Trial by Blitzer

[oberliner]

Excerpt:

Worse than this though is Blitzer's utter contempt for the very notion of American justice. In Blitzer's estimation, Col. Galligan needs to morally justify the defense of Hasan because Hasan has, after all, been accused. That's more than enough for Blitzer.

Due process isn't for people like Hasan. His trial is to take place in the court of public opinion. His should be a trial not with representation and by a jury of his peers, but a trial by CNN, the honorable Justice Wolf Blitzer presiding.

Blitzer is not only unconcerned, even superficially as a journalist, with due process, but views the notion that Hasan would receive it as disgusting. The remedial explanation offered by Col. Galligan is frankly beneath anyone with even the vaguest notion of due process of law. Blitzer's line of attack is no different than the equally vicious attacks against former Attorney General Ramsey Clark for his representation of figures like Milosevic and Hussein.

The presumption of innonence is not even a factor here. How could it be that Hasan is innocent? Why should there be a burden of proof on the government? Why should Hasan even be represented? It's unnecessary because Blitzer knows that he is guilty. The justice system is nothing but a perturbing speed-bump on the road to revanchism for Blitzer.

http://dagblog.com/politics/trial-blitzer-1018

[question everything]

1. He knows that! But he need to keep the sensationalism on his show

so that people will watch, so that he will be quoted as... here.

After all, we provided defense attorneys to the Nazis during the Nuremberg rials.

[SoCalDem]

2. Blitzer stopped being a "newsman" a LONG time ago

He's just a schlock-slinger, and asks the stupidest questions I have ever heard.. I cannot bear to watch him, and haven;t in years..

[oberliner]

5. I remember once when he tried to correct somone about a person's name

The person was talking about Mahmoud Abbas and Blitzer interrupted and said, you mean Abu Mazen right?, not realizing that "Abu Mazen" was just a nickname and that Mahmoud Abbas was his actual name. It was pretty embarrassing for Blitzer as it was clear that he did not know what he was talking about.

[question everything]

7. Must have really been embarrassing, since he considers himself an expert

on Middle East events.

[Enthusiast]

6. Wolf Blitzer is

the worst. Honestly he is worse than bad. The way he frames questions at time. I can't watch.

[tularetom]

3. Blitzer's opinion is worth, uh, -$4,600

[oberliner]

8. That is really funny

Do you have a link to any clips from this?

[tularetom]

9. Ask and ye shall receive

There's a whole shitload on YouTube but here's a brief summary clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2ySV7AfgM

[oberliner]

10. Cool - thanks

Man Andy Richter knows his trivia!

[Zodiak]

11. Thanks for that picture

Blitzer's massive failed performance on Jeopardy let me know exactly how deep a thinker he is.

He is Ted Baxter, and did no better on Jeopardy than Ted would have done.

[rurallib]

4. O Looky - a right winger commented and really put Dag in his place

What are you, some kind of Muslim-mass-murderer lover? Justice is for real Americans. Thank you Wolf Blitzer for having the courage to defy the liberal elites who would rather appoint Hussein or whatever his name is to be Psycho-Arab-Murderer Czar.

* By Genghis at 11/11/2009 - 20:23
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By golly that'll show him! Justice is for real Americans. Shoot the rest and let God (christian god) sort them out.
Mr. Genghis seems aptly named. Thinks in the 5th century.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended, this is a good read and video clip on the link.

It's amazing that someone whose livelihood depends on the First Amendment could be so ignorant and/or contemptuous of the V, VI and VII Amendments! The stupendous and ironic thing being those victims lived and died defending the same rights Blitzer so casually dismissed and disparaged. Having lost their lives tragically without being subject to those rights; is all the more reason Blitzer should be defending them, rather than trying to emulate the reprehensible behavior; he claims to despise by manipulating the American People with a trial by public opinion.

V Amendment; "No person shall be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."

VI Amendment; "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which districts shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."

VII Amendments; "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any other court of the United States than according to the rules of common law."

Thanks for the thread, oberliner.

[oberliner]

13. I very much agree with your sentiments

His snide remarks really irked me.