Blitzer in the Bush Leagues

Watching Wolf Blitzer on the Daily Show tonight felt the same as watching an alcoholic deny a drinking problem from a jail cell after being arrested for the 20th DUI.

John Stewart was his usual glib, insightful self. He is, bar none, the best political interviewer working right now. He asked Blitzer "...In light of the Senate Report on the integrity of CIA Intelligence in the run up to the war, did the press corps fail to investigate the intelligence because it was the victim of group think or, in another word, retardation?"

After the laughter died down, Blitzer answered, "It was group think." He then rattled off all of the people and institutions he sourced before he did his shows from Kuwait. Guess what: They were all from the administration-- Condoleezza Rice, Bush, the CIA, Members of Congress, Senators. "I mean everyone was convinced there were stockpiles of WMD in Iraq," Blitzer concluded.

Now a highly paid professional blogger, such as myself, would do things a little differently than Wolf. I might check the veracity of the story I was being told. I might wonder if there was a hidden agenda. I might try to seek out and verify an opposing story. I might wonder if there were people who thought that, maybe, just maybe, the existence of WMD in Iraq couldn't be proven. People like weapons inspectors Hans Blix and David Kay, for example. I might be skeptical.

I wonder if it ever occurred to Blitzer and the rest of the overpaid journalistic dilettantes to actually do their jobs. At least the New York Times had the decency to apologize for it's complicity in funneling lies to the American public. One would think media stars such as Wolf Blitzer would have the self-awareness and the integrity to examine their own role in the same. How do you get a story so utterly and completely wrong and continue to think your sources are any good? How can you stick your naked face on TV every day and give information that is absolutely false and not be really, really pissed off at the people that used you so badly?


How, Wolf, can you not go to great lengths to explain how and why you were played for such a fool?

Are you still in group think mode or are you just retarded?