“Wolf Blitzer Tells Anderson Cooper Why ‘He Didn’t Back Down’ To Newt Gingrich”

Isn’t it obvious? He wanted to provide Tina from Tampa an opportunity to rail against the “lib media” in classic paranoid fashion.

Classic.

Host interviewing host, my favorite kind of story . Cause , aren’t they really what’s important .

Wolf, I can’t stand you, but you were an excellent journalist in this instance.

While he’s no Pat Sajak, Blitz did a credible job. Especially compared to Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopolous and the Money Honey.

You talking about paranoia is classic.

Wolf did a solid job last night. It was the only debate that I’ve really watched in its entirety.

Wolf Blitzer Tells Anderson Cooper Why ‘He Didn’t Back Down’ To Newt Gingrich

That’s a true act of courage there Wolf .

Sorry, Bidet, but Wolf corrected a Willard lie. Hardly paranoiac.

Willard didn’t lie. Willard was just unaware, which is why he’s an idiot. :)

The only time when CNN gets viewers is during debates.

Wolf did an excellent job yesterday though a few mistakes here and there, but much better than the cowardly John King in the SC debate, who could have easily followed up Newt’s retort by asking about the hypocrisy of Newt’s family values which surprisingly  the evangelical supported despite the obvious lack of morals/values Newt possesses. 

Well to be fair, on the panel after the debate, one of the republican strategists mentioned that often times candidates don’t know every single ad they put out bc they are like 85 made according to him, and they don’t hear every one, still if mitt is going to claim he’s in charge, he should listen to the ad before approving it. strike against mitt on that even though the ad was true to what Newt said or implied esp w/ Newt making a mea culpa in spanish. 

Agreed.

I gave this a “Like” because of the second sentence – but I disagree on the first. Blitz got a “solid” for succeeding in enforcing the CNN dead-center msm view of what constitutes a “debate”.  

In the few times during these 19 shows when something useful has happened, EVERY SINGLE TIME it has happened DESPITE the efforts of the interviewers to enforce that sort of dead-center msm view, and BECAUSE OF successful attempts by one or more of the contestants to impose his (or her) character or message or both.  

This might seem counter-intuitive, but I think what Newt said at one point – at the very point that’s the subject of this thread, in fact – goes right to what’s been wrong with the 95% plus of these debates (They feel to me like watching Italian league soccer – lots of exaggerated passion, mostly faux & some real such that it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference – but in the end not much if any scoring of goals.).  

The assumption – mine too – is that Newt tried to pick a fight with Blitz & Blitz was somehow skillful & clever in ducking it. But the message ITSELF, despite Newt’s motivates to replay his most frequent meme of media bashing in order to excite the crowd (to make the magic happen, which Newt knows really can’t be too forced or it fails completely & spectacularly) is a good one. This shouldn’t be about the host talking heads forcing the contestants into a cookie cutter exercise – it should be about FACILITATING meaningful discussion. Any notably, the only time meaningful discussion happened last night was when Santorum OVER-RODE Blitz’ efforts to control the process, to keep up his attack on Romney on the key feature to the individual mandate in Obomneycare. Other highlights from the 19 debates have all shared this feature: that it’s not the questioners that should be or are the stars, it’s the contestants. Perry’s several blow-ups were HIS blow-ups – he couldn’t repeat memorized lines – possibly because he either didn’t understand them, or didn’t believe them, or he’s not adaptable to the msm cookie cutter, or he’s not that smart, maybe some of each – they weren’t manufactured by the questioners.  
Now, I suspect what Newt was going for here was a two-fer: not just to score his usual attack on media theme & energize the crowd, but also to take Blitz out of the process so that chaos would happen, because already Newt had noted the evening was taking  on the worst aspects of cookie cutter hosting (CNN is the worst of the cookie cutter network hosts, and Blitz is possibly the worst of the cookie cutter news personalities – maybe only Howard Kurtz can even approach how truly awful Blitz is.), & Newt knew this was going to turn out badly for HIM. But also for all of us.  

I think the GOP establishment attack on Newt yesterday & assigning Blitz to be Blitz to this debate were all from the same motivation: to restore the GOP brand by squelching Newt’s insurgency. Someone made the point yesterday that it reminded them of how Howard Dean’s insurgency was squelched in 2004, & the more I think on that the more it’s compelling. Newt has been imposing a weird form of creative destruction on the truly awful Borg Romney & that had to be stopped. But we’re all going to suffer for this – if the only person standing after Florida other than the Borg is Ron Paul, the Borg isn’t going to get challenged or ‘vetted’ so Obama will have little to no problem with him, and we won’t even end up with a meaningful discussion on health care reform let alone inequality. Newt, Santorum & Paul have all been nibbling around edges of the inequality debate (even if you add them all up, their total ability to represent the 99% is at about 3% – still better than Romney but still really pathetic, yet still the best thing available to challenge Romney on this front before Obama eviscerates him.), but RoPaul can’t do that on his own: all Romney will have to do from now on is listen to RoPaul rant on like a crazy old coot & gently shake his head & act Reaganesque with the dye-job & the tolerant knowing smile. These guys were the last best chance to turn Romney away from continuing to be the Borg & into something human, & Blitz played a part in ending that. 

No – he was doing an excellent job of PRETENDING to be an excellent journalist. The better route would be to have actually taken on Newt on his challenge: Okay, then – I agree that if the will of the participants be that I back off, that’s the best course – what say you all? THAT would have been excellent. What Blitz did was cookie cutter cop, pepper spraying Newt in the face. It   served no purpose other than to maintain the illusion of network dignity & it’s aura of responsibility. 

