CNN host who ate human brain on TV now accusing Trump of carpet bombing Iraq

Greg P. | 9:48 AM on March 28, 2017

Words have meanings and CNN’s Reza Aslan should know better than to ratchet up the rhetoric over a reported U.S. air raid in Mosul that resulted in over a hundred civilian deaths:

Trump promised to carpet bomb cities and murder families. That's what he's doing. https://t.co/Gp8wIKAV6n

— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) March 25, 2017

CNN — Aslan’s employer — reported that the strikes were directed at individual targets — which is NOT carpet bombing. The CNN report also said that the home might have been boob-trapped by ISIS, which contributed to the death toll. Aslan also missed that the airstrike was reportedly carried out under a policy set by … wait for it … President Obama:

Iraq airstrikes: @CENTCOM tells me authority to approve strikes was delegated to some battlefield commanders in December: pic.twitter.com/hc2ysQmOU0

— Jared Malsin (@jmalsin) March 27, 2017

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis commented to reporters that the U.S. always tries to “do everything humanly possible to reduce the loss of life or injury among innocent people. The same cannot be said for our adversaries.”

But, hey, what’s the point in accuracy in journalism if you’re willing to literally engage in cannibalism for ratings: