do you feel that Wolfs softballs to Gannon were to protect Novak?

[Logiola]

Just a thought.. they (CNN) really tried to just push the whole story under the rug with the Wolf Blitzer interview. Do you think it was just a way to somehow throw the attention away to protect Novak from something?

[ewagner]

1. Not sure

It was sooooooo obvious that they were trying to sweep the story off the front page but I'm not yet certain of the motivations.....

[gumby]

2. I don't think Wolf needs a reason to be a media whore.

That's just his normal persona.

He and Kurtz have really embarrassed themselves with their 'Gannon' shilling, but it's nothing new.

[applegrove]

3. I think having Novak on the CNN team - all week long - protects them

from being targeted by the right. And they know it. Though of Capital Gang ... when Novak mentioned the real reason why Rove got the new job (he complained to Bush).. one of the other pundits asked him if Rove was 'taking his calls again' (or something to that effect). LMAO

[leftofthedial]

4. that's all wolfie can do

he's a natural whore

softballs and not a clue

he's just as big a phony as Puckert/Gannon

[Pirate Smile]

5. I'm glad Frank Rich went after him in his article because it was truly

pathetic.

""Jeff Gannon" had decided to give an exclusive TV interview to a sober practitioner of by-the-book real news, Wolf Blitzer. Given this journalistic opportunity, the anchor asked questions almost as soft as those "Jeff" himself had asked in the White House. Mr. Blitzer didn't question Mr. Guckert's outrageous assertion that he adopted a fake name because "Jeff Gannon is easier to pronounce and easier to remember." (Is "Jeff" easier to pronounce than his real first name, Jim?). Mr. Blitzer never questioned Gannon/Guckert's assertion that Talon News "is a separate, independent news division" of GOPUSA. Only in a brief follow-up interview a day later did he ask Gannon/Guckert to explain why he was questioned by the F.B.I. in the case that may send legitimate reporters to jail: Mr. Guckert has at times implied that he either saw or possessed a classified memo identifying Valerie Plame as a C.I.A. operative. Might that memo have come from the same officials who looked after "Jeff Gannon's" press credentials? Did Mr. Guckert have any connection with CNN's own Robert Novak, whose publication of Ms. Plame's name started this investigation in the first place? The anchor didn't go there."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3128002&mesg_id=3128002

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/arts/20rich.html?

[Shopaholic]

6. Wolf doesn't need a reason to be a 'ho for BushCo

it just comes naturally to him.

[Pirate Smile]

7. Yes, CNN really is trying to emulate Faux. What idiots! No wonder their

ratings are falling.

[Jacobin]

8. CNN, FAUX, et al spend their time protecting everyone in the junta

The entire RW cabal and neo-cons are all off limits. Any fuckups are covered up or minimized or ignored.

Anyone (like Dean) who challenges the neo-con/RW junta is slathered in gratuitous slime endlessly until they go away.

[JDeaver9]

9. Nope. Wolf's just an idiot!