CNN Lets It All Hang Out
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 8, 2006 at 1:11 pm PST • Views: 400
The theme of this year has to be “Our Disgraceful Media.” Newsbusters has the latest sorry example: CNN Reporter Slimes Bush: ‘Kool-Aid’ Drinking President Won’t Admit ‘Failure’.
Perhaps in an attempt to surpass David Gregory, CNN reporter Suzanne Malveaux derided President Bush as a “Kool-Aid” drinker who won’t admit failure in Iraq. In a report for the Friday edition of “American Morning,” the White House correspondent discussed Bush’s news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In additional fits of bias, Malveaux, described the President’s frustration at the lack of progress in Iraq as “the closest you’ll get from this president to admitting failure” and noted that “for Mr. Bush, it’s not easy to admit mistakes.” But nowhere did Ms. Malveaux make her editorial point more clear, that Iraq is a total failure and Bush is in denial, than when she drew an allusion to Jonestown and the infamous mass suicide by Kool-Aid:
Suzanne Malveaux: “President Bush and his closest ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, have stood shoulder to shoulder on the Iraq war since the very beginning. Critics calling Mr. Bush ‘the cowboy’ for stubbornly leading the charge, and Mr. Blair ‘the poodle’ for obediently following. But three years since the U.S. invasion, the two are still adamant their Iraq mission is sound. President Bush didn’t just drink the Kool-Aid, he made it. But perhaps now it’s a little less sweet.”
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