Reply #7: He likes being on CNN...

[salin]

let's him pretend that he is not slanted to the right.

Of course if there was any question about his strong tilt... it was erased in his coverage on the day of Senator Wellstone's death. He was on the scene with Sen. Kennedy who was supposed to have been on the flight... he was sticking the mike in Kennedy's face and making sure the cameras kept rolling as Sen. Kennedy choked up - he had just lost one of his best friends and allies in the senate... he had been scheduled to be with Wellstone and had to have had some pretty complicated emotions tied up with that... but Blitzer's smarmy comments and coverage seems not to have any compassion for the senator but instead staged to make the senator look bad. WTF was that about - except seeing an "opportunity" (not as a newsy but as a political operative) and seizing it to attempt to score political points for the right by further marginalizing the left. It was one of the ugliest and least respectful displays I had seen in a long time. This was HOURS after the plane went down.

Yet there was no irony displayed by Wolf who later played part of the media pillaging of the Wellstone memorial because it was not "respectful" and was political in nature.

Wolf likes the "cover" of respectability that CNN gives him. And clearly CNN likes being able to "compete" with Faux by having a rightwing operative as a key part of their political coverage team.