Didn’t CNN have a point, after all?

Can we we take a beat to point out the obvious? Michelle Malkin is still crowing about her part in the blog-hunt that brought down CNN’s Eason Jordan, and continues to whack CNN for its coverage about the bungled rescue of Il Manifesto’s Giulia Sgrena, during which an Italian operative was killed. But, Mich, wasn’t Jordan’s point (beyond the disputed assertion that GIs deliberately target journos) that too many reporters are killed in Iraq? And isn’t it still happening? Isn’t the reason one more journo isn’t on the slab the simple fact that the guy who died this time did so protecting Sgrena? You might think Berlusconi is a twit for trying to pay off the kidnappers, but have a smidgen of respect for the dead. You’ll find the word “respect” sandwiched between “resourceful” and “respectable” in the dictionary. And you might consider picking one of them for yourself.

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