CNN Republican Tool

CNN is so afraid of offending the republicans that it has removed part of its debate coverage.

CNN's David Bohrman quickly expressed contrition: "We regret this, and apologize to the Republican candidates. ... We never would have used the general's question had we known that he was connected to any presidential candidate."

And CNN edited the question, and the candidates' answers, out of its rebroadcast of the debate, without any explanation or disclosure. They simply disappeared it, as though the whole thing had never happened. Because, apparently, it made some conservatives uncomfortable.

Can you imagine them removing a question that made liberals uncomfortable? No, neither can I.

CNN actually apologized to Republican presidential candidates for allowing an American citizen and 43-year veteran to ask them a question.

That's absolutely incredible. And it again demonstrates a double standard at CNN. The cable channel unapologetically inserts Republican questions into a Democratic debate. Then it excises from a Republican debate a question asked by a Clinton supporter and apologizes to the GOP candidates for having included it.

And it does so while allowing its new anchor, Campbell Brown, to equate war critics with the Iraqi insurgents who kill American troops -- without even disclosing that her husband used to be "the Bush Administration's Chief Spokesperson in Baghdad," is one of the strategists behind a right-wing group that also attacks war critics, and advises Mitt Romney. But commentator James Carville has to remind viewers every five minutes of his well-known ties to the Clintons, or CNN's president will become uncomfortable with the lack of disclosure.

CNN isn't alone in their double standards. Most other news outlets ignored the GOP question CNN included in the Democratic debate while reporting on the question from a Clinton supporter during the Republican debate. And The New York Times, which devoted a full article to the need for Carville to regularly disclose his ties to Clinton, hasn't written a single word about Campbell Brown's failure to disclose her relationship with Dan Senor.