Will Wolf Blitzer Take Lou Dobb’s Seat On The Crazy Train?
Because it sure looks like he’s auditioning for the role.
On CNN this afternoon, Wolf Blitzer really antagonized Col. John Galligan (Ret.), the civilian attorney of suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, demanding that Galligan explain how he could “represent someone accused of mass murder.”
Some days I find it amazing that the U.S. has lasted so long, given the fact that every time tragedy strikes people are ready to toss out the Constitution. Hasan’s day in court is more about us, about who we are as a nation, then about him. And Wolf Blitzer knows it, which makes his statement sensationalism for sensationalism sake. CNN had better find an identity soon. Their midlife crisis has become painful to watch.
Good thing Col. Galligan understands what we stand for. He took on Wolf and won.
I fully appreciate the importance of ensuring that everybody has a fair trial. The rights that I’m asking be accorded to Major Hasan are the rights that service members live and die for.
Galligan: 1 bazillion, Blitzer: nothing.
At this point, Blitzer should have backed down, instead he went all Lou Dobbs:
“I’m sure he will get a much fairer hearing than those 13 Americans who were brutally gunned down the other day. I’m sure he will get all of the rights that are applied by the military code of justice.”
WTF? Talk about a petulant, childish comeback designed to achieve nothing. And Galligan calls him out for the win.
“The difficulty that I have, of course, is when people end discussions with me with references like the one that you just made.”
Here, here, Col. Galligan.
Tags: CNN, Lou Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer
WTF is Blitzer saying – that we should gun down Hasan? Hooray for mob rule!
I guess a lot of media figures think like this because something that should be a huge scandal, the execution of an innocent man Cameron Todd Willingham and the subsequent cover-up by Rick Perry, isn’t one.
The guy’s name is Wolf, he never stood a chance.
I always kinda liked Wolf just base don his name…. you gotta admit, ‘Wolf Blitzer”, while unsettlingly Ein Sfein German is pretty badass. But since i still dont get MSNBC in my apt i have had to endure CNN (we also get Faux new) and they have been skewing crazy. maybe it has something to do with the face that if you dont have comcast digital, you dont get to have msnbc but you get fixed and cnn… this could also be why Faux news’ ratings are so large. Many cable viewers can’t even access the other station because of Comcast. yes that was a threadjack, but it is worrysome that Fox has a captive audience of people who cant afford a digital box to brainwash… i’ll tie it back to the crazy bearded Blitzer with this, the trend is crazy… that is crazy, irrational, distrustful of an administration that to this point has done very well of keeping campaign promises, it is all becoming trendy and “news” channels dont understand the damaging role they are playing. sure they have freedom of the press, but they aren’t really reporting news. they are reporting ratings. Wolf seems to be proof that it isnt just the fat, greedy profits…..sorry prophets, like Beck and the Addict. If stirring the violent hate filled pot gets them more ratings, they care so little about the country they will stir away.
probably a topic for another thread, but i had to get a new tv to get msnbc. we have cable, but my tv was too old to get their new signal. So all the other tvs in my house got it, except mine. how weird is that?
Wow. The number of journalists I have respect for is falling faster than the level of discourse in a Glenn Beck/Pat Buchanon interview. That kind of “How can you defend a guilty guy / He’ll get treated better than his victims” crap is what I expect from someone unfamiliar with our legal system, or drunk in a bar, or running in a Republican primary. More proof of what “journalism” is turning into. … Must hold back. Not..going..into…anti-journalist…rant…