Hats off to Newsbuster Matthew Sheffield, who puts the hay down where the horse can get it: "CNN continues to play al Qaeda's useful idiot by defending its airing of footage of American troops being sniped at by terrorists saying it's only interested in providing 'the unvarnished truth.'"
Uh huh, right. And the terrorists who gave CNN the videotape of Americans getting shot and killed. All that those killers wanted to do do was get the "unvarnished truth" out--the truth about their plans to kill Americans. And CNN was there, happy to help.
But this is going to work out badly for CNN. The Ted Turner-ized "moral equivalence" network might be usefully idiotic in the cause of anti-Americanism, but most Americans, happily, aren't idiots, and will punish CNN for this transgression of its basic patriotic duty--don't offer lessons to our enemies in killing GI's. Is that really too hard of a lesson to absorb?
