Wolf Blitzer apologizes for 'Department of Jihad' graphic

[Enrique]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/wolf-blitzer-apologizes-f_n_488257.html

CNN's Wolf Blitzer has apologized for using chyron text that seemed to question the loyalties of the Department of Justice.

On Thursday, CNN broadcast text that read "HAPPENING NOW, DEPARTMENT OF JIHAD?" and "Are Justice Department Lawyers Disloyal?" as part of its coverage of an ad by Liz Cheney that suggests that because the DOJ hired lawyers who have represented accused terrorists, the department is sympathetic to terrorists.

On Friday, Blitzer apologized for the graphic and called DOJ lawyers "patriotic."

"CNN had no intention of suggesting that the Justice Department supports terrorism. Lawyers at the Justice Department are patriotic Americans and we certainly regret any confusion that may have been caused by our graphic."

[EFerrari]

1. Go, Rachel!

lol

[upi402]

2. "just askin' " journalism

Corporate News Network. meh

[RedCloud]

3. Stick him back in the Middle East to watch him squirm in fear again.

Wolf doesn't seem like the right name for him.

[Ken Burch]

4. Yeah right, Wolf...like that was all just a collective brain fart!

Dude must be really pissed that he hasn't been able to report on "Operation Wham, Bam, Thanks Imam!", or whatever the Pentagon would call the bombing of Tehran.

[BlueIdaho]

5. What a total shit that little runt is.

Its a shame he's a celebutant instead of a journalist.

[bridgit]

6. CNN has been making a not so veiled play for Fox's tea-nut-bagger demographic...

[gratuitous]

7. Sorry, not buyin' it

This report didn't "just happen." It was put together with an idea behind it and an axe to grind. The chyron was just the cherry on a shit sundae of a report. Blitzer wouldn't have dared to do that during the Bush administration.

[alp227]

8. Unlike Fox, Uncle CNN corrects itself

Fox requires MediaMatters.org and NewsHounds.us to correct itself.

[babylonsister]

9. Glenn Greenwald called wolfie out and he caved!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7848437

Glenn Greenwald: The full-scale collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer

[sam sarrha]

10. make him resign..

[TwilightGardener]

11. What an awful suggestion, that they are traitors--shame on Wolf for regurgitating

the bullshit the Cheney family feeds him.

[Zoeisright]

12. Fuck you, Blitzer.

You're an asshole, 'Leslie'. Wolf my ass.

[DebbieCDC]

13. Demand that wolf return that Edward R. Murrow award

Christ, Murrow's spinning in his grave this very minute.

[Vinnie From Indy]

14. Leslie Blitzer is a frickin' moron and CNN is the "crack" cocaine of distraction & propaganda

Quite simply, 98% of television/cable news is a grotesque carnival freak show of nonsense. Leslie Blitzer is merely an obscenely paid carnival barker.

[Zomby Woof]

18. Credit Senator Al Franken

He invented the entire JOKE that Wolf's name is "Leslie" at a WH Correspondents Dinner back in the early 90's. Blitzer is a scumbag, but his real name is Wolf (short for Wolfgang).

Cracks me up how this joke has become some sort of gospel at DU, but why am I not surprised?


Source: "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" by Al Franken.

[VanW]

15. CNN = Certainly Not News

aka Contains No News

aka Complete Nonsense Network

[OHdem10]

16. This is what happens to journalists when they try to hard to

imitate the Righties.

Wolf, First to thine ownself be true and then you cannot
be false to any man.

[Marr]

17. The problem isn't a silly headline, Blitzer... Christ.

It's the fact that they are so anxious to let the far right frame the debate. Who *cares* what the Cheneys say? It is not relevant. Dick Cheney is a former VP, for Christ sake, and a private citizen.

Can you imagine Al Gore being allowed to frame every debate and dominate the news cycle with a little press release? It's absurd.