Well CNN is being an obedient corporation

[jorno67]

I expect this stuff from FOX but had hoped CNN would investigate a little...

Facts don't support Obama's charges against Romney
By David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/opinion/gergen-bain-romney/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

[ananda]

1. Ermm.. what facts?

Has CNN seen Romney's tax returns for the last 12 years?

I very much doubt it.

[millijac]

2. Gergen has dealings with Bain and Romney going way back

There's a great diary up at dKos.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. Yes, this should be highlighted!

[FSogol]

3. Didn't Gergen admit to being paid by Bain? n/t

[WI_DEM]

4. Maybe Gergen has connections to Bain?

[Zen Democrat]

5. Gergen has admitted ties to Bain. He disclosed on CNN once before.

Therefore, I don't understand why he doesn't recuse himself from commenting on Bain. He said he has "close personal and financial ties" to the firm.

[pa28]

10. I don't understand that either.

He spills ink all over the place disclosing his many ties to Bain. Great, so he wins an award for his honesty.

But once you reach the end of his very impressive list of personal and financial connections to Bain you wonder why any editor would even allow such a self serving PR item to be published.

Gergen goes on about how trustworthy and philanthropic these people are but then, hilariously, peppers disclaimers all over the place: 'What we know now', 'facts could change', 'the evidence so far'.

So you ask once again. Why is he commenting and how did the editor conclude this piece had any value at all other than PR support for the Romney campaign?

[tularetom]

6. What charges? I wasn't aware Obama had made any charges

He asked a few questions about Romney's dealings at Bain but he didn't make any "charges".

Besides if Romney releases his tax returns that would probably answer the questions Obama asked.

Looks pretty straightforward to me. I know this Gargoyle or WTF his name is wants to help out his old boss but he's not helping. Better if he'd just STFU.

[RagAss]

7. Actually, the article does not match the headline.

Certainly not a puff piece for Mitt.

[KurtNYC]

8. CNN had the SwiftBoaters on daily in 2004

they sold the Sadam has WMDs thing, projected Ohio and Florida in 2004 for Bush, etc. Fox-lite.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

9. Mr. Bohemian Grove himself...

As much as I can't stand Alex Jones, this is hilarious.

[Summer Hathaway]

11. Gergen's own words:

"I have a past relationship with the top partners at Bain that is both personal and financial."

"When the story first broke Thursday in The Boston Globe suggesting that Romney and Bain had fudged, CNN asked if I would do some reporting."

Was CNN expecting Gergen, given his admitted relationship with top partners at Bain, to "do some reporting" that would be completely truthful and without bias?

"I reached two of the top people whom I know in the company and, on background, they told me the same story that Bain sources told CNN's John King."

Is this meant to serve as some kind of corroboration: "They told me the same story they told someone else"?

"Both partners with whom I spoke firmly and unequivocally said that after he physically left in February 1999, Romney no longer made decisions for Bain regarding investments, hiring, firing or any other management issues.

Could these Bain partners now be lying? Possibly. On a rare occasion in the past, when I was wearing a reporter's hat, a friend has lied to me for self-protection. But based on relationships over several years, I trust his or her account."

In other words, Gergen admits to having been lied to before, but trusts those who have lied to him nonetheless?

That's some hard-hitting journalism there.

[just1voice]

12. CNN is pure propaganda, they don't do "facts"

When people get that simple notion they stop responding to the MSMedia propagandists. Here's a simple definition of propaganda, it perfectly described CNN and all other MSMedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

---Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.

As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.---

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Bitter old has-been who's just just pouting because the Obama White House

hasn't kissed his useless ass like past administrations. And as stated above on top of that he's a Bain tool.

[lpbk2713]

14. Gergen and facts appearing together ... LMAO

Journalistic contradictions.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. CNN is every bit as sold out as FOX!

I NEVER watch either one. If they lie to you about one thing, you have got to wonder if they're not lying all the time. CNN's has used up all the credibility capital Ted Turner ever earned for CNN. CNN has become a training camp for FOX noise/neocon propagandists. They even have Fred Thompson on their damned commercials. The "Guest" commentators CNN has on there are all neocon flunkies and pimps.