Remember how CNN got all worked up when John McCain failed to denounce a supporter who had asked him how he was going to beat the b****, using the word for “female dog” to describe Mrs. Clinton. Well, someone recently asked him a question using a derogatory term for a part of the female anatomy and that network is nowhere to be found.
Maybe it’s because that the person posing the question supports Barack Obama’s presidential bid and used the “C” word to describe Mr. McCain’s wife (presumably a Republican) and not the “B” word to describe former President Clinton’s wife (most definitely a Democrat).
Jim Hoft informs us that Marty Parrish, one-time office manager for Delaware Senator Joe Biden’s presidential bid, asked the presumptive GOP nominee at an Iowa even if it were true that he ever called his wife a c—. Parrish now works for the Huffington Post.
Although CNN reporter Rich Sanchez devoting a lengthy segment of his show to the Republican woman’s use of the “B” word to describe Mrs. Clinton, wondering about McCain’s refusal to apologize for his supporter’s colorful remark, he has not seen fit to run a segment on this Democratic operative’s use of the “C” word to describe Mrs. McCain nor has he considered Obama’s refusal to apologize for his supporter’s sexually explicit remark.
Maybe Sanchez would have shown greater interest had the Democrat used the word to describe Mrs. Clinton.
And you wonder why some believe CNN stands for Clinton News Network.
We must be watching different versions of CNN. The CNN I get on my TV definitely tilts toward Senator Obama. Rick Sanchez, Campbell Brown, Wolf Blitzer and John Stewart seem particularly biased against Senator Clinton. And the election-year panels of pundits are loaded with “journalists” who ought to bill the Obama campaign for services rendered.
Trace, to be fair, I don’t watch the network all that much.
Dan (GPW), I would highly recommend CNN’s election night coverage. It’s worth it just to see the county-by-county information John King produces with his magic board. Election coverage is crisp and two panels (including Bill Bennett, David Gergen and James Carville, among others) provide balanced commentary and insight.
Wolf Blitzer is a little too hyper for my taste but not many hours pass before he turns it over to Anderson Cooper. Many election nights have come and gone since I tired of being lulled to sleep by the boredom of Britt Hume at Fox. I like Hume’s regular nightly show on Fox but when given the job of anchoring the coverage of a major event he seems ill-prepared and bored.