So what kind of lame warped logic is Wolf Blitzer pushing when he suggests, by asking the question,

[IsItJustMe]

that Raum Emmanual could face criminal charges if Blogo tried to create a quid pro quo with him and Emmanual walked away from it.

My god, I hear people say crazy shit all the time. Does that mean that it is my responsibility to go to the authorities or I could somehow be charged with something for the actions and responsibilities of someone else.

Wolf is a warped. The media and the Republican party are trying to knee cap and cripple Obama before he even gets in office.

Don't these people know that they are playing with fire. We are sitting on the edge of the world and these people are trying to push us off of it.

Sometimes I think that they don't realize that we are all in this boat together.

[ensho]

1. Wolf can't help himself, he lives in a closet at CNN

nt

[Overseas]

2. People don't realize how much the media has consolidated into right wing hands

From 50 owners in the 80's down to only 5 right now. Huge conglomerates in right wing hands.

http://www.corporations.org/media/


Not enough people have read "What Liberal Media?" by Eric Alterman www.whatliberalmedia.com
He goes into great detail regarding various right wing funded campaigns to push our national discourse to the right. I had not realized how much of the rightward trend was actually an organized effort until I read his book.

After reading What Liberal Media? you will understand that the real news story of recent years is not whether this newspaper, or that news anchor, is biased but rather to what extent the entire news industry is organized to communicate conservative views and push our politics to the right—regardless of how “liberal” any given reporter may be.

One of the famous techniques of the right has been to "play the Ref"-- to accuse the media of liberal bias so they will skew their reporting more to the right to prove they are not biased.

We've seen the success of the concerted conservative campaign to push the national dialog to the right through media ownership and various think tanks and other mechanisms over the past few decades.

Wolf seems to be continuing that tradition. And the conservatives seem all set to continue their clobbering campaign for as long as their media monopolies are allowed to remain in tact.

I hope we will get some anti-trust action to break up those huge media conglomerates.

[marylanddem]

3. He is asking a legitimate question. Much as I love Obama,

if Emanuel walked away from a quid-pro-quo offer without reporting it, that's just fucking wrong.

[qazplm]

4. whether or not it is wrong

it is most certainly not criminal.

You do not become a part of a conspiracy by saying no and walking away, not how it works. And there is no legal duty in criminal law to report anything.

Now there may be a statutory duty for government officials, that I do not know.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Gee!! I wonder how many times Wolfie witness something criminal without reporting it?

[goclark]

13. Every day for eight years Wolfie stayed silent

or told bold lies to protect Bushco.

He is living in a house made of glass.

[WinkyDink]

11. Educators are by law required to report suspicion of child abuse.

[IsItJustMe]

14. Has any teacher ever been charged for not reporting suspected child abuse. I very much doubt it.

You can not expect people to be clairvoyant and psychologists all rolled up in one.

Sometimes things are black and white, but that is seldom the case.

[dansolo]

6. How do we know that he didn't report it?

[Bucky]

9. Now you're just being sillly

If you insist on looking at the full context of what people say, you're gonna miss out on a lot of faux outrage.

In the OP's defense, it does seem like the media is going out of its way to draw connections between Obama's team and the Blagojevich scandal.

[Hawkowl]

10. You miss the point entirely

Obama isn't even president yet and the media is all over him manufacturing scandal and hyping nonsense. "We're going to hold him accountable!" they crow. This is the mantra I hear on CNN the 2 minutes at a time I can stand it.

Meanwhile, Bush, who still is president, continues to break laws at will with no MSM coverage at all. No accountability, no repercussions. NOTHING.

Obama needs to go after the MSM once he takes office, with all the power of the presidency. Break up these corporate monopolies that spew nothing but misinformation and propaganda against the best interests of the people of this country.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Its not only you. When that asshole Wolfie goes on and on about this...

I wanna throw a brick at his fucking head

The Whole fucking Planet is falling apart. Our Nation is falling apart. and he is asking these kinds of moot/minutiae shit questions..?

SOMEONE...get the HOOK and yank his ass off the stage/set....

He is not helping ...he is blathering

[EFerrari]

7. Just his usual lame warped logic that starts off with a false premise. n/t

[uponit7771]

12. He shows bits of being sloppy and unprofessional in the last 8 years, I'm not surprised by him or ..

..Steph