The MSM is propping up RW idiots

I raised some concerns earlier about one of George Stephanopoulos' questions for President Obama about nuclear proliferation. To his credit, Stephanopoulos took the time to respond and offer a defense.

To quickly review, the president sat down with Stephanopoulos in Prague, on the heels of Obama signing in a new arms treaty with Russia. The two covered quite a bit of ground, but Stephanopoulos specifically asked the president to respond to a childish, vapid quote from former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin (R) about arms control.

Obama rightly dismissed the comments as nonsense, and said he'd rather listen to his secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff on nuclear issues than Palin. I went a little further and argued that the question itself was a mistake. In effect, the "GMA" host was saying, "Some conspicuously unintelligent right-wing media personality said something stupid about a subject she knows nothing about. Mr. President, how do you respond?"

Sam Stein asked Stephanopoulos about the question's merit.


Greg Sargent found this persuasive, arguing that Palin's "views do, in fact, matter." Glenn Greenwald agreed.

It's a fair point. Palin is a national embarrassment, but she's been a candidate for national office and, regardless of merit, she's likely to be a presidential contender in the next election.

For what it's worth, though, I continue to think the question was a mistake. Whatever one thinks of Palin, the quote Stephanopoulos read to the president was, at best, inane. No matter how big Palin's right-wing following, or how serious her ambitions may be, there's simply no honest or intellectually serious way to suggest she knows anything about this subject.

Palin's quote, in other words, was baseless nonsense. The president knew it was nonsense; Stephanopoulos knew it was nonsense; every reasonable observer watching knew it was nonsense.

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Bottom line: yesterday was a serious day about a serious issue. The debate has sweeping implications about global security. If the president is going to respond to concerns about nuclear weapons policy, those concerns should at least have some merit, not get thrown into the mix based on the size and strength of one's "following."

Last month, "The most Trusted name in News" decided to challenge Fox News by hiring Redstate's extremist founder, Erick Erickson, as Jon Stewart put it "Erick son of Erick". Since, then many people have called for boycotting CNN until the cable news channel decide to fire Erickson. But it's not the end of CNN's newest operation to seduce Teabaggers. For weeks, now The CNN Express Bus is following the Tea Party Express Bus everywhere in America.

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Here what CNN, reportedly, sent to Michelle Malkin :


In their email sent to Brent Bozell of Newsbusters parent Media Research Center, CNN seems to bash the Left in order to prove their support for the teabaggers :


Maybe CNN should have kept focusing on their twitter thing or their magic map instead of becoming a real joke. CNN had the choice to be the BBC of the United States letting MSNBC and FOX News with their partisan and biased views. But look like CNN rather be Fox News than BBC