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CNN’s David Gergen’s defends Romney. He’s on Bain’s payroll. « Fred Klonsky

CNN’s David Gergen’s defends Romney. He’s on Bain’s payroll. « Fred Klonsky:


CNN’s David Gergen’s defends Romney. He’s on Bain’s payroll.




 
To call David Gergen a media whore is to give insult to whoring.
Gergen is presently a CNN pundit.
He started out as a speech writer in the Nixon White House on a team that included the far right-wing anti-Semite, Pat Buchanan. He then went on to work in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
This past weekend he defended Mitt Romney’s retroactive retirement at Bain Capital.
“Facts don’t support Obama’s charges against Romney,” he declared.
But his objectivity is so compromised that he was required to start with this disclaimer:

Let me acknowledge upfront what I have said several times on CNN: I have a