(From TWD)
CNN further embarrassed itself as a network last night by somehow equating the Obama Administration not having Social Secretary Desiree Rogers testify to Congress to the Bush Administration not allowing Karl Rove and Harriet Miers do the same two years ago.
Both Anderson Cooper and David Gergen accused Obama of hypocrisy for slamming his predecessors in 2007 for their defense of Roves and Miers not testifying, yet doing the same here with Rogers.
In the latest light of shoddy reporting by the supposed "Most Trusted News Network", Cooper and Gergen equating Rogers' situation with Rove & Miers certainly ranks among the most ridiculous that they have played on their channel.
Rogers' situation , which you see Gergen exempt her by the way since it was the Secret Service's fault at day's end, in comparison to the Bushies is like comparing Rugrats to the The Wire in terms of how serious it is.
As Heather Friday so gladly explains
It's bad enough that the press has spent as much time as they have on this overblown story, but to compare the White House not wanting to give Republicans another scalp in the form of Desiree Rogers, who Gergen admits was not the one responsible for the President's safety, to Karl Rove and Harriet Miers refusing to testify in the U.S. Attorney scandal is utterly ridiculous.
If the press had spent half the time they did on the party crashers story asking why Rove and Miers didn't show up to testify, or on the U.S. Attorney scandal at all, maybe the public would be more aware of how Republicans have been stealing elections, how they used the Department of Justice as a political arm of the Republican Party, and how they filled the D.O.J. with partisan hacks like Monica Goodling.
Now ratings aren't at all an element of seeing the quality of a "news organizations." That phrase has to be used loosely since a certain propaganda network with the highest of ratings is still considered by nutjobs, liars and the sadly misinformed as a "news network."
Nevertheless, vapid "reporting" here from CNN last night indicate one characteristic of why they are in last place in the numbers. Addiction to "false equivalency" labeling isn't real helpful at all when your network is struggling for attention.
And it certainly doesn't help when that labeling is pretty stupid as well.
(From TWD, Have a good Saturday.)
(Side note, for all of you college football fans, there will be a preview and full thread for the Super Bowl of the SEC today, between Alabama and Florida, in a few over at The Whole Delivery. Salutations.)