CNN Linking Tsunami Aid to Osama Bin Laden

[Vinnie From Indy]

Wolf Blitzer was just discussing the tsunami aid effort with William Cohen. His first question was "Why should we give money to the tsunami victims if they support Osama Bin Laden?". He then puts a picture up of some poor wretched soul in Indonesia wearing an Osama Bin Laden t-shirt as he begs for water. Cohen seemed to stunned by the question and he said that we shouldn't let anything stop us from contributing to ease the suffering of so many fellow human beings. Wolf, ever the media whore, wouldn't let up and then he let's all his viewers know that there sure are alot of Muslims over there in them islands and shouldn't the rich Muslim countries be paying for their rescue. Tens of millions of people were affected by the tsunami and CNN & Wolf Blitzer find a picture of one guy wearing an Osama T-shirt and they start to question the US role in the relief effort. What a stinking pile of crap our modern American media profession has become. Simply amazing!

[lostnfound]

1. Speechless. nt

[rodeodance]

4. They get their cues from the WH!! clueless as how it will come across

to the world!!!! gods!!

[rodeodance]

10. time to email the so called 'journalist"!! [e-mail]

CNN, Wolf Blitzer, [e-mail]
CNN Headline News, CNN Headline News, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?33

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. I just shot him an e-mail.

It's sentiment like this that makes me hang my head in shame.

[MnFats]

2. You had to figure this would come up...and sure as hell..

...
we got nutty preachers talking about how "christian" nations were spared and the "heathen" nations were smote.

"The gap between creed and conduct is greatest among the Christians." -Gandhi

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. There's a warm spot in Hell reserved for Wolf Blitzer

And anyone who uses this disaster as a political or ideological crutch.

[Goathead]

5. I'd like to see Wolf Blitzer get mauled by a pack of his own namesake

Now that would be news. I'd pay $9.95 to watch that on Pay-per-View.

[DemOperative]

9. A pack of rabid Chihuahuas would be better

more painful from those pinchy-bitees

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Better yet, the same pack of dingoes I wished upon Fred Phelps

earlier in the day:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2339200&mesg_id=2339274

[Divernan]

6. Now will the New York Times do a snide article about this?

Like they did attacking the blogs/DU because some people asked questions (and received intelligent, science based answers) on whether there was a connection between underwater earthmovements and global warming?
Nah - they'll ignore racist hatefilled commentators like Blitzer.

[Elidor]

7. Simply beyond the pale

That is wrong on so many levels that I don't know where to begin. A new low, even for Blitzer. Worthless POS.

[porkrind]

8. What a tool.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Leslie Blitzer must've gotten his daily PNAC talking points.

What a dick. Are the aid workers supposed to ask each of those poor bastards whether he supports OBL, and if he says yes, they can't give him that little bag of rice? Get a clue, Leslie: If the U.S. cheaps out on sending aid, it will provide the Al Qaeda recruiters one more reason to give these people for hating us. Nobody has done more to boost the Osama Fan Club than George Wanker Bush.

[Deja Q]

12. Yup, God just killed 100,000 OBL supporters.

:eyes:

Bush* stopped caring about OBL in March 2002 and even said as much. Never mind how he helped the Bin Laden family flee the US immediately after 9/11 which seems more suspicious than coincidental. But maybe his family knows where OBL is...?

[Gothic Sponge]

13. Stop watching State Television.

[wtmusic]

14. Let him know

Blitzer's email at CNN:

[e-mail]

What a prick.

Wolf,

Why should we give money to someone with an Osama t-shirt? Because he's suffering, Wolf. Because they're not rich, overpaid, Bush Administration shills like you. You see one t-shirt and suddenly the purpose of the whole American relief effort is in question. I guess the insinuation is that people who disagree with the American dominionist point of view should die, no?

Your statements were beyond idiotic: they were insensitive, ignorant, despicable.

wtmusic

[zbird]

16. The picture is posted on that idiot Neal Boortz's page.

Unfortunately, my husband is a Bushbot and reads that dreck. Boortz was spinning the same garbage lines too.

[plcdude]

18. you have my

deepest sympathy how do you live with it?

[zbird]

19. It hasn't been easy these past couple of years.

We have agreed to disagree. The kids are philosophically with me, though. We homeschool, and I do about 99% of the teaching, so they get a very liberal curriculum.

[Vinnie From Indy]

20. Boortz is an idiots idiot n/t

[jellybelly]

21. well,

if there are victims that hate America I'm sure they won't accept our aid...we shouldn't question giving aid just because there are people who hate us...These media bitches have no logic..:scared:

[electric-eye]

22. Mostly Muslim

How effn' low will we go?

The dead Iraqis don't matter, and neither do any of these brown people.

They're just Muslims.

You know, with my trusty tin hat, the fact that this disaster was visited on mostly Muslim countries makes me wonder about a few things.