On ‘Special Report,’ Brit Hume Questions CNN’s Pat Robertson

“Televangelist Pat Robertson’s political influence may have been declining since he came in second in the Iowa Republican caucuses 17 years ago and he may have no clout with the Bush administration, but you wouldn’t know that from watching CNN today,” Brit Hume said during Tuesday night’s Political Grapevine segment.

“CNN covered his call for Hugo Chavez‘s assassination at length, undeterred by the fact that during the noon hour CNN’s own analyst, Bill Schneider, said Robertson had little influence. At the top of the next hour, there it was again followed by a glowing report on the alliance between Chavez and Cuban President Fidel Castro. And it led CNN’s three-hour “Situation Room,” followed minutes later by live coverage of reaction from the Venezuelan ambassador, and then nearly two hours after that — an in-studio interview with the ambassador.”