I made the point yesterday that Fox News has opinionists — pundits — and also straight, or straighter, news. And bless the network that understands the difference: the difference between news and opinion, or news and partisan attacks. On CNN, the anchorman Anderson Cooper was interviewing David Gergen. This was at the time the “tea party” protests began. Gergen was saying that Republicans needed to find their voice. Cooper responded, smirkingly, “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.”

According to the Urban Dictionary, “teabagging” is “the insertion of one man’s sac[] into another person’s mouth.”

Well, CNN has opinionists, too — though when your anchorman is Anderson Cooper, do you really need opinionists? This morning, I thought of a CNN moment that a lot of us wrote about at the time. A host, D. L. Hughley, said that the 2008 Republican convention was like Nazi Germany. He said, “It literally looked like Nazi Germany. It really did.”

It really did. Never forget that CNN is a real news network, and Fox an unreal, or fake, or illegitimate one. The Obama White House tells you that. Never forget it, never.

P.S. I don’t much care whether CNN has comedians saying the Republicans are Nazis. To be a Republican – certainly a conservative – is to be called a Nazi almost as a matter of routine. But could the CNN types stop whining about Fox? Get off their high horses about Fox? That’s the bothersome thing: the clueless hypocrisy (although if hypocrisy is clueless, is it genuinely hypocrisy? To be taken up later . . .).