CNN interviewed Kenneth Pollack today about his and O'Hanlon's latest op-ed in the nytimes about how great things are going in Iraq. The one thing that troubled me about the interview, apart from Pollack regurgatating the same WH talking points, was that the CNN anchor described these two clowns as "War Critics".Thanks to Glenn Greenwald, I don't have to go into why this label of "War critics" is patently false. Two hours later, on CNN international, the CNN host repeated this false label about these two. CNN is trying to give the viewer the impression that these guys were against the war and that they have suddenly been converted to Hawks because of the latest "dog and pony show" they were given by the pentagon in Iraq. CNN makes no mention of the fact that these guys have been cheerleaders of the war for the past 4 years.
Between this and last months bogus Sanjay Gupta piece on Sicko, I'm finding CNN's branding of " the most trusted name in news" to be as honest as Fox's "fair and balanced."