Blitzer Says "Bye Bye" To Late Edition
By Nicole Belle Sunday Jan 11, 2009 7:01pm
I didn't realize it when I wrote the Bobblehead post this morning that today is the final airing of Late Edition. Host Wolf Blitzer signed off the program with a good-bye and thanks to his production team.
Now normally, I'd be happy as a clam over one less program and disingenuous "journalist" to deal with, but Blitzer and Late Edition are leaving to make room for John King and "State of the Union".
That's right, the same John King who said that Obama should worry about being too left. The same John King that played down CNN polls favorable to Obama during the election. The same John King that read a statement from Kissinger criticizing Obama without noting that it was based on a false statement. The same John King who blasted Glenn Greenwald for daring to suggest that King was a mite bit biased towards John McCain in his coverage.
So in our post-partisan afterglow of an election that decisively showed the country moving to the left and embracing our agenda, CNN gives up on Late Edition and brings us....John King?
That's a finger on the pulse of the nation.
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In response to Colbert thanking John King and the rest of the media for getting Obama elected, King responds "If your point is perhaps Barack Obama is in for a New World Order, then I think you are correct."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXwzPQruuw
Douchebag.
I think CNN and John King would like a chocolate covered pretzel.
;>)
Okay Brodie... I'll buy the pretzels if you add the "chocolate."
That's a finger TO the pulse of the nation.
why is it always the same finge?
why so happy, WB? could it be that even though you will not be getting nearly as big a paycheck, as long as there are innocent Palestinian children getting phosphorus bombed, he will be as happy as a clam.
never ever forget that wolfie rose to fame as the chief spokesperson for AIPAC. you know, the jewish bribery arm in washington. ever wonder why we give those jerks the money to run the largest prison camp in the world? AIPAC. that's why.
I don't watch daytime TV, so I missed it, but yeesh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqysLwhRMcA
Neocon Stooge and Corporate Prostitute - John King. Keep up the good work Johnny bending the truth.
"an election that decisively showed the country moving to the left and embracing our agenda"
Uh, I would say the election was anything but decisive concerning a movement to the right or left, considering how close the two previous were, and a spread of only 7% this time. That's even allowing that the election is a good indicator of such movement in the first place, which is debatable at the very least. Also, I think it is assuming too much to say the election shows an embrace of the 'left' agenda by the masses, way too much. I think it is a safer bet that the election was an indicator of a rejection of the extreme policies the Republicans pushed when they controlled things. Wouldn't it be wiser to maybe take a lesson from that, and not make such a broad assumption? I for one lean left, but still reject anything extreme from either side. I would also like to think most Americans aren't closed minded enough to take on a one-sided agenda wholesale, as that is just intellectual laziness.
after seeing them blow this last election if we didn't see all of the corporate media making a huge right turn in coming months.
they don't need to turn any further to the right. they are already using limpballs' talking points.
when I watch TV, did I see Woolfie (Leslie) hide under his desk during a shelling? Getting old, losing memory.
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Nothing says Free Speech and open exchange of ideas like a partisan hack like King, NO?
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Nope! /snark
Anderson Cooper is on my shit list also for picking on Rachael and her style of reporting. Anderson may be the slickest of the bunch with his" if you want the truth I`ll give it to ya " bullshit but he is bent.
You have a link.
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Well,Wolf had been head of AIPAC before joining CNN...I guess there's a certain continuity of CNN and defense of Israel,now, with King.
No Jew bashing now. You might end up with an air strike or phosphorous bomb in your neighborhood thanks to AIPAC.
Funny, if you bash black people here, you get a site monitor warning, bash jewish people and it's considered valid discussion.
Jewish people, much like black people, are not one monolithic unit, and do not agree on everything, and are definitely not part of some worldwide conspiracy. It's no more proper to bash Jewish people as a group for Israel's actions than it is to bash Islamic people for the actions of Hamas or Al Qaeda ... it's a logically incorrect assumption since membership in one logical group (Jewish or Islamic) does not imply membership in another (Israeli militants/government, Hamas or Al Queda).
There are plenty of Jewish people who are ashamed of Israel for killing people, no matter their perceived rationale. Besides, it's not like Israel has the monopoly on bombing civilians, I think they learned from the best.
