Question: Where did "Leslie" come from (Blitzer)? I heard him interviewe

[karlrschneider]

on NPR a few weeks ago and he swore Wolf is his legal given name...forget who asked him. Said it's an old family name. I see lots of refs to the Leslie name but never saw any real evidence. (I'm not saying I like him, just wondering about the name)

[karlrschneider]

1. Anybody know?

:eyes:

[mitchtv]

2. I read here on DU

That Al Franken made that up.

[karlrschneider]

3. Ah...that could very well be the case...thanks.

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[DemPopulist]

4. Yes

It was a joke in an Al Franken speech: http://the-hamster.com/franken1.html">Link

"At a panel entitled You're Only as Sick as Your Secrets, Wolf Blitzer admitted that his real name is Leslie Blitzer."

[karlrschneider]

5. Thanks. I think a lot of DUers really believe the story...

:eyes:

[Zomby Woof]

6. Al Franken made it up

At a DC White House Correspondents Dinner some years ago. He wrote about it in "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot".

Seems too many DUers believe that Leslie is his real name, but it's not.

[madokie]

7. leslie it will be, leslie blitzer kinda' rolls off tongue