So I watched a little of CNN today. Wolf Blitzer is damned near unwatchable with that . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . bizarre speech cadence and bizarre pauses. I swear it is some sort affectation and not a natural thing.

[MattP]

1. Greta is ten times worse

[malaise]

2. I've never watched her program - will never watch either

Don't watch Blitzer ever

[chillfactor]

3. same here...

I cannot stand either one of them.

[spanone]

4. wolf has always been a parody of himself...reminds me of ted baxter on the mary tyler moore show

[malaise]

5. Hehehe

[steve2470]

6. I think Blitzer is actively censoring every thought and every utterance lest he displease his......

corporate overlords. That's my take on him. It must really suck to be him, but I guess he gets a nice paycheck. Too bad history will view him as a shitty journalist.

[kacekwl]

7. Hopefully he has taken away any mirrors in his presence

so he never has to look himself in the eye. Guess he hasn't made enough money yet to have some self respect

[Boomerproud]

8. It's that automaton "Thank you very much" that gets me.

I know his parents were Holocaust survivors and I have empathy for him for that, but you would think he would be a crusader for justice and truth-telling with that background, -but he isn't.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I'm not even thinking of all that. I'm just talking about his most annoying way of speaking.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. I think he imagines himself the last of the "old school" news guys.

From back in the day when all of them were men, all of them were white, and they cut their teeth in radio where, owing to the poor quality of sound, a technique using sharp enunciation and a generous sprinkling of pauses was necessary to being understood by the audience.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Not arguing, but if true then it is, as I postulated, an affectation.