Wolf Blitzer: I Believed Rep. Weiner’s Line That Somebody Else Hacked His Account

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by Josh Feldman | 3:31 pm, June 7th, 2011

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Of all the interviews Anthony Weiner had last week, his sit-down with Wolf Blitzer was one of the most interesting. Weiner seemed relatively calm and collected, denying he tweeted the picture while not ruling out the possibility that it was a picture of him.

Well, after yesterday’s increasingly bizarre press conference, Blitzer appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight to reflect on his interview with the congressman and how he was convinced Weiner was telling the truth about his Twitter account being hacked.

It sounds to me like it may have been his picture but it was out there but somebody else hacked it and somebody else sent it out to embarrass him. I… believed that line, especially when some technology experts were telling me that there were certain Twitter, you know, TweetPic [sic] opportunities where it’s not that difficult to… look like somebody else is sending a picture that, really, you’re sending.

Morgan asked Blitzer if any politician had ever lied to Blitzer as blatantly as Weiner did in the interview. Blitzer was reminded of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, when he was in the room with other pool reporters when Bill Clinton uttered his infamous “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” line. However, he also used the Clinton analogy to point out that all these years later, the former president remains very popular despite his sex scandal, which was, arguably, more damaging than Weiner’s.

Morgan wanted to know if Blitzer sees himself as a “barometer” for lying politicians, and whether most people should just assume that politicians are always engaging in falsehoods. Blitzer admitted that “there are plenty of liars out there,” but added that most lies are not blatant, but more subtle, in order to make them more believable.

Watch an excerpt of Blitzer’s interview below, courtesy of CNN:

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TeaPartyNation

“Wolf Blitzer: I Believed Rep. Weiner’s Line That Somebody Else Hacked His Account”

Is there any wonder why the c(lowns)n(itwits and socialist)n(attering nabobs) network is ALWAYS in the ratings toilet?
tatboy

Wolf Blitzer: I Believed Rep. Weiner’s Line That Somebody Else Hacked His Account

Wolf is no longer a good source of info. He is a fool and a joke.
mmars

This guy is sooo in the Democrat tank its no wonder he says that he believed him. He was supposed to believe that Breitbart hacked the account according to the Dem operatives.
tatboy

It become more and more clear everyday that the Dems own the MSM lock, stock, and 2 loaded barrels. Katie of CBS comes to mind. Or Vivian Shiller from PBS fame. It never ends.
WCinWI

tatboy said:
It become more and more clear everyday that the Dems own the MSM lock, stock, and 2 loaded barrels. Katie of CBS comes to mind. Or Vivian Shiller from PBS fame. It never ends.

Don’t forget Zakaria. CNN went off my “Caring about what CNN has to say” when that story came out. I saw Zakaria confess to talks with the President. Epic fail CNN.
cjd ohio 1

With all the holes in weiner’s story and wolf believed him, wow what a reporter
Colorado_Conservative

“the former president remains very popular despite his sex scandal”

the former president remains very popular among Democrats and Liberals despite his sex scandal.

There..fixed it!
TfT

Of course he believed him; democrats always fall for the lies of other democrats.

Oh and Clinton’s wasn’t a sex scandal, it was a lie scandal…lying to the courts isn’t a smart thing to do. They both lied to the public, and Weiner used congressional resources. But given the media is always on the side of the democrats, they have a better chance of surviving the issues, because people like Wolf Blitzer will beleive them and then spread their lies; Blitzer only questions republicans, he pants at democrats.

it isthe way it is; CNN has anchors who are advisors to the sitting president, and they fail to reveal that. Not to be trusted, the complete nonsense network.
jerrybobphil

Of course he did Wolf is a complete idiot.
Jackyboy

Really Wolf? Does journalistic integrity mean anything to you?
jo hoochie

jerrybobphil said:
Of course he did Wolf is a complete idiot.

All the liberal left media are!! They just don’t care what their party is doing. They never look into what might be going on. The very reason I listen to Fox!!
ModerateMan

Where’s Jeffrey Toobin now? He was certain that Weiner was telling the truth and mocked everyone that was seriously looking at the story. He has more explaining to do than Wolf Blitzer.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thom-Wilkerson/1205833989 auzerais310

Just to prove how much a total idiot Wolf Blitzer is, watch his stunningly awful appearance on Jeopardy! where he ended up $4600 in the RED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVC28oemocA

And don’t forget how CNN’s flaunted “journalistic integrity” took a fatal FAIL when it was admitted that CNN spiked any number of stories about Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers, etc, because they ‘wanted to stay in Iraq.
Big Eddie

Real journalists are skeptical of everyone and they don’t buddy up any of ‘em .

Toobin came off looking even worse than Weiner and should never be on TV anywhere .
I’m prejudiced here , because I kind of like Jeff Greenfield .

Zakaria should pack his bindle and be gone , too .

Amanpour and her ties to Soros should get her kicked out , also .
brownsound

Behold the Face of the Modern Left
June 7, 2011 12:15 P.M.
By Michael Walsh

In his combination of unctuousness, mendacity, mock-reasonableness, petulance, bullying, hypocrisy, overweening arrogance, brazen aggression, self-pity, victimhood, and bogus moral preening, it’s hard to beat Congressman Anthony Weiner. He’s the perfect face of the modern American Left in all its glorious pathology; why anyone takes these people seriously is utterly beyond me, so transparent are they. And yet for some, their sweet nothings continue to resonate.

