CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’ (Video)

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by Matt Wilstein | 7:16 pm, May 21st, 2013

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer demonstrated why you should never assume someone believes in God while interviewing a survivor of the Oklahoma tornado Tuesday afternoon. Blitzer spoke to a young woman named Rebecca, who escaped with her 19-month-old son just moments before the tornado destroyed their home.

While their narrow escape from harm may have seemed miraculous, Rebecca evidently didn’t see it that way. At the end of the interview, Blitzer told her, “You’re blessed. Brian, your husband is blessed. Anders is blessed… I guess you got to thank the lord, right?” When the woman shrugged off the question, he repeated it, asking, “Do you thank the lord for that split-second decision?”

“I–I’m actually an atheist,” she responded. After the awkward laughter that followed, she added, “We are here and you know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the lord.”

“Of course not,” Blitzer replied.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-wolf-blitzer-asks-atheist-tornado-survivor-if-she-thanked-the-lord/

Anders has more common sense in his diaper than Wolf has in his skull.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Wolf is the perfect MSM asshat

Central casting couldn't come up with anything better.

[Phillip McCleod]

2. thx rug. heart-warming despite the devastation around them. \n

[BlueStreak]

3. What !!!! A person can have an appreciation for life without babbling on about god and satan?

Next you are probably going to try to tell me it is even possible for a person to be ethical, moral, and kind-hearted without turning to imaginary friends for inspiration and validation every day.

[mucifer]

4. I like her. She doesn't judge him for his assumptions.

She accepts his beliefs. She caught him off guard.

[Cha]

10. It was an awesome response. She was going to let it go and

he kept after her.

She's the one with grace and wolf? Well, I won't go into that.

[msongs]

5. 'the lord" sent the tornado, why would anyone in their right minds thank it? nt

[hrmjustin]

6. Yes he made assumptions that he should not have. She handled that with grace.

[rug]

7. Extreme good grace.

After she answered he should have just tiptoed away in embarrassment.

[hrmjustin]

8. Wolf is a legend in his own mind!

[No Vested Interest]

9. Guess Wolf had fallen into assuming all residents of Moore adopt the local culture.

He'd likely heard so much "thankfulness" and "praising", he thought all Okies think alike.
She had already told him she didn't own a cell phone.
He should have taken that hint that this woman thought differently from the accepted norm.

I don't imagine he would ask that question of someone in New York or California.

[BootinUp]

11. Hey Wolf, ask her if she flagellated her sinful flesh next.