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All in scorn, of course.

(h/t THS)

UPDATE:
Linked by Pirate’s Cove. Thank you!

Surprise, indeed! Via Instapundit.

But then, GWB never cancelled meetings or made the DL leave by the back door.

Now: Eliot Spitzer is a host on a CNN show.

Then: CNNers Derided Eliot Spitzer as a ‘Self-Righteous,’ ‘Holier-than-Thou’ ‘Narcissist’ with ‘No Remorse’
Rich Noyes has a video collection:

Cesar Millan explains the need to get dogs spayed to CNN’s Latin American audience, in Spanish. Watch the video at Noticias 24.

Here’s his public service announcement, in English,

and in Spanish,

Check out Cesar’s website, Cesar’s way, section on spaying and neutering.

Is the honeymoon over? Anderson Cooper’s not happy:
White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill

COOPER: So, this is the exact same logic that federal wildlife officials used to prevent CNN on two occasions from getting pictures of oiled birds that have been collected, pictures like — like the — well, that we’re about to show you which are obviously deeply disturbing, pictures of oiled gulls that we just happened to catch. Suddenly, we were told after — after that day we couldn’t catch it anymore. So, keeping prying eyes out of marshes, away from booms, off the beaches is now government policy.

When asked why now, after all this time, Thad Allen said he had gotten some complaints from local officials worried people might get hurt. Now, we don’t know who these officials are. We would like to. But transparency is apparently not a high priority with Thad Allen either these days.

Maybe he is accurate and some officials are concerned. And that’s their right. But we’ve heard far more from local officials about not being able to get a straight story from the government or BP. I have met countless local officials desperate for pictures to be taken and stories written about what is happening in their communities.

We’re not the enemy here. Those of us down here trying to accurately show what’s happening, we are not the enemy. I have not heard about any journalist who has disrupted relief efforts. No journalist wants to be seen as having slowed down the cleanup or made things worse. If a Coast Guard official asked me to move, I would move.

But to create a blanket rule that everyone has to stay 65 feet away boom and boats, that doesn’t sound like transparency. Frankly, it’s a lot like in Katrina when they tried to make it impossible to see recovery efforts of people who died in their homes.

If we can’t show what is happening, warts and all, no one will see what’s happening. And that makes it very easy to hide failure and hide incompetence and makes it very hard to highlight the hard work of cleanup crews and the Coast Guard. We are not the enemy here.

We found out today two public broadcasting journalists reporting on health issues say they have been blocked again and again from visiting a federal mobile medical unit in Venice, a trailer where cleanup workers are being treated. It’s known locally as the BP compound. And these two reporters say everyone they have talked to, from BP to the Coast Guard, to Health and Human Services in Washington has been giving them the runaround.

We’re not talking about a CIA station here. We’re talking about a medical trailer that falls under the authority of, guess who, Thad Allen, the same Thad Allen who promised transparency all those weeks ago.

We are not the enemy here.

Notice how carefully Anderson blames Thad Allen, instead of the Obama administration – the same administration that has pushed massive legislation by saying “you have to pass the bill to know what’s in it.” Never mind that the Dems don’t want the Reps to visit the disaster zone.

Cubachi has the video:

Ed Driscoll notes,

Hope and/or change in action: CNN, which first cooed over Rev. Wright and then banished him down the infamous “Wright-Free Zone” memory hole within one week’s time during the election in 2008, and then literally baked a cake to display on the air to celebrate the first anniversary of the Obama-”stimulus” plan, is now complaining about the Obaministration’s attempts to block media access to the BP spill.

Or, more succinctly, It’s Hard To Talk When You’re Sandbagging CNN.

Meanwhile, Jim Hoft has a list of the Obama administration’s incompetence and lies. Check it out.

Those of us who watch Spanish-language media are used to seeing reports where the gansta/punk/hardened criminal commits a heinous crime and the reporter never fails to include an interview with the perpetrator’s crying mom, who never fails to say he couldn’t have done it because, “he’s such a good son.”

Well, CNN is going one better. Now they interviewed the mom of Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, New Jersey, who got busted on his way to join Somali jihadists. Mo’s mom apparently didn’t say much about what a good son he is, but she sure attested to his stupidity – and his anger management issues:

“Anything makes him angry. But he’s not a terrorist; he’s a stupid kid,” Nadia Alessa said of her U.S.-born son, Mahmood.

Mom, being smarter, warned him about undercover agents that may have been on his case,

“Since I saw him, I warned my son and Carlos,” Nadia Alessa said. “But my son say ‘Always you say about my friends they are undercover.’ “

Nice mom, isn’t she? She doesn’t seem to have been too bothered as to whether Mo was a jihadist, she was just concerned as to whether undercover FBI agents were after him.

Robert Spencer speculates on whether this is a new twist on the insanity defense:

Now there’s a twist on the “Decent Fellows” canard. One might call it a variation on the oft-used “insanity” defense. Of course, it stands to reason she’ll make any excuse to believe, or at least to make others believe, that this has nothing to do with Islam.

And few will consider the chance that he’s actually quite crafty, or perhaps, that he’s both a jihadist and dumber than a bag of hammers as well. The important thing is, he’s a jihadist.

And mom wasn’t worried about that?

CNN’s Multiple Layers of Editorial Fact-Checking had them show a parody ad instead of the original Lane Bryant ad that ABC and Fox refused to show.

(All of you gentlemen can thank me later.)

Here’s the original ad:

Here’s what CNN showed (altered portion is at 0:38):

UPDATE
Hard to Live came up with the spoof!

Halle Berry and the value added tax

CNN is playing the I.O.U.S.A. documentary on the growing debt and deficits, and I received an email stating who is discussing the issue,

Featured Panelists Include:
• Peter G. Peterson, Founder and Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
• David Walker, President & CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
• Sen. Bill Bradley
• Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
• Amy Holmes, political contributor for CNN
• Joe Johns, CNN Congressional Correspondent
• Diane Lim Rodgers, Chief Economist, Concord Coalition
• Jeanne Sahadi, senior writer and columnist for CNNMoney.com

I.O.U.S.A. is on today Saturday, April 10, 1:00-3:00 p.m. EST or Sunday, April 11, 3:00-5:00 p.m. EST.

Here’s the on-line version,

And another reason to watch: The lefties are angry over I.O.U.S.A.

No podcast today, but I’ll be on CNN Live‘s Blogger Bunch today at noon.

We’ll be talking about the Postal Service, which lost $2.4 billion for the quarter ended June 30, with a total loss of $4.7 billion so far this year. Additionally,

It has an annual obligation to chock up to $5.8 billion to pre-fund retiree health benefits, but is banking on passed legislation that would boost its ability to take from the Treasury Department.

The U.S. Postal Service is considering closing 681 offices nationwide, including several in the Denver area, as well as weighing whether to cut post office hours, consolidate processing centers and end Saturday delivery.

The service said it is on pace to achieve its 2009 target of more than $6 billion in total cost reductions and reduce work hours by more than 100 million for the entire year.

Meanwhile, FedEx is expanding overseas

UPDATE
Arsalan Iftikhar of The Muslim Guy and Eric Hasseldahl of Business Week were also on the panel. Here’s the video:

Here’s the video of today’s Blogger Bunch discussion on healthcare at http://twitter.com/CNNdotcomLive, with Soren Dayton of Red State and Megan Carpenter of Jezebel: