The Moore/Blitzer exchange shows exactly what is wrong with our country.

[Matsubara]

Look at it this way. Blitzer not a journalist. He is a sales rep for corporate America, and his performance with Moore was EXACTLY what I would expect, because I have seen it a thousand times.

The slick, unflappable manner, unflustered in the face of Moores justified outrage, even though he clearly KNOWS that everything Moore is saying is true.


But don't you and I get the exact same kind of treatment from the corporate sales reps and "customer service" reps, or timeshare salsepeople or just about any corporate representative we deal with in our own lives?


I know I've gotten it when I tried to raise my concerns about AT&T's SHITTY service and false claims in their promotions.

I've seen my cantankerous old dad go nuts when he tried to deal with a magazine subscription and bills that kept coming a YEAR after he canceled it.

(But at least Moore didn't have to push 4, then the pund sign, then 3+*, htne another pound sign and wait on hold for 35 minutes just to talk to Wolf)

The reps always respond in the exact same unctious, reptilian way.



It's sad, but our country is crawling with Wolf Blitzers.



What is it about corporate culture and the pursuit of the almight dollar that turns so many people this way?

[panader0]

1. Sad but true. Wolfie's an ass.

[rsmith6621]

2. When Wolfe Speaks................

......It's like fingernails on a chalk board....

[Warpy]

4. It is, very much so, but I feel the same way about most of the stable

of pontificators and pundits that pass for newscasters these days, especially on the cable channels. I never watch them.

Only an alert here at DU piqued my interest enough to tune in yesterday in time to see Moore lose it and rip Blister new orifices all over his body.

It warmed the cockles o me heart, that long overdue display of righteous rage at an unctuous PR man with no manners who lies right to an interviewee's face.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Write CNN and tell them that.

Apparently every letter or e-mail they get expressing an opinion is counted as if 100 people had written.

[Purveyor]

5. The 'wiki' bio on Blitzer is most enlighting indeed.... Link here for your perusal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Blitzer