Hugh Hewitt's comments on CNN's Roesgen:
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When Roesgen morphs into Robert Gibbs and begins to lecture the man about his eligibility for a tax refund and the amount of stimulus spending the state of Illinois is going to receive, Roesgen does more to end the media bias debate in this country than a dozen books by Bernard Goldberg. We can all rely on Roesgen and her producers to keep a close watch on the White House and the Democratic majorities in Congress, right?
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so damningly revealing about Roesgen's politics and utter lack of professionalism. She's an Obama-Pelosi apologist, and after yesterday's fit, she'll never be anything but that. Get her a show on MSNBC with the other Obama apologists, but how can CNN continue to treat her as a "reporter?" The veil dropped and the public got all the confirmation it will ever need: She's a lefty pretending to be an "objective" journalist, Olberman in a skirt. CNN can't unbake that cake.
That's not even the most important revelation. Roesgen demonstrated that she would intervene in a story to twist it --that's what made the few minutes so priceless.
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liberal reporters are becoming less talented and less learned, and much more willing to manipulate the news. Roesgen was just embarrassingly obvious about her limits and her "journalistic ethics," but she's hardly alone. Every day on CNN, Wolf Blitzer --a smart professional who along with Anderson Cooper are struggling to uphold the last bits of CNN's reputation-- has to make it through the Situation Room carrying the burden of Jack Cafferty's sophomoric rants. Cafferty was supposed to be a sort of light-weight Andy Rooney, but he's become a left-wing crank, an older male version of Roesgen. Add in Rick Sanchez shouting out his own inanities and CNN has suddenly got a Murderer's Row of laughingstock "journalists."
The old sort of bias at CNN --Christiane Amanpour being the most obvious of the leftwingers with mics at the network-- was at least concealed behind the faux sophistication of far flung travel and apparent learning.
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Yesterday was a huge opportunity for CNN to demonstrate that it could be an objective news gathering organization through the years of Obama. It flunked the test, and lost millions of potential viewers to Fox on a more-or-less permanent basis. Ratings suicide by stupidity.
Isn't there anyone in the executive suites of CNN watching the demise of the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and soon the Los Angeles Times? Has the network given up and simply decided it needs to compete with MSNBC? No serious news organization can afford to drive away a third to half of its potential customers. By lurching so far to the left, CNN is risking not just the conservative cable watcher, but also the center-right and independent viewer, and even no doubt some Democrats who prefer their news straight.
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