A couple of years ago, you could have described the three cable news channels this way: FOX was dynamic, MSNBC was unwatchable, and CNN was boring. Well, CNN is now worse than boring.  It is just plain silly and self-absorbed, as Roger Kimball wrote:  A couple of weeks ago in this space, I speculated that CNN, the Crackpot News Network, had reached the terminal stage of malevolent implausibility.  "[I]t would be a good thing," I wrote, "were CNN humiliated and sued out of existence. It performs no journalistic function, merely a destructively partisan one." As usual, I was too kind. CNN will not have to be sued out of existence, as Gawker Media, another disgusting purveyor of malicious gossip and fake news, was a year or so back.  No, CNN seems to be performing a species of hara-kiri or seppuku in public.  Yes, the people at CNN are self-destructing, indeed, no matter how much they try to put on a happy...(Read Full Post)