AUSTIN BAY has more thoughts on Eason Jordan:

I’m waiting for CNN to release the actual audio or a full-written transcript of Eason Jordan’s remarks in Davos, Switzerland. That will clarify and –to pinch CNN’s word—properly “contextualize” Jordan’s alleged anti-US slur. We do know this: Jordan’s statement –whether chitchat or slander– was made before an international audience that included a score of Third World elites. These are the ruling class fat cats who have a big say back home about who gets to do what. They are the movers and shakers who have power to influence industrial concessions and –here’s the kicker in this analysis– with a wink and a nod can grant a news organization access to people and places. These elites are themselves potential news sources, bigshots who can add hardhitting soundbites.

Read the whole thing. And read this, too.

UPDATE: Oil-for-food, RatherGate, Eason Jordan — Roger Simon sees a common factor.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Michael Totten has more on Jordan.