CNN's sad decline accelerates....

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from ThinkProgress:



CNN Hires Saddam-Al Qaeda ‘Connection’ Fabricator And Cheney Hagiographer»

TimeWarner announced today that “frequent CNN guest, Stephen F. Hayes, has made it official by signing on with the network as a political contributor”:

Currently a senior writer at The Weekly Standard, Hayes will appear on the full line-up of CNN programming as part of the network’s ideologically diverse group of analysts and contributors. Hayes has a long history of reporting on the political world. (…)

“Steve is a well-respected and knowledgeable journalist who already has become a natural part of CNN’s political coverage,” said Sam Feist, CNN’s political director. “As part of the ‘Best Political Team on Television,’ Steve will help CNN in its commitment to go beyond political spin and present viewers with the most in-depth and bipartisan insights.”

Over the past eight years, Hayes has done little more than spin for the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Hayes was one of the foremost peddlers of the false claim that Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda, something that even Doug Feith, one of Hayes’ supposed sources, later disavowed.

Spencer Ackerman wrote that Hayes “has made a career out of pretending Saddam and Al Qaeda were in league to attack the United States”:

He published a book — tellingly wafer-thin and with large type in its hardcover edition — called “The Connection.” One infamous piece even suggested that Saddam might have aided the 9/11 attack. Hayes can be relied on to provide a farrago of speciousness every time new information emerges refuting his deceptive thesis. Unsurprisingly, (Dick) Cheney has repeatedly praised Hayes’s work, telling Fox News, “I think Steve Hayes has done an effective job in his article of laying out a lot of those connections.“

Hayes later returned the favor, penning a worshipful biography of Cheney that Michael Emerson called “a wet kiss…filled with glowing praise from cover to cover.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/03/hayes-cnn/

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1. They were just fortunate

enough to lose that anal cyst Glenn Beck and now they go and hire this POS. How hard must it have been to write "a well respected and knowledgeable..." without puking on the keyboard.

I miss the days when CNN just reported the fucking news, they were respectable then.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Well, after tomorrow, for me, anyway,

there will be absolutely no reason ever to turn on CNN again.