Crossposted on NewsBusters.
"What I don’t like about what is going on now is there is an absolutely frenzied and concerted attempt to delegitimize, sabotage and destroy the Trump presidency before it’s even started. I think that is un-American. I don’t think it’s a patriotic thing that they are doing. I think it’s nakedly partisan. It’s driven by The New York Times, who were completely in the tank for Hillary Clinton. And I think as a journalist who worked at CNN for four years, where CNN always tried to be, I know your view about CNN, but has a lot of good people there. I think they’ve got to be careful, all of them. They’ve got to look at what they are doing here and ask themselves is this legitimate journalistic rigor or it is incredibly partisan, often nakedly abusive treatment of a new president?. And I think, I’m afraid, is bordering on the latter. This Russian scandal. When you play some journalists — who I completely respect — when you play them talking about this being the new Watergate, Pearl Harbor, 9/11. You know the biggest scandal since Iran/Contra and so on. This is a wildly exaggerated view as the facts currently stand."
--- Daily Mail editor Piers Morgan on FNC's Hannity, February 15, 2017