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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI will never watch Wolf Blitzer again.
Cenk just showed a clip of Wolf Blitzer chastizing Hillary Rosen for her comments on the air on CNN. He began by calling her out for smiling, forcing her to repeat an apology she had already made, scolding her saying that Anne didn't work when she "obviously" does, and after Hillary apologizes AGAIN on cue, makes her repeat it because he didn't hear her say, "I'm sorry." Really degrading and over-the top biased "journalism". I'm not sure I've ever seen anything so condescending and biased on corporate TV before, and I thought I'd seen everything.
If anyone has the clip, please post it. Even if you think Hillary should have apologized, (and I find her tone deafness in the way she made her comments jaw dropping since she's supposedly a professional), I think you'll agree that Wolf Blitzer is obnoxious. He literally treated her like a child.
Edited to add that the clip is below thanks to a kind DUer, so see for yourself.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)And Rosen told the truth. She should not have apologized.
Iris
(15,679 posts)including the President
senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)I just saw it on The Young Turks. I don't think anyone on DU saw it when it was live on CNN, or there would have been outrage threads galore.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)Lucky us.
ihavenobias
(13,532 posts)cash__whatiwant
(396 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)It really has to be seen and heard to be believed.
DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)sent this story into additional news cycles.
emulatorloo
(44,274 posts)DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)CNN took this action because the WH / Dems blew it up.
And perhaps the boys in the WH just could not help with the lesbian punching - it is just so much fun. How could they resist?
emulatorloo
(44,274 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,562 posts)Had the Obama Administration not distanced themselves from Hilary's remarks, the corporate media with Wolf Blitzer leading the way would've chastised them for tacitly attacking stay at home moms.
It was a no win situation from the beginning, the fundamental truth of Hilary's remarks, that being the incredible wealth possessed by the Romney's as an insulating agent from the reality that the vast majority of women working outside the home, or not, or both have to face and Blizter was most intent on never recognizing that point because he was told by his corporate supremacist masters not to.
It was a tempest in a teapot created and magnified by the corporate media regardless of how Obama and the Democrats reacted to it.
In short the corporate media is to news and enlightenment what professional wrestling is to sports, an illusion designed to separate the viewing public from their money
demgrrrll
(3,590 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Even though what he was talking about was helping get the funding from the educational and military organizations to assist in the building of what became the internet....
Whisp
(24,096 posts)and she should. Blitzer ambushed her - the fuckwit Blitzer always delivers fuckwitted shit. Thank dog I don't watch that flea bitten puke station any more. What a disgrace.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)And during the middle of a well presented interview with a local Everett Minnesota, woman reporter, Blitzer bounds out into the airfield, grabs the mike away from the woman, and gleefully tells the audience the exact opposite of the truth. He claimed the weather had brought down the plane. When it was obvious to anyone brought up in the midWest that what the woman reporter had been saying was the fact - the weather was normal for a day in late October, slight rain, and in the high thirties. People in Minnesota are used to far far worse.
He is a CIA troll and nothing from his mouth ever sits right by me.
zorahopkins
(1,320 posts)This clip clearly demonstrates the patriarchy.
HOW DARE that white male Wolf Blitzer berate a woman??!!!!
UTUSN
(70,793 posts)Effing Leslie salivating at having a face to face of the two, WITH HIM HOSTING - yea, *that's* the ticket!1
Plus, to the whassisname who claimed he knows THREE Hillary ROSENS, "I don't know any other Hillary ROSENs, JAY." Note the FIRST NAME basis!1
That said, it's sad how this person, a FIGHTING Dem is being treated, but she's tough. I've sent an e-mail of support to the DNC at another thread's suggestion, and we need to send her flowers.
spanone
(135,950 posts)HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)...before I saw your name.
And yeah, he's a bearded douchebag.
Have a great weekend.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)Go GIANTS!!!!!!!
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)The guy's an idiot.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)I'm serious. She may be a single parent or just the family income mainstay. Hey, you do it if survival depends on it!
jp11
(2,104 posts)or whatever her title is. Generally if you are 'qualified' to be a talking head you are qualified to do other things, ie you have a career not a 'job' where you are forced to take what you can get.
