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Toobin Calls Clarence Thomas ‘Disgraceful,’ CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Hails ‘Excellent Article’

By Brent Baker | February 25, 2014, 3:23 PM EST

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer brought Jeffrey Toobin aboard Monday’s The Situation Room to expound on his New Yorker magazine blog, “Clarence Thomas’s Disgraceful Silence,” posted on Friday. After quoting ... Wolf Blitzer ...

Flashback to 1995/96: Networks Mourn Victims of Shutdown, Single Out Republicans for Blame

By Brent Baker | October 6, 2013, 12:12 AM EDT

Republicans for not compromising. On December 23 CNN’s Wolf Blitzer pined for an earlier time: “In the old ...

Gregory Contends ‘Awkward’ Moments at Debates ‘Challenge Notion’ GOP is ‘Party of Life’

By Brent Baker | September 19, 2011, 10:14 AM EDT

An awkward moment of applause. And then during the CNN debate, Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul whether ... intensive care for a period of six months. Here was the question. WOLF BLITZER, SEPTEMBER 12 DEBATE: ...

‘An Especially Amateurish Example of Media Bias’ from CNN

By Brent Baker | September 17, 2011, 6:16 PM EDT

cited on air by both Wolf Blitzer and John King. CNN relayed how the survey discovered “roughly half (49 ... ’ don't even give the actual breakdown.”) On air, Wolf Blitzer repeated the slanted formulation, ...

CBS Comes to Obama’s Defense on Vacation Time After They Cue Him Up to Prognosticate on the Economy

By Brent Baker | August 18, 2011, 10:17 AM EDT

interviews, as I tweeted Wednesday night, this was CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer’s final question to Obama as run on ...

Network Newscasts Apoplectic Over Perry, ‘White House Tells Him to Watch What He Says’

By Brent Baker | August 17, 2011, 10:09 AM EDT

doesn't love America? PERRY: You need to ask him. MITCHELL: Late today, the President responded to Wolf ...

Ex-CNN Exec ‘Outs’ Self as Liberal, Laughably Claims Counterpoint Needed to Conservative Media Dominance

By Brent Baker | August 14, 2011, 7:06 PM EDT

hours of programming that I produced here at CNN and at NBC and at ABC, with Wolf Blitzer and John King and all of the others, I don't think any of us ever knew our politics. Wolf and I did everything in the '08 election. I have no idea how Wolf votes. I don't think he had any idea of my ...

Gore and Olbermann Tap CNN, NBC and ABC Veteran Bohrman to Run Current TV

By Brent Baker | August 8, 2011, 2:06 PM EDT

join us in this exciting venture.” Just on Friday Wolf Blitzer ended CNN’s The Situation Room by saying ...

ABC on Terror Suspect, Everything But a Muslim: ‘Marine Lance Corporal,” a ‘Marine Reservist,’ an ‘Ethiopian’ and a ‘Lone Wolf'

By Brent Baker | June 19, 2011, 6:15 AM EDT

multiple times as well as a “Marine reservist,” “a 22-year old Ethiopian American” and a “lone wolf.” ABC, ... a terrorist plot. Now, they are racing to find out if the suspect was mentally unstable or a lone wolf ...

Network Journalists Advance Leftist Wish to Blame Palin (and Tea Party) for Shooting

By Brent Baker | January 10, 2011, 12:38 PM EST

our political rhetoric. WOLF BLITZER: It certainly is, but the question is, is there any evidence that ...

DC Journalists Get Together Naked to Sweat After Watching Wolf Blitzer

By Brent Baker | March 20, 2010, 4:45 PM EDT

a weekly sauna session in the basement of Finland’s embassy – with Wolf Blitzer on the TV beforehand as ... beaming Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" onto the wall. A bottle of Finlandia vodka ...

CNN's Larry King Focuses on Defeat and Threat of 'Far Right'

By Brent Baker | November 4, 2009, 4:00 AM EST

During a live midnight EST hour Larry King Live Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, CNN's Larry King repeatedly employed the “far right” pejorative to describe those who backed the unsuccessful New York congressional bid of the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman. After Wolf Blitzer announced at ...

Parallels to Obamamania in ABC's 'V' Sci-Fi Mini-Series, Plus Reporter Helps the Aliens

By Brent Baker | November 3, 2009, 4:50 PM EST

Baccarin), to enlist an ambitious TV reporter (Scott Wolf) as a propaganda tool.” Garvin, presumably citing ...

ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges

By Brent Baker | September 16, 2009, 2:34 AM EDT

PRESIDENT, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: It's a classic case of calling wolf.<br /><br ...

CNN's Situation Room Charges: 'Racial Tinge to Tea Movement'

By Brent Baker | September 14, 2009, 10:01 PM EDT

Room when the usually more sensible Wolf Blitzer, with “RACIAL TINGE TO TEA MOVEMENT” as the on-screen ... the activity here. From about 5:30 PM EDT during the Monday, September 14 Situation Room: WOLF ... Well, Wolf, we have to emphasize by far most tea party protesters are not casting their arguments in ...