Here he is with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, doing what lefties do best: lie, equivocate, lecture, browbeat, and implicitly threaten, even when they’re caught red-handed:

I mean, how hard was it to see through Tony Weiner? Or an even worse mountebank, John Edwards, who positively oozed phoniness from every pore — and yet somehow wound up on the Democratic ticket as the sidekick to another pretentious poseur, John Kerry? Not to mention Maerose Prizzi as Speaker of the House for four infelicitous years. In a bad sign for the Big Tone, Maerose has fired a warning shot across his bow with her call for an ethics investigation; Weiner ought to take the hint and pack it in.

By comparison, a genial snake-oil salesman like Bill Clinton comes off as a somewhat lovable rogue, if you don’t count the cost to the nation of his perjury and its continuing repercussions. The country is paying a heavy price for the media’s childish celebration of what a good liar Clinton was — the problem is that much less good liars have proliferated in his wake.

Indeed, it’s as if the party of Jefferson has been taken over by the Duke and the Dauphin from Huckleberry Finn, always on the lookout for suckers and easy marks: Sad to say, such willing suspenders of disbelief seem to comprise about half of the electorate these days.

As I said back on Election Night 2008: ”This is an unlovely party filled with unlovely people, as America’s about to find out once the Obama pixie dust wears off.”

Take a good look, America.
Jaurez

Well, duh! Wolfie is PAYED to believe and uphold the beliefs the democrat party!
jo hoochie

brownsound said:
Behold the Face of the Modern LeftJune 7, 2011 12:15 P.M.By Michael Walsh In his combination of unctuousness, mendacity, mock-reasonableness, petulance, bullying, hypocrisy, overweening arrogance, brazen aggression, self-pity, victimhood, and bogus moral preening, it’s hard to beat Congressman Anthony Weiner. He’s the perfect face of the modern American Left in all its glorious pathology; why anyone takes these people seriously is utterly beyond me, so transparent are they. And yet for some, their sweet nothings continue to resonate. Here he is with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, doing what lefties do best: lie, equivocate, lecture, browbeat, and implicitly threaten, even when they’re caught red-handed: I mean, how hard was it to see through Tony Weiner? Or an even worse mountebank, John Edwards, who positively oozed phoniness from every pore — and yet somehow wound up on the Democratic ticket as the sidekick to another pretentious poseur, John Kerry? Not to mention Maerose Prizzi as Speaker of the House for four infelicitous years. In a bad sign for the Big Tone, Maerose has fired a warning shot across his bow with her call for an ethics investigation; Weiner ought to take the hint and pack it in. By comparison, a genial snake-oil salesman like Bill Clinton comes off as a somewhat lovable rogue, if you don’t count the cost to the nation of his perjury and its continuing repercussions. The country is paying a heavy price for the media’s childish celebration of what a good liar Clinton was — the problem is that much less good liars have proliferated in his wake. Indeed, it’s as if the party of Jefferson has been taken over by the Duke and the Dauphin from Huckleberry Finn, always on the lookout for suckers and easy marks: Sad to say, such willing suspenders of disbelief seem to comprise about half of the electorate these days. As I said back on Election Night 2008: ”This is an unlovely party filled with unlovely people, as America’s about to find out once the Obama pixie dust wears off.” Take a good look, America.

The liberal left media Never looks into anything that might make the democrats look bad. They have forgotten how to dig for information. They are bought and paid for to keep their mouths shut for fear of losing their jobs, losing these little and Big extra perks they get. Washington is sick and we the people have to pay for their sickness. I pay them enough with my taxes, higher prices at the grocery, telling me how to live , what to buy, and then they party with my hard earned money never doing what they were hired to do. Thank God for Fox and all those willing to tell us what is really going on in this country!
BatBoy

Wolf Blitzer: I Believed Rep. Weiner’s Line That Somebody Else Hacked His Account

Lib’s believe what libs say no matter how big the lie!

It is in your DNA folks….sorry. Obama care won’t be able to cure you either1
david r

You know, Weiner seemed like he relished all the attention at first. I guess you have to put him in the all time greats of liars, like Christopher Walken’s father in True Romance.
puck30

Why should this surprise any one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2ySV7AfgM&feature=related

He just reads whatever is givin’ to him. I bet the producers gringe when he goes off script.
felixw

Weiner fooled the liberal media, and they will hold a grudge for that very reason. He made them cover for him, and then left them exposed when he confessed. It would have been far better for him if he had admitted his indiscretion the moment it first came to light. But instead he made a lot of liberal journalists look ridiculous, and liberal reporters like to dish out the ridicule, not receive it.
TucsonTerpFan

Wolf is trying to tell all his liberal friends (especially all those in the media) that it was OK to be taken in by Weiner. I mean, if a “smart guy like me (Blitzer) can be had, it’s OK you were had too.”

CNN = Conniving News Network Duh!