Last night at the top of her little lungs, Jessica Yelling was yelling to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she agreed with former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new novel. The woman became deranged:

“The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president’s high approval ratings,” Yellin said.

“And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president’s approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives — and I was not at this network at the time — but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time….”

Cooper asked her if she really had pressure from network execs, and she said that she wasn’t really pressured, per se, but “they would edit my pieces. They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical, and try to put on pieces that were more positive. Yes, that was my experience.”

ABC News was taking the White House line? No, not exactly; you see, at the time, she worked for MSNBC. TV Newser tells us that Yellin’s going to put up a blog post at the CNN blog blaming MSNBC of being a band of Bush lackeys, stripping her journalistic integrity to force her to write nice things about the war. You figure it out.

Yellin works for CNN now. I’m not sure when they’ll get around to firing her.