[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
CNN's Michaela Pereira surprisingly went after Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on the 5 June 2014 edition of This Hour for his Tweet that ripped the critics of the release of five Taliban leaders for Bowe Bergdahl's safe return as "Obama haters" who only attacked the former captive "just to score political points."
Pereira underlined that his online post "garnered some controversy," and that "some of the people who are criticizing the President...are not politicians. They're soldiers – soldiers that either fought alongside Bowe Bergdahl; part of his unit; or were serving overseas at the same time. Don't they have a right to voice their opinions and speak their mind?" John Berman followed up with a hardball question for Senator Murphy:
JOHN BERMAN: ...[T]o the point of Bowe Bergdahl and the attacks on Bowe Bergdahl, so many of them – including right here on CNN – are coming from his fellow soldiers. And just to be clear, most of these soldiers, by the way, say it is right and correct that he was freed from the Taliban. What they are most upset about is the idea that some people are lionizing Bergdahl. They were upset that he was called a hero – that he served with honor and distinction. Those were Susan Rice's words. That's the problem that some of his soldiers – fellow soldiers have.