UPDATE: CNN has sent out an email to several bloggers, including us, that says:
Many blogs have taken Mr. Jordan’s remarks out of context. Eason Jordan does not believe the U.S. military is trying to kill journalists. Mr. Jordan simply pointed out the facts: While the majority of journalists killed in Iraq have been slain at the hands of insurgents, the Pentagon has also noted that the U.S. military on occasion has killed people who turned out to be journalists. The Pentagon has apologized for those actions.Mr. Jordan was responding to an assertion by Cong. Frank that all 63 journalist victims had been the result of "collateral damage."
Hugh Hewitt's all over this story too -- just discussed it on the radio with Jim Geraghty from TKS on NRO. Good work by bloggers...again!!
Which is it? Frank's was claiming 63 journalist have been killed by our military and Jordan was responding or was Frank trying to pin Jordan down for evidence of our military killing journalists. And who was the Senator present?
Isn't this the CNN producer who refused to do stories before the war that made the Saddam Hussein regime look bad, in exchange for his reporters being allowed to roam around Iraq unmolested, in otherwords, got in bed with Saddam?
In other words, Jordan did blame the US soldiers for all the killings before he didn't blame our soldiers.