CNN's decision to hire recently fired Trump manager Corey Lewandowski, he of the journalist-shoving and behavioral grotesqueness so grotesque that not even Donald J. Trump was willing to stomach it anymore, is one of those rare moves so ridiculous that even journalistic wasteland Fox News feels safe in offering up their contempt. Megyn Kelly:
He's "the same guy who has threatened more than one journalist in the course of this campaign, has had some very ugly language attributed to him when it comes to women." [...]
Lewandowski made clear before, and again last evening during his inaugural CNN appearance, that he "doesn't intend to utter a negative syllable about Donald Trump," said [Howard] Kurtz. "And even if he wanted to he signed a confidentiality agreement with Trump, so he is limited in what he can say." Well, that seems to put him in the same boat as Fox host Sean Hannity, Trump's very own cable news caddy.
"So it's not honest analysis…It's really remarkable," concluded Kelly about the hire.
Megyn Kelly and Igor (pronounced eye-gore) are right. By gum, it does indeed seem curious that you would hire a man to talk to the nation about Donald Trump who is contractually not allowed to opine negatively on him. Essentially, CNN has hired a Donald Trump commercial. Why bother? Why not purchase one of those fine Trump campaign caps and make it one of your rotating pundits?
"Donald Trump today announced that if he is elected president, he will turn the Lincoln Memorial into a high-class casino. Hat, what do you think of this?"
… Make America Great Again ...
"You raise a good point, hat, and I like your bold lettering. Alright, we'll be right back to talk to a sofa that the late Antonin Scalia once sat on. The topic: Affirmative action."
Ah, well. I'm sure we'll get there soon enough.