Wolf and Kagan backtrack on air re. WH contact with CNN ---

[DeepModem Mom]

what's going on? Is some WH operative monitoring CNN 24/7, ready to call, and coach or zap a CNN producer at any time? Today Daryn Kagan apologizes on-air to Letterman for saying CNN got a call from the WH, which she now denies. And here's the transcript re. Wolf Blitzer's strange saga, involving WH sources, Richard Clarke, and Paul Krugman:

Eschaton's CNN transcript of Wolf's response to Krugman's column:

BLITZER (3/30/04): Last Wednesday, while I was debriefing our senior White House correspondent, John King, I asked him if White House officials were suggesting there were some weird aspects to Richard Clarke's life. Clarke, of course, is the former counter-terrorism adviser who has sharply criticized the president's handling of the war on terror. I was not referring to anything charged by so-called unnamed White House officials as alleged today by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. I was simply seeking to flesh out what Bush National Security Council spokesman Jim Wilkinson had said on this program two days earlier.

WILKINSON (videotape): Let me also point something. If you look in this book, you find interesting things such as reported in the Washington Post this morning. He's talking about how he sits back and visualizes chanting by bin Laden and how bin Laden has some sort of mind control over U.S. officials. This is sort of X-Files stuff. And what I'd say is, this is a man who was in charge of terrorism, Wolf, who was supposed to be focused on that. And he was focused on meetings.

BLITZER: Other than that, John Kerry (sic) reported White House officials were not talking about Clarke's personal life in any way. Lou Dobbs Tonight starts right now.


(Note, this from transcript above: "I was not referring to anything charged by so-called UNNAMED WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS as alleged today by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.")


Now the transcript of Wolf's original statement that Krugman referred to in his column:

BLITZER (question to King, Wednesday, 3/24/04): What ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS have been saying since the weekend, basically that Richard Clarke from their vantage point was a disgruntled former government official, angry because he didn't get a certain promotion. He's got a hot new book out now that he wants to promote. He wants to make a few bucks, and that his own personal life, they're also suggesting that there are some weird aspects in his life as well, that they don't know what made this guy come forward and make these accusations against the president. Is that the sense that you're getting, speaking to a wide range of officials?


(Must have been Wolf's nervousness trying to pull off that lame excuse that caused him to misspeak and refer to WH correspondent John King, as John Kerry --)

[papau]

1. LOL :-)

:-)

[maggrwaggr]

2. when do we get to vote Wolf Blitzer out of his office?

we need regime change in the media. This guy is just a schill for the team in power. It's wrong and it should be illegal.

[0007]

6. Wolfie isn't smart enough to be a shill

A shill must know when to make a lay down and when to make a pick up.

Wolfie is a panty wearing cheer leader that can't even do a backward flip

[Sticky]

3. Busted.

CNN (Credibility Not Needed)

Blitzer's "hard news" is a total joke.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. "Hard news," fresh from Rove's office?

[Minstrel Boy]

5. are their collars of obedience showing? n/t

[suegeo]

7. I read that the NSA has CNN on all the time

For what it's worth...

In the book Body of Secrets, the author describes that the spies in the NSA (which is NOT the same group as the insane clown posse run by Dr. Bozo Rice) have CNN broadcasting all the time over t.v.s in the NSA building.

A label added to the broadcast indicates whether or not the information being blabbed about by the blabbing heads is classified, and at what level...