PATHETIC – AT 10:14 A.M. ET:   One of the things I do here is monitor news organizations to see how they're reporting events.  And it seems that whenever I see progress at CNN toward becoming the news organization it can be, someone at that network reverts back to the leftist bias that has hurt it so much over the years.

I turned on CNN a while ago to see their 10 a.m. ET news, and encountered the worst 12 minutes or so of CNN that I've seen recently.  The anchor was the very liberal Carol Costello, who had to apologize recently for an unsavory comment about Sarah Palin.  I have no idea why they keep her around, except that she is pleasant and attractive.  Intelligent is another matter.

The segment began with a report claiming that America's real terrorism problem isn't with Islamic terrorists who fly planes into buildings and behead Christians, it's with domestic "right wing" terrorists.  Now, no one denies that we have a historic problem with extreme rightist groups that have a KKK or Nazi philosophy.  They'll always be around.  (There are pro-Nazi groups in Germany today.)  But the fact is that they have no important constituency, they couldn't elect one person to Congress, and they've been dramatically rejected by all but a tiny segment of American society.  Yes, they can do, at times, horrible things.  Oklahoma City is an example.  And I recall seeing George Lincoln Rockwell's brown-shirted Nazis, with swastika armbands, picketing the White House many decades ago.

But they are no great threat to American society or ideals.  We have not had to send out armies to fight them.  They get no backing from foreign nations or major religious leaders.  The contrast with the threat of Islamic extremists, who may someday get weapons of mass destruction, is dramatic. 

So CNN did it again.

And then Madam Costello went on to Rudy Giuliani's comment, which has stirred up the feathers, that Barack Obama doesn't love America.  Costello actually ran a segment from Fox News wherein Rudy expounded on his views.  Frankly, he made some very telling comments about Obama's shortcomings and his failure to say what a president must say in this time of crisis.  I had no great problems with Rudy's remarks.

Costello essentially giggled at the great mayor, and then "interviewed" Errol Louis, an African-American commentator, who trashed Rudy.  Costello was practically sitting in his lap.

It's odd.  The very questions Rudy raised are the questions millions of Americans have – about Obama's background, his true beliefs, his true loyalties.  He was saying what many say quietly, that this president does not see the world the way other American presidents have seen the world.  He has ridiculed his fellow citizens, who "cling to their guns and their religion," and lectures Christians on their supposed sins.  He treats our allies worse than he treats our enemies.

But never mind at CNN.  Rudy is the bad guy.  In fact, his anti-crime policies actually saved more black lives than all previous mayors put together.  His police commissioners got standing ovations in black churches.  But he's the bad guy.

Step backward for CNN.  Bad minutes this morning.  I hope the chiefs were watching.

February 20, 2015