Blitzer identified Dem lawmaker whose home was raided, but did not ID several Republicans

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200707310004?f=h_top

Discussing the raid on Sen. Ted Stevens' (R-AK) house by FBI and IRS agents, on the July 30 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer noted that there have been "raids on other lawmakers' homes," adding: "William Jefferson, a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana, what did-- they found, what, $90,000 in cash in his freezer. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham out in California, he's serving jail time right now. We could go down the list." But while Blitzer identified Jefferson as a Democrat, he did not identify Cunningham as a Republican.

As The New York Times noted, in April 2007 the FBI raided Rep. John J. Doolittle's (R-CA) home and later "an insurance office owned by the wife of Representative Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican." As Media Matters for America noted, in October 2006 federal agents raided the homes of then-Rep. Curt Weldon's (R-PA) daughter and her business partner, as well as four additional locations, as part of what The New York Times described as an "intensifying corruption inquiry" into whether Weldon improperly assisted their company, Solutions North America Inc.

As Media Matters noted, on the May 3 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, Blitzer observed that Washington is "no stranger to sex scandals," then provided viewers with examples of scandals involving only Democrats.

During the broadcast, Stevens was repeatedly identified on-screen and by CNN reporters as a Republican.

[yardwork]

1. Blitzer is a whore.

[TomInTib]

2. What else would you expect from the dickhead?

Nothing, that's what.