If there is a more biased figure in the televised media than CNN's Wolf Blitzer, I would be interested in finding out who he or she is. Blitzers interviews today with the Israeli and Syrian ambassadors tp the U.S. on the subject of the escalating war in the Middle East coulnd't have been more different. With the Israeli ambassador, Blitzer was solicitous, even posing the incredible question of "what can we do" about the deteriorating situation. We??? Would that be we Israelis or we in the United States, Wolf? Mr. Blitzer, a former flak for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) -- though you'd never know it from his CNN bio -- has consistently carried on that job in another form in his capacity as CNN host. He doesn't even try to hide his affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause, while turning instantly to prosecutorial mode when questioning any guest who has the dumb luck to be an Arab or Muslim in King Blitzer's court. It's actually quite stunning how brazen Blitzer's bias has become. At this stage, should not CNN disclose to its viewers Blitzer's background as a stenographer for the powerful lobbying group that holds the whip hand over Republican and Dmeocratic members of Congress alike, and whose role in a certain series of Iran-related spying cases raises troubling questions about whether foreign agents are operating inside the United States, with the purpose of screening American foreign policy in the Middle East for the government in Tel Aviv? (Or twisting it on Israel's behalf...)
Blitzer's behavior is not only anti-journalistic, it's irresponsible and transparantly ideological. If he wants to do an editorial program promoting the interests of a foreign government (Israel,) he should petition his bosses at the network to do just that. Otherwise, if he is purporting to do "news," he should stick to the news, and put aside his AIPAC flak jacket. (Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha didn't fare much better with MSNBC's resident twitterbug Norah "Giggles" O'Donnell, who even managed to characterize the U.S. veto of a U.N. resultuion condemning Israel's use of excessive force in Gaza as a repudiation of criticism of Israel by the Security Council...)
Shame on CNN for allowing this spectacle to go on.
(BTW, loved the insertion of Martin Indyk of all people as an "analyst." Yeah. No bias there, CNN...)
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