Eason Jordon

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has started to follow the contraversy surrounding purported comments by Eason Jordan, the chief news executive at CNN, at a WEF forum discussion at Davos.

Your Maximum Leader has reserved comment until this time because there didn't appear to be a tape of what Jordan said. Nor had the transcript been released. So all in all it seemed like a lot of hearsay. But now according to Bret Stephens at OpinionJournal, it seems as though Mr. Jordon did say that the US military had targeted, tortured, and killed journalists during the Iraq campaign. According to Mr. Stephens (an eyewitness), when Jordan was cross-examined by US Congressman Barney Frank he (Jordan) started to backpedal and modify his story. According to Stephens, "one could almost see the wheels of Mr. Jordan's mind spinning, slowly: "How am I going to get out of this one?"

Your Maximum Leader hopes that the transcript of the forum discussion will be released. He also hopes that some other news organization will investigate this further. And if Mr. Jordan did make knowingly false accusations; one hopes he would lose his job.

And if Jordan loses his job, perhaps Ted Turner or Ward Churchill can help him find new digs at Al-Jazeera.

Carry on.