I'd probably do whatever my boss wanted to keep my job, including making an apology I didn't think I needed to make about something that is correct. It doesn't help when your 'co-workers' toss you under the bus to fan their ratings though leaving you little choice but to apologize or expect to get fired.
Even apologizing she'll probably 'suffer' for this, from being pushed into the shadows to not having her contract renewed or however her employment is setup with CNN. Again she should have other career options other than being a talking head that chimes in about issues on cable tv.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Admin.
I am not advocating forher to do this. Just forecasting something she might do.
She might not. And I see alot of reason for her not to do this.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)Guess he sees himself as her boss.....
senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)Can you imagine him taking this tone with a male colleague?
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Trayvon's mom f*cked up by going on O'Really yesterday.
Why do these people think it's a good idea to go on M$M after they have pissed off conservatives?
DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)she works at CNN.
rgbecker
(4,835 posts)It is not uncommon to use the term "work" to mean Employment and all indications are that Anne Rmoney never "Worked" in her life. How often have you heard the expression " what do you do for work?" A proper response would be to tell what you do for employment rather than report that you mow your lawn, take the trash out and wash the dishes.
This beating up on Hillary is doing the job of keeping the story alive, which of course makes people aware that Anne has been at home, or driving her couple of Cadillacs, rather than working outside the house like 60% of women do. Good for her that she doesn't have to work like so many other women, but she like everyone else in the public eye had better be ready to take the heat.
Ask your kids if they know any kids with a Mom that isn't working both inside and outside the home. Very rare.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)I no longer watch their station and that Hillary was correct.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)During the democratic primaries she was a Hillary supporter so I wasn't all that fond of how she carried the latest Clinton fabrication to the CNN stage but overall I think she is very intelligent and genuine and respect and admire her.
fuck you, wolf!
like someone mentioned in this thread - there is no way the Blitz would humiliate a male colleague like he did her.
malaise
(269,328 posts)Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! He is a shameless hack and a Jeopardy dunce.
LuvLoogie
(7,078 posts)She's right on every point. Don't get so bent out of shape over Wolf. Wolf Blitzer is basically Geraldo--ridiculous. And deep down, the Right knows it's FOS and their asses are showing.
senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)She had already apologized before this clip even began and probably didn't expect her co-worker to force her to do it again on live TV.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)his droning on in ages.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)thats what my dictionary says about Blitzer.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,365 posts)... ass handed to him on Jeopardy!"
That'll do!
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)as it was going on and I wrote a blistering email to that POS..
INdemo
(6,994 posts)If a f&*kng Republican would have made some similar comment about Michele Obama not one word would have been said.The Republicans that would have made the comment would be on CNN being glorified....
So i wish she would not have apologized and explained her reasoning..She probably has never had to work out a budget and never shops,r her maid never has to shop with coupons..She has servants,nanny's and and chauffeur driving her caddy for her..so haw can a Repukes like Blitzer compare her to average working Mother...
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I just didn't have the stomach for his biased reporting.
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)I have never seen a man called out and publicly humiliated on the air like that.
And for the record, Ann Romney stated in 1994 "No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted." Mitt decided for her.
http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/income-distribution/mitt-romney-and-ann-the-students-struggling-so-much-that-they-had-to-sell-stock/
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Them and their fucking knee jerk apologies! If they had half a brain, their strategists would have found this quote, and simply played it in response saying, "See? She even said it herself." Boom, case closed. Sometimes I wonder about Democrats and their constant tail-tucking.
golddigger
(3,804 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)Interesting, but as always with republicans, facts don't matter.
renate
(13,776 posts)Thanks!
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)I tend to comment on existing OP's. There's another little golden nugget in
there if you caught it. Ann R. comments that she and Mitt waited 4 years
to have their third child because he was still a student. Either they didn't
have sex for four years or she used contraceptives...just say'in.
LiberalFighter
(51,388 posts)And I wonder if they would had done this if it were a man?
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Disgusting.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)that once again, the Democratic Leadership threw another good Democrat under the bus to appease the Republican Party which has never worked, all they do is use it against them.
