Just when the humiliation of the big media dinosaurs was beginning to fade away after they got caught holding their respective genitalia by Rolling Stone’s masterful McChrystal scoop (as serially nailed by Jon Stewart, Andrew Sullivan, Frank Rich and my old bud Marc Cooper), along comes the perfectly ridiculous Lara Logan imprudently to reconfirm that they are so far up the military/White House/Beltway power structure’s rectal compartment that they cannot recognize good journalism when it slaps them in the face. I don’t know who Miss Logan is as I only watch CNN at the gym with the audio muted. She appears to be a beauty pageant winner placed on the screen to attract male viewers not overly concerned with what is coming out of her pretty mouth. If that sounds unfair or sexist, note her answer to Howard Kurtz’s query if there is an ‘unspoken agreement that you’re not going to embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter’.
‘Absolutely, yes . . . there is an element of trust’, quoth Logan.
She then went on to complain that Rolling Stone reporter Hastings had misrepresented himself by pretending to go along with the military hard-ons and then actually reporting what they said instead of burying it in safe innuendo. And, she adds, ‘to be fair to the military, if they believe that a piece is balanced, they will let you back’.
So there we have it: Hastings broke the rules by actually telling the world what Obama’s top general thought of him instead of being worried about protecting his access and his career. And he doubled the sin by not timing his take-down with the insider pack and showing them up as compromised hacks.
Pretty Lara Logan could not have done the same because she knows she wouldn't have lasted two weeks at the loyalist CNN if she had dared to out McChrystal since her bosses are terrified that Fox News will out-jingo them in the cable universe. So she is reduced to looking great standing in front of military hardware.
[Update] Matt Taibbi weighs in on this pathetic hack.
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