Was "Leslie" Blitzer (CNN) a former lobbyist for AIPAC?

[NoodleyAppendage]

Duke, while repugnant, called Leslie Blitzer a former lobbyist for AIPAC today on CNN.

Is this true?

J

[cali]

1. If you mean Wolf Blitzer, the answer is yes

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

[wuushew]

2. yes

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

[Poll_Blind]

3. Yes, he was the editor of AIPAC's "Near East Report". n/t

PB

[BuyingThyme]

4. Yes, but his real name IS NOT Leslie Blitzer.

It's Leslie Aipac.

[Wesin04]

11. Where did Leslie come from?

Can someone explain this? Apparently, well known by most, I have no idea where it comes from.:shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

13. It's an Al Franken joke

See his book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot". Franken provides the transcript of his speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner way back in the early Clinton years. His joke was that Wolf was really named the less masculine-sounding Leslie, etc. etc. Fact is, Wolf IS his real name (short for Wolfgang) and is a common German moniker. In any event, lots of DUers believe out of their wishful thinking/ignorance that it's true.

Blitzer is an asshole, but calling him Leslie doesn't have any effect. He laughed at Franken's joking.

[NoodleyAppendage]

14. That's why I put Leslie in quotations...a knowing jab. n/t

J

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[KoKo]

6. He was "Liberty Media's" Jerusalem Post cub reporter starting out....

check out which Fundie Televangelical gave him his job.

[riverwalker]

7. also for The Jerusalem Post

He has written under the aliases Ze'ev Blitzer and Ze'ev Barak, "Ze'ev" meaning "wolf" and "Barak" meaning "lightning" in Hebrew, and the German word for which is "Blitz".



Barack meaning "lightning" in Hebrew.
Obama meaning "sent by God" in Swahili.
I kind of like it. ;)

[stillcool]

8. Wolf Blitzer’s Secret

It’s scary to hear someone carry-on like Pat. But it’s sort of strange to realize that Pat and Wolf Blitzer go way back together. Yep! Wolf used to work for Pat Robertson's CBN way back when Pat was setting up his news bureau and Wolf was the 700 Club’s reporter from the Middle East. He was a lot younger in those days, but in those beginning days Pat exposed Wolf Blitzer to a viewing audience that topped the Nielsen ratings at 28.7 million monthly viewers! That’s a great way to launch one’s career. But Wolf Blitzer likes to keep that part of his career kind of quiet. He doesn’t list the 700 Club’s news bureau in his biography. He doesn’t tell CNN’s audience that Pat was like an angel to him when he was just an independent reporter starting out. But those of us who watched Pat’s show could never forget Wolf Blitzer’s reports. He was presented to us as such an expert—we were just so proud of him! And look how high he’s gone. You’d think he’d give Pat a little credit. No doubt he says “Thanks” by inviting him on CNN!

After all, Pat started a J-School (Journalism School) and Bob Slosser, who had worked for the New York Times became the President of CBN University and Bob Slosser shared Pat’s vision of a new America. Slosser was at the graduation of the first graduate from the Institute of Journalism, it was a young lady named Eliza Wright. And the Governor of Missouri, a fellow named John Ashcroft gave the graduation speech on May 20, 1985! (My how these folks go way back together—and it shows what loyalty can do!) Bob Slosser told the 700 Club audience that day:

“We’re going to change the way the country thinks, we’ve bought into this secularism thing and that’s taken us right down the wrong path. I believe that this institution and those like this…will change the way this country thinks!”

Katherine Yurica is a writer and a news intelligence analyst. She is also the publisher of the Yurica Report.
http://www.yuricareport.com/Media/OnPatRobertsonWolfeBlitzerAndDavidCorn.html

[oberliner]

9. This is actually a lie that is spread on anti-semitic web sites (such as David Duke's)

And somehow got picked up by that bastion of truth, Wikipedia.

Wolf Blitzer was never a lobbyist for AIPAC.

[NNN0LHI]

10. Appreciate the clarification n/t

[riverwalker]

12. he wrote the AIPAC newsletter

"The Near East Report"
It was before he worked for The Jerusalem Post, so may have used his alias.