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...first time CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said “superdelegates,” I didn’t know exactly what to think. One image that came to mind was the Democratic Party’s version of a Harvard admissions booklet: a perfect mix of men, women, young adults, whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians, each from a different state in our beautiful Union, who would represent the Party this summer on stage at the convention. Alternatively, I pictured a contest hosted by Howard Dean to choose which delegates looked best in “Superman?...
...Senator Christopher Dodd had a nice moment in the Democrats' Las Vegas presidential debate. Wolf Blitzer had crashed through Bill Richardson's blowsy, high-minded disquisition on the need to observe human rights in Pakistan, with the question, "What you're saying, Governor, is that human rights, at times, are more important than American national security?" Richardson seemed to gulp: Was I saying that? What do I do now? Uh, can't pull a Hillary. And so, very deer in headlights, he said, "Yes." This gave Blitzer license to ask each candidate the same question. Barack Obama wandered around...
...issues,” as Obama termed them. The issue of driving licenses for illegal immigrants, which tripped up Clinton in the last debate, was rehashed. But what should have been a jumping point for the bigger problem of illegal immigration turned into a political farce. After moderator Wolf Blitzer informed Obama that a “yes” or “no” answer would suffice in indicating his support for giving licenses to undocumented immigrants, Blitzer suggested going down the line and getting a “yes” or “no?...
...course they overdid it. That's why I asked [CNN anchor] Wolf Blitzer on the air, Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead? Because we'd done two hours on this peroxide never-was, passing apparently from some kind of drug overdose in some seedy hotel room in Florida. It's like, who cares? Nobody cares. We've got a war going on in Iraq, we've got budget deficits, we've got yadda-yadda-yadda. It's a dilemma for commercial television, the key word being "commercial." They're in business to make money. How do you make money...
From there, the exaggerations seep into popular discourse. Reporters reinforce the rhetoric. In a question to candidates at a Democratic debate on June 3, CNN's Wolf Blitzer cited the recent arrests: "This alleged plot at J.F.K....could have done, supposedly, horrendous damage and caused an incredible number of casualties...