This Is Funny: "I Hate CNN."

I saw this on Hugh Hewitt, and I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair.

Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma just returned from his 11th trip to Iraq. I concluded an interview with him moments ago which will play on the program tonight. Among the highlights:

The new minster of defense in Iraq, Abdul-Qadir Muhammed Jasim, told Inhofe: "I hate CNN."

That makes two of us Minister Jasim. And that really has to stick in CNN's craw that the new Iraqi Defense Minister shares the same sentiments our own military shares regarding CNN. CNN, longtime bastard beating post of bloggers, is now on notice that it is not the world's news service it thought it was.

But can we expect anything less? This is the same CNN, headed up in Baghdad by Eason Jordan that chose not to report on the abuses that Saddam Hussein was perpetrating. The same CNN that went out of its way to spin the Hussein regime. Personally, I'm surprised the new Defense Minister wasn't on record stating that they were banning CNN permanently from Iraq.

Does anyone think this will be a wake-up call for CNN? Anyone? Bueller? All I hear are crickets ...

Of course they won't clean up their act, in a serious case of soul-searching. To do that, they'd have to have a soul, and you can't get something like that back after you've sold it.

All in all, this was a good day. The president pulled off his trip to Baghdad with nary a hitch (though some extremely questionable reporters need to be examined ... "Emotional attachment" to a cell phone? And they say WE need help), and the Iraqi Defense Minister decided to let CNN know exactly where they stand in his book; it's obviously not that great, though I'm not sure how the MSM translates the word "hate." They ought to know it by now. They "hate" bloggers more than enough.

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