Shocking journalistic abuse... Wolf Blitzer on Jack Quinn

[Flubadubya]

I have seen Blitzer go to some extraordinary lengths to show his bias and lack of journalistic integrity, but today's misadventure was downright astounding!

Wolf was interviewing Joe DeGenova and Jack Quinn. DeGenova was acting completely outraged and showing moral indignation over what Blitzer had already dubbed "the scandal that is rocking CBS". :puke: Extreme hyperbolic rhetoric was spewing from Joe DeGenova's mouth, but Wolfie just smiled let him rattle on. When it came Jack's turn Jack asked the simple question, "Where was all this outrage and indignation when the president's SOTU speech included forged documents?"

Blitzer flatly went ballistic on Jack. He flew into a literal fit. He roared at him, "We are not going to talk about that issue. We are going to keep the discussion to this narrow topic." Quinn, I believe, was truly stunned at the belligerence of Wolf's response, and tried to reply that it was pertinent to the topic, but Wolf just kept screaming him down. Jack actually tried to broach the subject a couple more times, but each time met with the same belicose blast from Blitzer. He didn't just step on Jack's efforts to make an appropriate and pertinent point, he summarily stomped Jack into the ground.

Folks, this was truly a frightening bit of fascistic, jack-booted thuggery on the part of our "media". I still haven't gotten my jaw up off the floor yet. Just incredible! :wow:

[Jack_Dawson]

1. I'm so glad I work during the day

TV seems to drive y'all crazy.

[spanone]

29. Somebody's got to keep a watch on these sleezy bastards!

It's a dirty job!!whew

[MissB]

2. Yep

I just posted about this in another thread. Today was the first time in weeks that I've watched CNN. Earlier, Woodruff was talking about the Swift Vet group and the Texans for Truth. I'm not sure what her point was about the Swift Vet group, but when she got around to the Texans for Truth she said "so-called Texans for Truth". Hmmm.

Wolf was amazingly disgusting. Jack tried to bring up Iraq and Wolf did the same thing.

[BootinUp]

3. I know, it IS worse than 2000.

I fear what it woulkd be like in another 4 years under kGB.

[Randers]

4. sounds like he is taking lessons from O'Reilly...eom

[grytpype]

5. Fucking turn off your TV, man.

You know it's 99% lies and bullshit, why do you watch?

Wolf will go away if you stop watching him.

[Flubadubya]

8. Wolf will not go away...

and I will not act the ostrich over it. Even if I quit watching, Blitzer will go on influencing millions of people in this country. With the sorry state of affairs that our media is in at this point in our history, I believe it would be reprehensible to turn out backs on it and pretend it is not happening. We NEED to be aware of how the media is flushing our country down the toilet.

Cancer never goes away on its own!

[Melodybe]

25. Ok Millions DO NOT WATCH BLITZER

The Daily Show, Letterman, and Leno get ten times the ratings of Blitzer.

DUers are news junkies, we watch the news, if you paid attention to surveys taken over the last few years more Americans get their news from late night talk shows.

CNN in total gets maybe a million on a good day.

Why are you so worried? Turn that shit off and give them one less viewer.

[Andromeda]

35. I'm glad I didn't see that.

I've been avoiding CNN lately because I get too upset watching it.

It used to be a good news station but now it sucks. I think everybody here knows how bad the mainstream media is and make up their own minds about the content.

A lot of us here write letters, e-mail or snail mail, and let the media know how biased we think they are. It's going to take a while to change things because the Republicans have had control of Congress for the past ten years and the media is bought and paid for by large corporations.

When Kerry is elected I believe he will enforce or enact the Fairness Doctrine -- but not without a fight from the neocons and the religious right.

It's going to be an uphill battle but I think we can make some positive changes.

[KharmaTrain]

40. Not Fairness Doctrine...DeRegulation

Two different issues. DeReg allowed the large corporates to consume all the radio, TV & cable systems they have today, and they'd like even more. That trend was somewhat stemmed last year when the FCC was over-ruled by a court on yet even more dereg.

The 1996 Telcom Bill, which Bill Clinton not only signed, but endorsed, needs to be revisited and there's many who'd like to see that happen, but to date, John Kerry hasn't gone on record as being one of those.