{ We don't allow bashing of any race. It's really that simple. Black/White, Jewish/Muslim or any other combination. We have more people on the banned list for being Anti Semetic than any other group.
The Arab haters are catching up though.SiteMonitors}
Paranoid fucker.
But I think it is fair to point out that many members of Bush's administration are Zionists or are Zionist supporters (eg. Feith, Wolfowitz) and policy was created based on those sympathies. The Iraq War in no small part was undertaken to the benefit of Israel, just ask Richard Clarke. If that sounds racist or anti-semitic, then too bad, cuz its the truth.
They got rid of Dumb and replaced him with Dumber---thanks so little, CNN. Just one more reason to watch someone else.
And I don't have cable.
Send Wolfie to Gaza to do a few "special reports". Get back to us when the shelling is over, OK?
and in keeping with CNN's new show....
i give them both my middle fingers.
thanks for another lower bar moron.
This will change, emmmm nothing in my life since I don't watch CNN, JOY!
The quality of "journalism" on CNN has really gone down the toilet lately. MSNBC isn't even a real news channel, all weekend long they've been showing crime reality shows, what a joke of a "news" network. Faux is absolute garbage as everybody knows. Corporate news is in serious trouble, I don't see it lasting much longer into the next decade.
John King and David Gregory - the two pillars of Sunday morning journalism. Who ever thought it would come to this???
yep! I actually did.
preach-o-mercials and infomercials on Sunday instead.
HIRED GLEN BECK.
How about once King shows his colors we bombard CNN with messages that this is no way to do what's best for our country?
with glen beck!
I guess so. NO MORE Sunday viewing for me.
Might as well be watching Fox News. NOT!!!
the hate will be raised quite a bit.
I say screw the commentaries altogether until the republicans are purged from the media.
That's your "librul" media at work!
I'm certain they would cherish his return.
"So Poor and So Black"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrsjZN47C6k
What an ass.
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
I wish that all the socalled cable news shows would crumble.
Such bullshit and lies, never correcting the wingnut fools when they start spouting lies.
If they remove wolf and the whole fox channel it would be a good start.
If you don't like him, don't watch him. Don't give these guys support by watching to "see what the enemy is doing" just don't turn them on or discuse them and they fade away. These are commercial beings that sell airtime; they're there to sell foot powder.
He'll be missed....by war loving, brown people genociding, shit for brains 23%ers.
How about this guy for a replacement to wolf-wolf?
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/imag...
how much further "right" can these people go? !
I'd rather see them
I recall candidate GW Bush doing an interview with Wolfie..........a
softball interview. The kind of interview where loafer throwing was
taking place in households across America.
A commercial break came up and the microphones were live as the camera
shut down.
Paraphrasing.....
Wolfie: "Please give my best wishes to your wonderful parents. It
was great seeing them."
GW: "Sure will Wolf. He-he! They love ya.!"
This was BEFORE THE EIGHT LONG HORRIFIC YEARS OF BUSHCO!
Now, CNN is giving the public EIGHT YEARS OF JOHN KING?
Well, we will have to see if John King continues saying whatever his
producer writes for him or if he will break away and become
a reporter with integrity and professionalism.
He is off to a very bad start, just like Wolfie.
WAKE UP, JOHN!
Look around: AMERICA AND THE WORLD HAVE HAD -----ENOUGH!
This should come as no surprise, CNN stands for Corporate News Network. The faces may change but the message stays the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJeF5MuQB2g
To bad his replacement is the (KING RightWing) Talking Head and
RightWing ASS-kisser John King.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4Wn63uof8
Wow - what a change at CNN. Is that the same Jon King, the Catholic who converted to Judaism not because he had to to marry his wife, but because he really wants to. Yeah, Catholic converts to Judaism, that makes for some good perspectives ahead.
An AIPAC mouthpiece is replaced with a rightwing mouthpiece. Big surprise there.
And yet I hear morons again and again calling CNN "leftist". WHERE, for crying out loud?
Time Warner is a company that is on my death watch. This is another sign. Cnn half the time makes me want to puke the other half I'm watching something else. When you're nostalgic for Ted Turner you know you're in trouble.
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