Former CNN pundit slams network for Romney tweet, calling it ‘evidence’ a ‘thumb is on the scale’

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A former CNN political commentator took aim at the network for a tweet saying that the Republican Party is “restricting voting rights,” which he said is the type of messaging that “discredits good journalists.”

“This is the kind of bad tweet that discredits good journalists and gives evidence that a thumb is on the scale,” Doug Heye, a Washington Post columnist and former CNN commentator, tweeted.

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