And forget about the fairness doctrine. It died 20 years ago and never really worked then. All it did was force a broadcaster to offer equal time under a bunch of conveluted criteria that didn't cover much news programming...thus you'd still have CNNservative and Faux with their right wing bias and little to no Democratic viewpoint.

I could go into suggestions on how to turn things around, but past attempts meant wasted typing. Good luck to you all

[seabeyond]

11. turned news off monday after kerry's speech

and i saw media go after kerry. each time i turned it on that day, had to immediately turn off. so tues and today i have not watched. i am much happier. i do just fine getting the info from the folks that are watching. so thank you for putting self on the line and giving me the jest of what is uop, i just will not do it

on red october now. just did pirates of carribean

[Career Prole]

6. When we've finished taking back the country and break up

the corporate media, Wolfboy can perhaps be a weatherman in Nome if he changes his name.

[blondeatlast]

12. He already did.

His real name is "Leslie."

No joke.

[Career Prole]

20. I hate when coffee comes out my nose! All the same...

Thank you for that hilarious tidbit! :D

[KoKo]

Leslie? You are kidding? When and why did he change it...anyone know?

I guess "Wolf" made him sound tougher...sheesh...these people truly are entertainers and not newsfolks...ugh.

[oasis]

7. "Talk about forged documents, Bush's state of the union speech was based

on a forged document" to paraphrase Quinn.

[Lucille]

9. Wolf was defending Faux news today

Claiming that "to their credit" it was Fox that first ran with the story of Bush's DUI. He brought this up by way of contrast with CBS' supposed biased behavior.

Actually, they didn't--it was a local Fox affiliate that broke the story, which was then picked up by the majors, including Fox News, which focused its attention on the fact that a "democratic operative" unfairly released the information just before the election.

All this has mean wondering. Do you think Wolfie is negotiating w/Fox for a new position?

[Guaranteed]

34. He oughta. I hope he does.

Maybe he's getting too many complaints from us.

[kokomo]

46. maybe Wolf is lonely for Greta??

Yet, I know many on the right who still won't watch CNN which they still call the Clinton News Network and lump them with EVERY media outlook as being LIBRUL except of course "fair and balanced" Faux. It is news to some that Ted Turner sold out to AOL/TimeWarner years ago.

[Rockholm]

10. CNN Sucks. So do their ratings.

I think it is a very good thing that most people do not watch CNN during the day (or MSNBC or FAUX for that matter).

I am PROUD to say that I have been CNN and Drudge free for 2 months now. Maybe I will watch CNN agin when we invade Iran.

[BootinUp]

14. yeah, their war coverage ain't bad.

I was glued I tell ya, glued to the set during the invasion.

[RevCheesehead]

13. Jack also brought up Phlame (not by name)

and asked "where is the outrage when a CIA operative is outed through irresponsible journalism?" I think it was this comment that sent Wuffie over the edge.

He got his points out, and remained calm. Good job on Jack's part.

[librechik]

15. Wolf was doing EVERYTHING he could ALL DAY to prosecute CBS

for their crime. It was obvious, unprofessional and disgusting.

[Riddler]

23. That's because Wolfie boy knows that he couldn't carry Rather's

jock strap. He likes to denigrate them every chance he gets because he knows CBS has REAL journalists, and him and his pseudo-news network don't have a "journalist" on staff, and he's jealous as hell knowing he'll never be good enough to work for a REAL news organization.

[Cha]

16. I want blitzer's head..metaphorically speaking when

this is all over..who's with me? :grr:

[Guaranteed]

33. When Kerry wins, the media is getting a nasty shake-up.

For sure.

[Chickenhawk Down]

37. I've got some other bits in mind

For the cock sucking mother fucker named Leslie

[PROGRESSIVE1]

17. The Democrats need to get some "hacks" out there who will....

shout down CNNFOXMSGOP and call them on their right wing bias.

Blitzer should be hung be his balls for this!

:grr:

:grr:

[lasttrip]

18. he has none.

[spanone]

19. I saw that too. I was stunned.

That was one of the scariest things I have ever seen on a 'news' program. You described it just like it happened. Then Blitzer went on to SPECULATE that the Democrats were complicit with this and it is of the Utmost Importance that we get to the bottom of this.(paraphrasing) Fucking Outrageous. I wish Quinn had walked off.

[Flubadubya]

21. And did you see the Roger Stone interview?...

At the end of the discussion there was mention of the NY Times article cited by McAuliffe and Blitzer came right out and said it was "not true". Those were his last words on the subject. He flat out said the article was not true, thus supporting Stone and casting another disparaging remark on a competing news source.

