CNN gives radio-host exemption to birther, progressive-smearing Mark Williams

SUMMARY: Despite CNN president Jon Klein's reported memo to "avoid booking talk radio hosts" because "[c]omplex issues require world class reporting," the September 10 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 hosted self-described " 'activist' radio talk show host" Mark Williams to discuss health care. On CNN, Williams -- who has previously called President Obama and Jimmy Carter "Nazis"; has advanced the discredited smear that Obama lacks a valid birth certificate; and has called a female CNN reporter a "Barbie Doll" -- claimed that Obama is embracing "socialist policies" and compared patients who were denied coverage by insurance companies due to pre-existing conditions to drivers with DWI convictions being rejected by car insurance companies.

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