CNN ran crisis comms for Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) on Tuesday’s Situation Room after the Department of War invoked the Uniform Code of Military Justice against him. Co-host Pamela Brown and global affairs commentator Sabrina Singh never closely scrutinized Kelly or provided a differing perspective to balance their analysis.
The former deputy Pentagon press secretary signaled Kelly’s undeniable patriotism by touting his extensive public service career:
He was a combat pilot. He was an astronaut. He is someone that has served multiple tours of duty overseas, you know, put his line on the life for his country. You saw him talk about how he had something explode by an aircraft that he was flying. This is someone that has decades of service and that has done something to protect Americans overseas.
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