Blitzer Apologizes for "Any Confusion Caused" by "Department of Jihad?" Chryon
Not much of an apology if you ask me. Wolf Blitzer says CNN is sorry for any "confusion" caused by their "Department of Jihad?" chryon during their segment the previous day -- CNN Only Too Happy To Parrot Liz Cheney's Scare Tactics and Fear Mongering.
Blitzer: I want to give our viewers a note. As we were going to a commercial break yesterday around this time we had a graphic on the screen that said "Department of Jihad?" followed by a question mark. Many of you tweeted me, said you found that graphic to be offensive. I agree. It was.
The graphic referenced a video that Liz Cheney's organization Keep America Safe. Their video features those words on screen questioning the loyalty of Justice Department attorneys who have previously worked on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.
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.
Silly viewers. You were just confused by the chryon. Apparently this fell on deaf ears earlier if Blitzer and CNN are going to pretend the only thing wrong with that segment was the graphic. As Nicole said, feel like giving CNN some feedback on their misinformation? Email them here.
The reasons I quit watching these fool in 2003. Screw em.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that has almost totally destroied our morals and our economy! Not to even mention all the innocent people that have been killed because of their bad decisions!
just the will and ability
the Andrew Johnson administration
ROFLMAO! Good one.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
email him and the main producers about his allowing and pushing the republican agenda..CNN.com This is horrid--he allowed Romney to repeat the talking points yesterday and romeny gave 1 second pause then smurked when wolfie said nothing!
have been taking a giant crap on Eric Holder since the Elian Gonzalez raid in 2000. Can we have an AG under a Democratic president who is treated with at least as much respect as say, Edwin Meese (I know he was Reagan's AG, but that level of respect would be nice - and Meese was a criminal!)
It was quite clear what you meant.
You meant that Liz Cheney had raised a valid and terrifying question that needed to be addressed. And Liz Cheney's question was whether defense lawyers are disloyal Americans simply by virtue of their being defense lawyers.
No confusion at all, Wolf.
The DOJ is being infiltrated.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
by Israeli spies.
The "Situation Room" producers need to sit down and watch the freaking episode in question. Yikes! They should preferably put a laugh track on it to reveal what's really coming off this stuff.
When will this delusional CNN crap end? Do they ever get out of the studio? Are they harboring a terrible secret? Greed? Stupidity? Lack of interest in changing?
Wolf! Baby! Come on! We're gonna need ya to start thinking about what you are doing, and then make the appropriate adjustments to your routine.
You don't want to be known as the Wolf who cried boy, do you? Keep it up and they'll want you over at FOX Terror Theatre.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
For confusing the public by pretending to be a competent news organization.
And not only was your graphic offensive, so are you Wolf for shamelessly shilling for your lame masters. You are just another weakling coward in it for the money. Who needs integrity when you can just cash in?
Fuck you, pal, and you can jam your insincere "apology.".
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
I only confused CNN with a news organization when they were among the first to put boots on the ground in Haiti. I hope some folks got helped by their "me first" policy.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
You did your job. Problem is, they don't do theirs! They are part of a right-wing CABAL, & Wolfie is one of the main villains.
I only confused CNN with a news organization when they were among the first to put boots on the ground in Haiti. I hope some folks got helped by their "me first" policy.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Found great comfort in CNN's boastful hype. With shallow and insensitive "friends" like them---who needs enemies?
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
but it seems like Chile is getting the shorter end of the aid stick in terms of coverage. Maybe that's all OK, but being hungry is being hungry. I've rarely seen CNN give out numbers/links for the Chileans. Come to think of it, All quiet on the Haitian front too. F*ckin' Palin/Leno coverage just too impotent, I guess...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Our MSM has their priorities you know---who needs stories on genuine human suffering when their shallow and trivial soap opera stars are languishing from lack of attention!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
You're sure to get a raise!
LMAO! Another good one.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
At the end, Wolfie looks down and away from the camera, giving the whole thing a dismissive, pro forma feel. I know, I know, how could I doubt the sincerity of Wolf Blitzer?
like my late father. And though my dad, rest his soul, could be a condescending pr*ck, I'd never mistake him for the Boy Who Cries 'Wolf'.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
It was plainly clear that Wolf Blitzer and CNN hate America and all it stands for. They hate truth and justice, it was plain and simple, nothing confusing about it.
but to Israel. Pay close attention.
Obligatory Dumb As A Box Of Hammers link
Anodated? Anodated? WTF is anodated?
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
Annotation by anodisation?
me-oww!
"We're sorry you assholes weren't as stupid as we thought. Those people are all watching FOX."
me-oww!
"You people are morons and will believe anything anyone with a camera pointed at them tells you to believe. On behalf of the corporate media and its airwaves, I personally extend my most sincere apologies. It won't happen again. Honest."
