A President who’s a publicity hound, and will kill to get it. What to do?<\/p>\n
Accuse the left of lying. (Man, is this Roman Senate or what? Not a spec of shame to be seen.) Here’s Erick Erickson’s frantic accusation<\/a>:<\/p>\n Mark Thompson, the CEO of CNN, has a serious problem that came into sharp view yesterday. His network is suffering from institutional arrogance. We need them, it seems, but they do not need us.<\/p>\n Yesterday, CNN anchors and fact checkers lied to the CNN audience.<\/p>\n A network that once ran \u201cthis is a banana\u201d ads and laments disinformation and misinformation, engaged in what amounts to institutional arrogance \u2014 an unwillingness to hold itself accountable for getting a story wrong.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, at 2:51 pm,\u00a0CNN ran an exclusive story<\/a>\u00a0that the Defense Intelligence Agency\u2019s preliminary assessment showed the United States only set Iran back by perhaps two months.<\/p>\n The story never noted that the DIA report was rated as \u201clow confidence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Elaborately stated. That’s a red flag. What are we distracting from?<\/p>\n That’s right. Whatever the confidence of the DIA report might be, it’s better than the President’s utterances, spewed as he runs in circles trying to claim a share of the glory. He has a long history of disdaining his own intelligence agencies; he relies on his own intuition, always a mug’s game.<\/p>\n I wonder how many people died in his attacks?<\/p>\n Meanwhile, it sounds like SCOTUS<\/strong>‘ conservative wing is diligently working to insulate the President from the legal world<\/a>. If this is so, that’s another pack of fools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A President who’s a publicity hound, and will kill to get it. What to do? Accuse the left of lying. (Man, is this Roman Senate or what? Not a spec of shame to be seen.) Here’s Erick Erickson’s frantic accusation: Mark Thompson, the CEO of CNN, has a serious problem \u2026 Continue reading