CNN needs to show a few editors and fact-checkers the door.

Michelle Malkin has been all over a misquote that CNN just can’t seem to let go. The network had misquoted freed Italian Communist journalist Giuliana Sgrena as writing that her car “was driving slowly” toward an American checkpoint in Iraq and that “the Americans fired without motive.” Problem is, she didn’t write that (here is the English translation of her article) .

In fact, she pretty much says the opposite, and that they struggled to maintain control driving through puddles at fast speeds. CNN corrected the original article about 15 minutes after Malkin blogged it. But the boo-boo has found its way into two more stories.

Then again, this is the network that brought us Eason Jordan, Peter Arnett and the fraudulent “Tailwind” story, so I don’t expect much to begin with.

Malkin and others have also been all Sgrena’s version of the truth — it has more holes in it than her car, which isn’t saying much, seeing as how the car looks pretty damned good after supposedly getting hundreds of military rifle rounds pumped into it.

UPDATE: I must be going senile. I forgot to mention something. Isn’t this coming from the network that openly admitted that it spiked stories of Hussein atrocities in order to maintain its Baghdad bureau? What credibility does CNN have on ANY story coming out of Iraq?

UPDATE II: Cox and Forkum says it best.