Davos Dustup: Michelle Malkin vs. Eason Jordan

Nice to know bloggers aren’t always the Rodney Dangerfields of the news business, at least not to Michelle Malkin, conservative pundit and sometime punching bag for Bill Maher’s show. This time, she quotes “several sources” (including this conservative site, natch) alleging that CNN’s chief news exec Eason Jordan told a packed audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that journos in Iraq had been “deliberately targeted” – meaning killed – by G.I.’s.

She’s now demanding that the WEF release the tape of Jordan’s speech. Good luck. It’s Switzerland, verstehen Sie? For its part – despite assertions by Barney Frank that Jordan did, in fact, say the thinks Malkin is accusing him of having said – Fishbowl can’t find one scrap of evidence alleged by Malkin anywhere in her linked blogs, despite fuel to the fire from David Gergen (doesn’t that guy ever butt out of a controversy, by the way?). We’ll wait for the tape. Meanwhile, let’s do the tally:

Advantage: Eason Jordan. No matter what happened in Davos (and we’re sure Michelle will get right on that), it’s still CNN grunts in flak jackets – not coiffed columnists – who duck when they hear a nearby incoming, no matter who fired it. Somehow, we don’t think Malkin has ever seen the inside of an APC, despite her promise to “support the troops.” Fishbowl hereby promises to find a vacant spot in one for her. The view tends to be different from there, we’re told.

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