Truly cringe-making Oklahoma moment, from Digby, via Bruce:
I don’t know what Blitzer’s personal religious views are, but he comes across in this segment as attempting to talk down to the “little people” of Oklahoma as one of them by using their religious vernacular. Blitzer doesn’t seem like the Bible-thumping type, but he is extremely condescending and constantly out of his depth.
And yes, I’m only posting this because Blitzer worked for AIPAC once and, as my beloved late friend Robbie Friedman put it in 1989, “travels the American TV talk show circuit as the ‘voice of Israel.’”
Two months ago, during the Obama visit to Jerusalem, Blitzer was the one who stirred up on CNN the heckler story who yelled “Pollard”– which very soon appeared to be false.
Wolf Blitzer has not withdrawn his false statement.
(link to my earlier comment, with link to the Blitzer/CNN error:)
https://mondoweiss.net/2013/03/heckler-jonathan-pollard.html#comment-550888
Wolf Blitzer was an AIPAC employee and is featured in a debate wth Norman Finkelstein during the 80s.
Blitzer said something shallow and logically false and Finkelstein pounced on his comment – and the crowd goes wild. Thats more or less how it happened, clip is on YT.
“Ah, I’m actually an atheist.”
So funny, after Blitzer was egging on, waiting for something like, “Oh, I thank baby Jesus.”
So funny. What a dumb, blinkered, arrogant guy he is. Insufferable.
Here’s an old article about Blitzer re his interview with, and reporting on Pollard: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1990/feb/01/territory-of-lies/
The baby’s got the right idea. Take that mic away from Blitzer and never give it back.