I find it so disappointing that as soon as Rightwinger points a finger at any Democrat, from Van Jones, to Shirley Sherrod to ACORN, to Anthony Weiner and now to Hillary Rosen, the Dem Leadership leaps into action and joins the attacks.
She had no reason to apologize, and the Dem Leadership should have taken the issue and run with it agaiinst Romney, NOT against Rosen.
And once again the question is raised, if the Democratic Leadership will not stand up for one of their own colleagues when the Republicans start throwing faux fits, how can we expect them to stand up for us?
Disgusting display by Blitzer, but he couldn't have rubbed it in with his 'we know Republicans would go after you, but how does it feel to know that your OWN PARTY is so angry at you also' if the Dem Party Leadership had any guts at all.
How betrayed she must feel.
No guts, no glory.
And that is why we are where we are.
progressoid
(50,020 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)i wish she would have stood up and punched him out.
senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)Seriously? He was literally standing on a box? I thought they only did that on home shopping channels?!
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)he's intentionally made to look bigger than Hilary so it looks
like he's talking down to her. which makes it even more humiliating
for her.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)I was just reading comments on Jack Cafferty's blog, and I'd say 80% were pro-Hilary Rosen. I have a feeling Wolf may have gone too far and we'll hear about it.
the antichristie
(34 posts)Recco!
jp11
(2,104 posts)trying to play both sides by agreeing with whatever FOX pundits say isn't the middle of the road as they seem to think it is.
Watching the clip just reinforces why I don't bother tuning into any of their shows.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)He was on 2 whole hours every weekday during prime time.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I don't understand why any Dems would patronize the corporate media at all, but those of you who do seem to be addicted. I sort of wish you wouldn't complain about it day after day.
unionworks
(3,574 posts)From what I learned long ago on D.U. is a fundy fuckwit. Fuck you Sheep Blitzer!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)I get my national news from CurrentTV, MSNBC, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Although CNN isn't as bad as Fox and it prides itself on supposedly being "non-partisan", many times it gives false legitimacy to right-wing talking points and caves in whenever conservatives whine about them, instead of calling them out on their BS.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)aikoaiko
(34,186 posts)All for CNNs benefit.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)My eyes got tired from so many eye rolls. Fuck him.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Many better alternatives available.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)Wolf sucks I stopped watching cnn a long time ago.
Anyone that thinks Anne Romney has any clue about what working moms go through is an idiot.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)the corporate media is a sham... sure, they will air a few liberals here and there, but they are just trying to make things look "fair and balanced". Hey corporate media employees... is your check worth it?
TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)Watching him is a disservice to the mind and soul.
nvme
(860 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)nvme
(860 posts)All I can say is WOW! I am truly disgusted by Wolf Blitzer. I have never seen anyone humiliate another person like that POS did to Rosen. I am embarrassed for her and anyone who has seen it. Damn I makes me friggin angrier and angrier. I normally keep the TV on CNN where I work. I get a lot of Rightwing nutbags. CNN was my way of hearing current events without having them hijack the TV and put it on Fox. Now I am going to watch Fox before I do CNN. I will absolutely refuse to watch any program that has grating little dweeb on it. He was always a petty little turd.
The Wizard
(12,556 posts)on the impeach Clinton band wagon. Wolf has always tried to put a rightward slant on his reporting.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)During the Clinton administration.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)a lot of people feel the same way... and have for quite a while, actually.
Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)He can go fuck himself in the situation room
senseandsensibility
(17,244 posts)The sexist element, while obvious, bears repeating. Would he ever have done this to a male colleague? And, has any "journalist" ever chided a co-worker like this on the air before? They (CNN) have reached a new low here, even for them.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Mr. Blitzer practically had his lips wrapped around Bush's cock during the initial invasion of Iraq. I stopped listening to that terrorist warmonger years ago.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)gawd I hate that little fuckwit know nothing
I hope he feels our prickly vibes and get bum itch or somethin g. and scratches on camera.
spanone
(135,950 posts)PatSeg
(47,770 posts)why I don't watch CNN anymore. The number one reason is Wolf Blitzer.
Yet another reason to never watch CNN.