Give Me Mike Hammer ANY Day Of The Week
Ya know, it's hard not to concur with Hugh Hewitt that TKS' Jim Geraghty just doesn't have enough fire in the belly.
Yesterday he cautioned the blogosphere to be "a little more Columbo, and a little less Sledge Hammer." This was in reference to bloggers "crucifying" CNN Quisling-in-chief Eason Jordan for defaming the entire U.S. military as murderers and assassins of journalists before the tape of his comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, or transcript of same, had been made public.
Calls for Jordan’s resignation or firing appeared almost immediately after the initial reports of this. While I think making an accusation of murder on stage, at the Davos forum, and then not offering any proof is awfully shaky behavior for a news executive, the length of Jordan’s employment at CNN is ultimately up to his bosses. In my humble opinion, calls for Jordan’s dismissal shouldn’t come before calls for the release of the videotape of the event.
No offense to the Master of TKS, but this is the epitome of question-begging. Of course we all want to see the videotape of the event. That's why they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Get hold of that, play it on the tube, the audio on the radio, and Jordan would either be exonerated or convicted. Simple as that.
But there's only one slight problem: The WEF is not releasing the videotape despite the full-throated demands of the blogosphere for full disclosure. And CNN is silent as a tomb on the matter.
Now, of what does the above appear to be circumstantial evidence? Well, let's see; CNN can't compete in the U.S. cable TV news market but rules the roost overseas; and overseas pandering to rabid anti-Americanism certainly makes good business sense. Conversely, that same pandering would go over like a turd in a punch bowl back home, where "Jesusland" still predominates. And Eason Jordan, CNN News grand poobah, at an overseas event, is alleged to have pandered to rabid anti-Americanism in particularly vile fashion.
Logic suggests that if Jordan didn't slander the U.S. military, he would have no objection to releasing video evidence so as to put out the domestic fire that is his primary problem at the moment. Indeed, that would be a prime opportunity to embarrass and discredit the blogosphere by turning its own zeal against it. Whereas if he did engage in said slander, he would not want either video or a written transcript to ever get out, ensuring that the whole matter never escaped the bounds of "he said/she said" and would, inevitably, blow over.
And the videotape remains under lock and key.
What does that tell you? And what ought that communicate to nervous nellies like Mr. Geraghty?
What it tells me is that I get to say "I told you so" once again.
Oh, and that Eason Jordan should be fired and thrown out of CNN Center so hard that he has to use his nose for a brake.
Yesterday he cautioned the blogosphere to be "a little more Columbo, and a little less Sledge Hammer." This was in reference to bloggers "crucifying" CNN Quisling-in-chief Eason Jordan for defaming the entire U.S. military as murderers and assassins of journalists before the tape of his comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, or transcript of same, had been made public.
Calls for Jordan’s resignation or firing appeared almost immediately after the initial reports of this. While I think making an accusation of murder on stage, at the Davos forum, and then not offering any proof is awfully shaky behavior for a news executive, the length of Jordan’s employment at CNN is ultimately up to his bosses. In my humble opinion, calls for Jordan’s dismissal shouldn’t come before calls for the release of the videotape of the event.
No offense to the Master of TKS, but this is the epitome of question-begging. Of course we all want to see the videotape of the event. That's why they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Get hold of that, play it on the tube, the audio on the radio, and Jordan would either be exonerated or convicted. Simple as that.
But there's only one slight problem: The WEF is not releasing the videotape despite the full-throated demands of the blogosphere for full disclosure. And CNN is silent as a tomb on the matter.
Now, of what does the above appear to be circumstantial evidence? Well, let's see; CNN can't compete in the U.S. cable TV news market but rules the roost overseas; and overseas pandering to rabid anti-Americanism certainly makes good business sense. Conversely, that same pandering would go over like a turd in a punch bowl back home, where "Jesusland" still predominates. And Eason Jordan, CNN News grand poobah, at an overseas event, is alleged to have pandered to rabid anti-Americanism in particularly vile fashion.
Logic suggests that if Jordan didn't slander the U.S. military, he would have no objection to releasing video evidence so as to put out the domestic fire that is his primary problem at the moment. Indeed, that would be a prime opportunity to embarrass and discredit the blogosphere by turning its own zeal against it. Whereas if he did engage in said slander, he would not want either video or a written transcript to ever get out, ensuring that the whole matter never escaped the bounds of "he said/she said" and would, inevitably, blow over.
And the videotape remains under lock and key.
What does that tell you? And what ought that communicate to nervous nellies like Mr. Geraghty?
What it tells me is that I get to say "I told you so" once again.
Oh, and that Eason Jordan should be fired and thrown out of CNN Center so hard that he has to use his nose for a brake.
posted by JASmius at 11:07 AM
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