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For John, BLUF:  I think the Biden Administration is taking his Impeachment Inquiry very seriously.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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CNN Breaks Story About Secret White House Media Directive to Bash Impeachment — to Bash Impeachment

From PJ Media, by Writer Athena Thorne, 13 September 2023, 12:55 PM.

Here is the lede plus one:

A Tuesday report from CNN Business is a real piece of work. It’s probably the most egregious example of media bias I’ve seen this year.

The report is blatant following of ze orders by a Left-wing news outlet even as it openly reveals that it is following ze orders. This goes way beyond your basic self-awareness fail to land somewhere between dereliction of journalistic duty and utter immorality in the pursuit of partisan service.

A CNN headline that read, “White House to send letter to news execs urging outlets to ‘ramp up’ scrutiny of GOP’s Biden impeachment inquiry ‘based on lies’” surprised me this morning. I was ready to grudgingly give the left-wing rag some credit for speaking truth to power for once. But a quick read through the article shattered my dreams of CNN actually committing an act of journalism.

The gist of the story is that, on Tuesday, CNN obtained an advance draft of a media directive from the White House that it would have received on Wednesday anyway. The newsworthy part is that the directive is absolutely shocking for a White House to send to the allegedly free media. And the first two paragraphs of the CNN piece almost read like a real news item (emphasis is added throughout all quotes).

I was disappointed in my Senior Senator's response to the House embarking on an Impeachment inquiry.  On the surface there are indications of issues.  It should not be this way.  Granted, without a smoking howitzer there would be no conviction by the US Senate, but still, that is not a reason to dismiss the indications out of hand.

That said, this is a distraction for Congress, which should be focused onte Authorization and Appropriation Bills, and the Hyde Amendment (DoDshould not be unilaterally ignoring US Law.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff