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CNN: The most trusted name in news.

Yah, right!

I trust them completely.

I trust them to lie, prevaricate, fabricate, obfuscate, calumniate, defame, detract, disinform, falsify, misrepresent, deceive, delude, dissemble, equivocate, and generally engage in any imaginable form of dishonesty.

well it is easy to come in firt in a 1 horse horserace.

CNN is generaly the ONLY voice from the USA abroad.

There is no other voice to trust more. (not counting the voice of common sense.)

CNN: The most trusted name in news.

Anyone else remember "Tailwind?" CNN showed a "documentary" claiming that USSF had gassed American POWs, an allegation that doesn't hold any kind of logical water, and that was indeed entirely fabricated by the producers, April Oliver and Jack Smith, and on-air talent, Peter "Baby Milk" Arnett.

Arnett is also the guy responsible for the "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" canard from Vietnam. Like tailwind, Petah made it up.

In order to move the documentary, they got the following people to go on air:

A cashiered former officer and convicted felon, Robert Van Buskirk
An air force sergeant who had nothing to do with the operation, but happened to be in Vietnam at the same time.
Several SOG veterans who were interviewed, and then had new questions dubbed along with their answers. Here's how it works:
Original Tape
CNN: What kind of gas mask did the Army issue in 1970?
Victim: It was called the M17 protective mask. It could protect you against tear gas, nerve agents, and blood agents.
CNN: How did you feel about going on a mission deep behind enemy lines?
Victim: [laughs] For us, that was routine.

Dubbed Tape
CNN: What did you wear to protect yourself from the nerve gas you used?
Victim: It was called the M17 protective mask. It could protect you against tear gas, nerve agents, and blood agents.
CNN: How did you feel about going to murder fellow American soldiers?
Victim: [laughs] For us, that was routine.

That is very close to verbatim, what they did to Jay Graves. This is a standard technique that Rick Kaplan (the guy who was behind the fabricated Food Lion story at ABC, and then was fired from Dateline NBC for rigging crash tests with explosives) of CNN lifted from Don Hewitt's 60 Minutes. (Kaplan has now brought his gutter ethics to MSNBC).

Think about this: in what business can some be caught cheating over and over again, and keep getting handed the ball? Any idea how many generals we have who have had three court-martials, or lawyers who are thrice disbarred?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F