CHUTZPAH ALERT: ‘Give me a break’: CNN reporter welcomes Ben Carson ‘to the big leagues’ on candidate vetting.

That’s pretty rich coming from a spokesperson for the network that created “the Wright-Free Zone” to give Obama a get out of media jail free card in 2008 — and in November of that year, after his election was secured — admitted “The Americans who are comparing [Obama] to those remarkable predecessors [who once occupied the White House] are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know.”

Related: No, Ben Carson Didn’t Lie About West Point. It’s Another Media Hit Job.

UPDATE [From Glenn]: Heh.

Indeed.