Apparently Michael Ware has decided to completely throw out the illusion of being an impartial journalist. He decided that he would heckle Senators McCain and Graham. Here’s what the Drudge Report had to say about the incident.

**Exclusive**

During a live press conference in Baghdad, Senators McCain and Graham were heckled by CNN reporter Michael Ware. An official at the press conference called Ware’s conduct “outrageous,” saying, “here you have two United States Senators in Bagdad giving first-hand reports while Ware is laughing and mocking their comments. I’ve never witnessed such disrespect. This guy is an activist not a reporter.”

Senators McCain and Graham flew into Iraq and drove into Baghdad, making stops at an open market and a joint Iraq/American military security outpost before appearing at the press conference.

This is not the first time Michael Ware has taken issue with Senator McCain’s comments about early progress in Iraq. Last week, after Senator McCain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he needed to catch up on the news coming out of Iraq, Michael Ware responded, saying: “I don’t know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad.”Michael Ware has also publicly expressed his views on the war last year in an interview with Bill Maher, saying, “I’ve been given a front-row ticket to watch this slow-motion train wreck … I try to stay as drunk for as long as possible while I’m here … In fact, I’m drinking now.”Developing…

In my opinion Michael Ware stopped being impartial a long time ago… if he ever was. Remember, he admitted on air on CNN that he was with the “insurgents” as they filled mortar shells with nerve agent. Also remember that CNN was the network that brought us the video of one of our bravest being cut down by a terrorist sniper — the video was clearly shot from near the sniper’s location. If Ware is CNN’s Baghdad bureau correspondent, and he has associated with the “insurgents” before, then it’s certainly a possibility that he was with the camera man when the sniper video was shot. If that’s the case, than he’s an even lower form of pond scum than I origanlly thought.

What I can’t understand is why CNN puts up with it. I mean, you would think that just in the interest of self preservation they would at least want to pretend to be impartial. I mean, they do have to compete with FOX News for ratings. Of course, that’s why FOX News was created in the first place; because there was a need in the market that wasn’t being filled by CNN, MSNBC, or the alphabet networks.

UPDATE:

Many of you will notice a trackback in the comments section that links to a post by some unknown leftwing blogger. This person claims that Ware didn’t heckle McCain, and links to a site that supposedly has video of the presser. I never could get the video to work, so I have no idea whether or not the video is of the presser or of last night’s buffet at the local Luby’s.

At any rate, here’s Ware’s response to the charge of heckling. Note the editorializing from both Soledad O’Brian and Michael Ware.

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