Hosts interviewing hosts is a classic FNC interview………

Kudos to Wolfe.  I was worried going into that debate that Newt would once again set the tone for the night.  Wolfe didn’t let him.  It changed the whole night – for the good. 

Newt tried to bully the media once again and it failed… just like debate performance!!

Commands from the Ruling Class Republican Establishment (with help from their pals: the d-cRAT socialists and their stooges/puppets in the socialist media):

There is nothing wrong with your mind. Do not attempt to think for yourself. We are controlling the information provided for the Republican primaries. If we wish to destroy a conservative, we will bring up the volume of attacks. If we wish to support a RINO, we will tune it to a pleasant sound. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image of a conservative, make it flutter. We can change the focus of a conservative to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity for an establishment  RINO. For the remainder of the primary season, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your mind. You are about to participate in a great adventure – the approval of the RINO that we establishment clowns have selected to win the nomination. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to… ANOTHER RULING-CLASS ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE LOSER.

(FYI: each and every Ruling Class Establishment Repub candidate, like RINO romney(care), has LOST the general election:   mccain, dole, george h.w. bush, ford….)

Are family values on of Newt’s primary campaign platforms?

Wolf made up his mind that he wasn’t going to get punk’d by Newt like Juan Williams & John King. You heard the crowd starting to boo Wolf for continuing with the question but Wolf didn’t care. Good move on Wolf’s part, at the end, Newt knew Wolf was calling the shots tonight. Rest of the night went bad for Newt, especially when they started asking him about lunar colonies ROTFLMAO!

These employees of the lowest rated cable news channel sure do like to always make the story all about them.

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In fairness, I think that Wolf got a Pulitzer but do not quote me.  He IS a hard hitting, take no prisoners sort of guy and often he does step over the line.  But I do notice Newt can make out far worse comments but he seems to wilt under a similar question to him.  Of course, with Newt’s checkered past, treatment of his wife taking chemo, and his Speaker of the House well documented history, etc., etc., he has to use these bait and switch comments to cover up for his past.  But alas, it is not impressive to me and I shall never vote for him, even if he is our candidate.

Doesn’t Newt like to make it about the moderators?

In fairness, Romney pushed Gingrich to answer.

So, let me get this right – it is a proud moment for a journo to “not back down” from a conservative, but it is a bad thing for a Governor  to “not back down” from Obama?  (I know its a bad comparison, I just think its funny this board has a story on a journo being strong and a Governor being strong, but they only support the liberal circumstance).

Because I’m Wolf Efin’ Blitzer! Jeopardy Champion! Ladies Man! and I don’t let Banobos tell me how to dress!

You don’t get it, Blitzer used Newt just like how Obama used Brewer. Blitz made the point he isn’t getting pushed around by a Republican & Obama wanted to make the point that he’s ready for a fight. Both set the tone by making an example out of the Repub scrubs.

If Romney didn’t take that opportunity to answer after Blitzer pushed Newt against the wall, then Romney would’ve looked like a cowardly punk.

Good call: what it looks like, in the end, is that CNN played the old hesaidshesaid game they’re known for – first they tee one up for one (King for Newt), then they tee it up for the other (Blitz for Mitt). Look Ma! No invisible hands!

From now on, all the debates should be moderated by Wolf IMO. At least until Newt drops out.

Hey Wolf, don’t you still owe Jeopardy! money?

Uh, so many ways to respond to your post Tina.  Letsee….Wolf Blitzer is a news personality.  Obama is the President.  Following me so far?  Angry hag Gov Brewer is a disrespectful tw*t that should run off into the sunset with her equally dimwitted and disrespectful twin-inspirit, Snowcrab snookie, also known as Half term Palin.

 Thanks for sharing your opening speech at your next Teabag Rally.

 LOL.  probably not.

Some, but really, he likes to make it all about himself and his mistress of six years, Calista. 

 Newt tries to bully period.  I can’t believe he hasn’t bullied his passel of ex and current wives and mistresses.

I free that he likes to make it about himself, but I dont think he feels comfortable talking about Calista. She is the reason he had to resign in disgrace whether he & his fanboys want to admit it or not, and no one is going to respect you as the 1st lady when you’re really the 3rd whore.

You’re absolutely right. Newt dropped that shtick a while ago… and for good reason. He finally got it that people see through him and his unprecedented and unparalleled hypocrisy. He is smart not to make family values his platform this time around. Leave that to  ’man on dog’ Satorum,

True, but it was adorable to see Blitzer talk about how he stared Newt down. Wolf is harmless and has childlike innocence. That’s what makes him so adorable!

President Bill Clinton
“Newt Gingrich has been a worthy adversary, leading the Republican party to a majority in the House, and joining me in a great national debate over how best to prepare America for the 21st Century. “Despite our profound differences, I appreciate those times we were able to work together in the national interest, especially Speaker Gingrich’s strong support for America’s continuing leadership for freedom, peace and prosperity in the world.”

House GOP Conference Chairman John Boehner
“As he has done so many times in the last 20 years, Newt Gingrich has shown incredible courage. He has always put his party’s interest and his nation’s interest ahead of his own. I know he will continue to serve his friends and his colleagues as an elder statesmen in our party.”

Rep. Bill Archer (R-Texas)
“I’m saddened that my longtime close friend and colleague, Speaker Newt Gingrich, has decided to resign from Congress. Newt Gingrich is a visionary who was responsible for ending 40 years of high taxes, high spending, and a welfare state that had grown out of control. His leadership brought us welfare reform, the first budget surplus in 25 years, and a return to the opportunity society that America values. All Americans owe Newt Gingrich a debt of gratitude for his service to our country.