CNN Apologizes For Guest Using Term "Crosshairs"

[gilliam]

CNN Apologizes For Guest Using Term ‘Crosshairs’…
CNN’s John King: “Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race. My friend Andy Shaw used the term ‘in the crosshairs’ in talking about the candidates. We’re trying, we’re trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he’s covered politics for a long time, but we’re trying to get away from that kind of language.”

Before banning ‘crosshairs,’ CNN used it to refer to Palin, Bachmann…** **

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IMHO, this is getting to be kinda silly. Should we stop using the term political campaign as well?

 

[estesbob]

I guess that means they won’t be resurrecting “Crossfire”

 

[Monte_RCMS]

The James Bond flicks always had crosshairs.

 

[exoflare]

My friend Andy Shaw used the term ‘in the crosshairs’ in talking about the candidates.

OH how gruethome! shaw:

 

[Monte_RCMS]

I don’t think that the media elites fully understand the meaning and importance of free political speech.

It’s not just free speech for the media elites.

It’s free political speech for everyone.

Rough and tumble, perhaps.

But, that’s the way it is and always has been in America.

And the competition of ideas is what gives the United States the counterbalance effect.

If things get too far in one direction, then we are free to criticize.

And the reason for having separate states is that each state can set up its own experiments to see if they can do things better. Better that than having some self-appointed coffehouse experts in the nation’s capital make decisions, which we know from experience are terrible.