THIS IS BIPOLAR CNN: Back in January of 2011, “CNN’s John King issued a prompt on-air apology minutes after a guest on his program used the term ‘crosshairs’ during a segment: ‘We’re trying to get away from using that kind of language,’” as NewsBusters noted during that brief period of magical thinking when the DNC-MSM convinced themselves of the awesome talismanic powers of Sarah Palin’s clip-art and the media’s own gun-related metaphors.

But whatever dalliances with that form of politically correct Orwellian self-censorship, CNN has since thrown all caution to the wind: “CNN gives platform to maniac who tried to rush Trump; what were they thinking?”

“Trump is awful,” Iowahawk tweets, “but not nearly as awful as a media that is now almost literally encouraging his assassination.”

Funny, when Paddy Chayefsky wrote the script for Network in the mid-1970s, I don’t think he had intended it to be a how-to guide for programming 24-hour cable news in the 21st century.