"The Most Busted Name in News"

Not to belabor the point, which we will now belabor, last night Jon Stewart had a masterful take down of CNN's John King and Wolf Blitzer and their false reporting of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombings (as we noted yesterday).  In their zeal to be the first to break a story, rather than get a story right, CNN made clowns of themselves, citing "sources" as they feverishly fingered their Blackberries.
The story was an "exclusive," as Stewart said, because "it was completely f**king wrong."   Enjoy their comeuppance.

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Shame on John King and CNN

... and the other media toadies who started jumping to conclusions about an arrest being made today in the Boston Marathon bombing.  (You remember CNN, the network that rushed out to bring you news of the Supreme Court's striking down of the Obamacare individual mandate (not)?)  King based his non-scoop (noop?) on intel from Fran Townsend??  She's a former Bush assministration national security adviser!  Nuff said?  Here's the egg- on- the- face moment: