Michael F. Brown
On Dec. 7, 2006,
CNN journalist Glenn Beck savaged President Jimmy Carter’s important new book,
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, despite clearly not having given it a close read. In the course of his diatribe he referred to President Carter as a “fathead.” Time was that an employee would be fired on the spot for such a transgression. Had my mother or father run
CNN and been listening I am quite certain that Beck would have been pulled from the set and a sincere apology offered to viewers within minutes. Clearly, no real standards exist at
CNN.
