Paul and Lew: This CNN “man-who-holds-a-microphone-and-talks” guy — and most of his colleagues at the other “news” channels — is in no way mean-spirited in what he does. He has been assigned to interview a man who thinks outside the circle, and one of the job requirements in the lockstep-media is to believe that there is no circle beyond which one’s thinking can extend. Like so many others trained in the establishment mindset, he reminds me of a fish who knows only the environment of water, and to whom the concept of non-water cannot be imagined.

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