For many months, I have watched Blitzer's pathetic attempt at fairness in reporting the news and can't help but wonder if I am the only one that recognizes his constant pandering to the right on just about every important issue.
Blitzer is a passive aggressive reporter who constantly invites Republican party loyalists to 'the situation room', then asks leading questions and quietly listens as they go through their talking points. Blitzer continues to do this time and time again without asking follow-up questions. This guy is pathetic.
He invited Tom Ridge to his "showcase" at 4:30 p.m eastern standard time and played a sound bite of Obama at the VFW, where the Presidential candidate challenged McCain to conduct a civil campaign based on the issues rather than indulge in personal attacks - like questioning Obama's patriotism. At the end of the sound bite, Blitzer asked Ridge what he thought, then sat back quietly as Ridge dodged the question and went into spin mode, belligerently bellowing out one misleading talking point after another.
This incident is the most recent in a series of covertly planned partisan tactics disguised in a robe of fairness in reporting, that is being fed to the general public on a daily basis. Shouldn't Blitzer have followed up with a Democratic rebuttal to Ridge's assertions? One would think so. But it is never a balanced process with this guy.
The fact remains that our news networks have lost their trustworthiness and are causing irreparable harm to the citizens of this great country. Misinformation and misleading journalism ought to be a crime. This is not freedom of speech and the FCC ought to police the networks in a much more efficient manner. There is too much partisanship on the airwaves and it is only worsening. Something needs to be done about this before this Nation gets completely hijacked by the news media. Thank goodness for the Internet.