Larry Kudlow nails this rotten mess:
"LK: He should be dismissed by CNN. He should have been dismissed last week when this story first hit. This is Rathergate, this is New York Times, this is the whole nine yards that has wrecked the mainstream media's credibility."
Revisiting some of the Blogs more carefully found this from :
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Investor's Business Daily: Crossing Jordan
Investors Business Daily breaks media silence on the Eason Jordan story: Crossing Jordan. (Hat tip: Easongate.)
Now Jordans in the stew again. Speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan made an arresting charge. He claimed the U.S. military, while pacifying Iraq, had targeted both American and foreign journalists.
Panel chairman David Gergen, according to insider accounts, gasped. The man whod worked in administrations from Nixons to Clintons demanded evidence. Liberal Congressman Barney Frank, who was there, also demanded proof.
Jordan backed off slightly. But afterward he accepted congratulations from Arab reporters who called him heroic.
Thats when the bloggers stepped in, including some who were actually there. Then master blogger Hugh Hewitt took up the case. Soon the blogosphere was electric with outrage over Jordans irresponsible charge. Now theres an easongate.com, tracking the scandals every fact, every claim, every angle, and demanding CNN come clean.
Why scandal? Jordan was spouting outrageous charges with no basis in fact. In journalism, even in High Church Journalism, that is a cardinal sin. Rising to the topmost reaches of media power does not exempt one from the first rules learned in journalism class.
The bloggers, whove done so much recently to correct the elite medias misbehavior including sending CBSs Dan Rather to newsmans purgatory now have Eason Jordan as quarry.
Deservedly so. Its time for him to go.