Sincerely, Wolf
There was absolutely no confusion here. It was aiding and abetting Liz Cheney's desperate attempts to save her father's murderous legacy as the guy who enabled torture and pissed on the basis of Western law and the idea of justice.
And Wolf Blitzer smirked throughout. That was no apology, there was no confusion. CNN and Blitzer, a horrible place for horrible people, allegedly telling us the news. Oh, but we're such stupid sheep we might be "confused". Go to hell, "Wolf", you pathetic excuse for a journalist, with your comically made-up name.
it was quite common for the German Nazi elite that immigrated to America after WWII to take names like that which they considered to be oh so cute. Tough 'manly' names, the aggressive wolf blitzing into America to rebuild their empire here.
But of course, the nut who flew an airplane into an IRS building wasn't a terrorist, nor the guy who tried to shoot up the Pentagon. Those were red-blooded, true, loyal Americans, but the lawyers at DOJ are terrorists. Yep! Got it! Clear as mud!
Since the onset of chyron becoming automated and content controlled, entered, and occasionally proofed by producers and "news" people only with no operator buffer, the content of your national and local news has gone straight into the crapper. The "news" depts are completely run by corporate agendas, and sometimes the personal RW political agenda of the producers and station managers.
Of course, the right to defend oneself is in the Constitution, but these idiots have never read that document since they are illiterate. Oh, oh! You mean our toilet paper. Yep!
Let's not forget what the Bush/Cheney Despot administration did to Lynn Stewart.
"...previously worked on behalf of Guantanamo detainees." Isn't legal defense a constitutional requirement? I thought the constitution was to be defended at all costs?
I'm sick of these people picking and choosing which parts of a document will apply when.
"the constitution is just a piece of paper."
Liz Cheney is pretty full of shit too, but c-mon CNN there is no way that got up there by accident. Some one had to know what they were doing, there is no other way for that to appear.
The difference between Fox and CNN is that Fox is blatant Repug / right wing , they don't worry about it , you watch or you don't , CNN and the like pretend that they are objective , have integrity , and that it's serious journalism . As for Liz Cheney's organization , it's is going to be the new loonie central , a bunch of neocon, Bill Krystol is part of her group and one of the organizers . Dick blessed us with a turd that will still be with us long after he's gone .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
No matter how many times you flush, a Cheney keeps poping back up.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
correct!!!!!!! NEO-CONS all!!!
Cheney and Blitzer are so batshit crazy anti-American they almost make the Hitler financing Bush family look..... well not quite as anti-American.
Since I began getting my current events from the Internet over ten years ago, I only watch local news on TV. News on TV is already obsolete when the stories are presented, kind of like newspapers, but without the effort for recycling.
Proud DFH, emeritus!
Do these republican cowards like Dick Cheney who never served a day in the military also think the military lawyers who represented the detainees are unpatriotic?
It is unseemly to pick on Wolf Blitzer. After all, he is just continuing the job that he used to get directly paid for as spokesman for AIPAC!
AIPAC, as the U.S. front for the Likud Party, wants war with Iran and anything done to discredit The Chosen One is appropriate. If Obama was a full supporter of neo-con philosophy, this would not be necessary.
SadOldVet
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or so they say -- and you can't tell me that the people at CNN didn't realize how this chryon could be interpreted and why it was so offensive. The fact that they broadcast it anyway suggests that they simply didn't care -- and this renders their so-called apology insincere and meaningless.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
Just boycott CNN and Wolfman. They are the second Faux Noise.
their usual stinking,steaming pile of crap for consumption by the American people.
My ma called it hash.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovofupVE0c
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
not glad to see nothing has changed in five years
"Terrible" commentator thinks WWII "Nazis" escaped to the US and
changed their names--first off I don't think the US accepted any
Nazis after the war,secondly Wolfgang Blitzer's name is most cer-
tainly of German origin,but so are millions of German Jewish names:
i.e. Rosenstein,Goldblatt,Greenspan(Gruenspan),Spitzer,Blumberg,
Silberstein,Braunstein--everything with "stein" (stone) in it.By the
way "stein"is not pronounced "steen"but "stine"--otherwise it would
be Albert EENSTEEN or Diane FEENSTEEN,right? THis is a free lesson
in pronounciation,boys and girls from a well meaning former Berliner
who should know.!Mr. Wolfgang is just doing his job and gets his
orders from the Fuehrer Hauptquartier in Tel Aviv. Schalom!
Or is it AIPAC apologist?
don't look up operation paperclip, it'll keep your delusions intact
We used to watch CNN a lot, had it on as background when doing housework on the weekend, etc. Now, they're useless, except for Fareed Zakaria.
Wolf Blitzer is one of the worst they have. He may be tired from moonlighting as the mayor of Whoville, but that's no excuse for his slack performance. Campbell Brown is a zero, Don Lemon of the giant eyes pretty much just seems to read people's twitters (nice gig), but Wolf just lets the right wingers say what they will and acts like it's fact.
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