WOLF HAS GOT TO GO!!!!!

[MoonRiver]

22. Wonder how much Wolfman is being paid to blow *'s shriveled weenie.

Can't believe any amount of cash would be worth it. :puke:

[spanone]

24. Shriveled Weenie-in-Chief

[MoonRiver]

27. Lol

I think we have a new winner meme! :D

[spanone]

28. LOL

[Andromeda]

36. Eeeeeewwwwwwwww...

I can't get that vision out of my mind. HELP!!!!!:crazy:

[DeadHead67]

31. THANKS FOR THE VISUAL ! ! !

. . .:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[liberal N proud]

26. Someone needs to walk off the set while on air with these assholes

If a few people would walk off mid-interview maybe then they would get the message. They wouldn't treat me that way.
I would have to walk off to keep from coming across the table when one of them cut me off.
Damn!

[DeepModem Mom]

30. kick

[Guaranteed]

32. Yeah, he had Roger Stone on too, and when Stone went OUT OF HIS

WAY to NOT deny that he had something to do with the documents, WOLF DENIED IT FOR HIM and called the allegations "baseless."

[KoKo]

50. Why was Stone on? Because of the MacAuliff article? Does he look

like he did when he was "posing" on the porn site soliciting or has he aged gracefully. Why would Blitzer have this guy on? :eyes: I guess when you think your audience is clueless you feel you can get away with anything including Howie Kurtz and his Repug Op wife never being exposed.

[Chickenhawk Down]

38. FYI CNN has between 800thousand & a Million viewers on a good

day this represents approximately half a percent of the possible audience share.

So Fuck Leslie Wolf Blitzer the Shit Stain that he is!!!

[BootinUp]

39. great nick, welcome to DU

:hi:

I agree, CNN is less and less relevant every day.

[Supersedeas]

41. CNN cries Wolf today and will shut down coverage for Terra alerts tomorrow

[giant_robot]

42. Is this the same Jack Quinn

who's the republican rep from the 27th district in New York? I'm relatively new to politics in this region, and I know that congressman Quinn is retiring this year, but that's still pretty harsh stuff coming from a 'pub.

[barbaraann]

44. I don't think it's this guy:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/congressorg/bio/?id=435&congress=1082&lvl=C

[aeolian]

45. yes. (n/t)

[kokomo]

47. different Jack Quinn, the one on Wolf's show was Clinton's lawyer

[aeolian]

43. Go Jack!

Quinn is my congressman. Yeah, he's a republican, but you can't be a wing-nut repug and elected in this part of the state. Glad to see him point out Plame and the STOU forgeries.

It's too bad he's retiring, he's actually been a decent representative for the area. But, that means one more repub seat is up for grabs.

Brian Higgins for congress! http://www.higginsforcongress.com

[autorank]

48. CNN Sucks!

I tuned in Aaron Brown for the first time in months just as a lark. Guess what the third story was: CBS blablabla. These guys are total idiots. Just remember, Wolfie, Aaron, Paula, etc. are all on life supports. This business, as a stand-alone or a subsidiary, is NOT VIABLE...too little revenue, to many expenses (the worst of which are the overpaid, blow dried, blowhards pretending to be journalists).

Here is my comment to Aaron:
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Dear Mr. Brown: I decided to watch your show after some time. The mention of yet another CBS story reminded me why I had stopped watching in the first place. You are not only wasting our time, you are doing what the rest of CNN has done to plummet the ratings to an all time low. CNN can't be viable as a business due to the ratings dive. When will you guys wake up and stop pissing off over 1/2 of your audience with the 'white noise' and other mis-leads that divert the news from the truth: the war is a disaster, the president is a disaster, the economy is teetering on disaster. When they finally bury CNN, the total failure to cover real news will be to blame.
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[Catherine Vincent]

49. I see this was posted yesterday but I did watch that crap from Wolf at the

time. I looked for a thread on it but didn't see it. That was totally disgusting how Wolf treated the dem guy.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

51. Whore Blister has blood on his murderous hands

The CNN Whore was the biggest cheerleader for the Iraq War in the American media. Of course he's not going to allow any discussion of any subject that casts doubt on the very basis for the bloodletting that he so dearly cherishes.