Wolf: "We've Just Been Howard Sterned" (with video)

[Newsjock]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/wolf_weve_just_been_howard_sterned_42609.asp

"Wolf Blitzer gets Blitzed on the Ramsey Situation," an e-mailer says: In the first hour of Wednesday's Situation Room, CNN apparently thought it had a phoner with Wendy Hutchens, a woman "who claims that five years ago she had detailed chats about the death of JonBenet Ramsey" with John Mark Karr. Here's what happened:

After the prank caller delivered the "he was instructed to kill JonBenet by Howard Stern" line, Blitzer bailed out by saying: "That sounds like we've just been Howard Sterned as they say, so we'll have to leave that alone. Wendy, not Wendy Hutchens, but clearly a crank phone call. Thanks very much in any case."

Thanks very much?! Anyway, Lloyd Grove says the caller was a "notorious prank caller" named Thomas Cipriano. He says: "I've been doing this for 20 years! You'd think they'd be on to me by now..."

[tanyev]

1. Can you imagine something like that happening to Walter Cronkite?

Modern newstainment is so desperate for the sensational scoop that they throw all caution and sense out the window.

[LiberalinNC]

2. "A crack phone call"???

Just goes to show you that all news programs should be questioned!!!

[Pawel K]

3. LOL

:rofl:

[RedStateShame]

4. Hey now!!

[Deb]

5. Has it been 20 yrs!?!

Those phone calls to CNN have been the one thing to come out of Stern's program that I can appreciate. Thanks for the morning snicker.

[soothsayer]

6. lol! Cap'n Janks strikes again?