CNN’s Erin Burnett makes play to become this decade’s Judith Miller

Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi put he screws to Erin Burnett for her Judith Miller act – promoting a new war, this time with Iran. She employs all of the old Miller tricks, including fear mongering, acting as stenographer for hawks and presenting trumped-up ‘evidence’.

You can just feel it: many of the same newspapers and TV stations we saw leading the charge in the Bush years have gone back to