I'm wondering if, by chance, some recent sharp-tongued criticism by Michael Moore and this community hasn't, in an unfortunate slip of the tongue, left Wolf Blitzer without his treasured balls.
Before the Moore interview, Wolf was so full of piss and vinegar. He questioned to the point of distortion every little Michael Moore fact and figure. The man/legend/"journalist" was, frankly, on fire until Moore doused him with some cold, wet reality.
Now, he's just a shell of his former self. Take his Lieberman interview, for instance.
During an interview with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) on the July 10 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer did not challenge Lieberman's numerous assertions that the U.S. military in Iraq is fighting "Al Qaeda," thus allowing Lieberman to conflate, as the Bush administration has done, the Sunni insurgent group "Al Qaeda in Iraq" with the group responsible for the 9-11 attacks.
Apparently, after the job Moore and this community did on the Lupin Linebacker, he can no longer find the heart or any other organ to question his guests' assertions. Even if those assertions have long since been disproved.
Blitzer could have pointed out that such assertions have been "rejected" by "U.S. military and intelligence officials," according to McClatchy Newspapers. A June 28 McClatchy article reported that these officials "say that Iraqis with ties to al Qaida are only a small fraction of the threat to American troops"...
Wolf's flaccid interview was full of ripe opportunities for him to challenge a Lieberman assertion. The folly would seemingly never stop.
Blitzer also failed to challenge Lieberman's claim that "if we don't win" in Iraq, "they come after us back here at home." As Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, several news outlets have recently reported that security and terrorism experts have challenged the view that terrorists in Iraq will attack Americans inside the United States if U.S. troops withdraw.
It's sad to see this once virile, alpha-dog, male-enhanced "truth seeker" become the docile, little hang dog man who tried pitifully to interview Joe Lieberman. Hell man! You can't even spell the interviewee's name without "Lie." That's a clue!
Come on, Wolf Blitzer, what say you? Are you going to let a few facts, that you happened to stumble on and fall flat on your face, define the rest of your career?
Are you going to mindlessly let obvious lies and distortion travel on their merry path to the public's collective ear?
This isn't the boy your Momma raised is it, Wolf?
Buck up for a minute and ask yourself one question, Wolf. "Do I like fudge?" Yes, you do like it, don't you? Go find the fudge, boy. Go find the fudge.