So why is CNN apologizing to the government of China, just because its commentator Jack Cafferty suggested its leaders were "goons and thugs" and its products were "junk"?
I don't care how loudly the Chinese whined about it; the fact is that Cafferty's comments concerning China's at-times brutal dictatorship aren't that far off the mark, and anyway they're HIS comments, not the network's. CNN should have simply made that distinction clear and left it at that. One would have hoped its devotion to free speech would have played a larger role in its response here. But, well, this is CNN we're talking about...
