CNN's Unvarnished Truth

CNN has become "the publicist for an enemy propaganda film" by broadcasting a video showing an insurgent sniper in Iraq apparently killing an American soldier, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said here Friday.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) called for the Pentagon to oust any CNN reporter embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq.

"I think Americans like to think we're all in this together," Hunter said. "The average American Marine or soldier has concluded after seeing that film that CNN is not on their side."

CNN said it broadcast the brief video to show the threat that insurgent snipers posed to U.S. troops.

"Whether or not you agree with us in this case, our goal, as always, is to present the unvarnished truth as best we can," CNN producer David Doss wrote in a blog on the network's website.

The unvarnished truth? From CNN? Is he kidding?

Why have we never seen the "unvarnished truth" before on CNN? Where was that "unvarnished truth" when the Muhammad cartoons were lighting up the world? I guess they only care about showing the "unvarnished truth" when it depicts U.S. forces in a bad light.

If CNN was trying to send a message. We got it. Loud and clear. Too bad it was written in Arabic.