone out?

What is the point? I can understand getting an occasional response from someone, but they are featuring these people as if CNN has an agenda. Note to CNN: Bush and his team FAILED to get Bin Laden. They publicly gave up on it as it served their interests to keep fear alive. Fear was the great motivating tool used on Americans to put into place the policies the Bush administration wanted, to funnel money into the pockets of their cronies, and to manipulate people into handing them power over their lives.

The Bush administration let Bin Laden slip through Tora Bora. Bush stated in a famous press conference that "he truly wasn't all that concerned" about Bin Laden. In 2005, Bush pulled the plug on the special CIA unit dedicated to finding Bin Laden -- the same year that Bin Laden moved into his Abbottabad estate. And through all of this, they played the Shock Doctrine to the hilt.

CNN, if you are going to continue to give former Bush administration officials a platform to crow over the success of their utter incompetence, perhaps you should bring up a few journalistic facts about those years. Otherwise, you are only willingly serving the false narrative that was so carefully crafted by these conmen, crafted as a deception, and have surrendered the journalistic search for truth for a defense of official doctrine.

[Puzzler]

1. It's propably easier to get ex administration officials on than current ones

Even though, I agree, it's very convenient for the spin-meisters.

[crickets]

2. It's like the ship of ghouls has set sail again.

There's a certain level of tension and horror they bring; not having seen or heard from them in a while, I'd forgotten what a viscerally unpleasant reaction they provoke. It's ghastly.

willingly serving the false narrative--I think you may be on to something there.

[MrModerate]

3. The Kool-aid flavor preferred at CNN is . . .

"False equivalency" punch.

[opihimoimoi]

4. KnR #5

[DiverDave]

5. Nailed it

you should send this on to the lackeys.

I wish I could express myself like this.

oh, and a rec from me.

[Atman]

6. K&R

I'd sooner watch a QVC show about Cap-Snafflers.

[lunatica]

7. They just don't miss a golden opportunity to re-write history

And this is a truly golden opportunity to white wash the blood off their hands. Suddenly history and how they'll be depicted matters to them.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Condi Rice-

Couldn't remember the memo that said that Obama was determined to strike in the U.S., but she remembered they were looking for his courier during her time.