Here is an email/comment sent Mr. Blitzer's way. I recently stopped receiving CNN and other news programs - too aggravating, but slightly addictive in that hoped-for glimpse of a trace of objectivity. Or maybe I was hoping for a Robert DeNiro baseball bat episode on Robert Novak, not that even that would get the point across about the consequences of weasling and lying and whoopping it up for the Bu$hies.
And maybe today was one of those days... an almost apology to Scott Ritter, who was a very isolated beacon of truth for so long. But like I said, I've cut the CNN chord.....
But is it possible that the droids at CNN will ever make the connection of Oil War and Iraq, and about how there is actually more money to be made around crude oil (parts, equipment, refineries, downstream petrochemicals, financing the business, servicing the business, and making the products that run on oil or are made from oil) rather than just selling the crude oil? Sometimes it really pays to maintain an addicted customer base, sort of like the ants and aphids, maintained by keeping a price for oil that can sustain the relationship, even if it trashes the climate control system of our planet. Well, at $ 52/bbl for oil and $ 8+/MBtu for delivered natural gas prices, that addiction might get rattled and broken up out of shear necessity. All this from an Oil President and VP, who thought they could flood the world makert with 5 million bbls/day of high grade Iraqi crude by now, and knock oil prices back down below $25/bbl. The addicts could really fill up the syringes for some big fixes that way, as there would not be much competition to oil and gas. Oops, they screwed up that one, too.
Oh well, here was the Wolf message:
Dear Mr. Blitzer,
I heard via some blogs that you really did some actual reporting today, and dared to interview Scott Ritter, the man who was correct about Iraq. What did you masters at MediaMonsterInc have to say about that - are they only in it for the ratings, or are they trying to cover their rears after having bet on the Bush bandwagon for too long, only to find that it was a bad bet?
As you have known for some time, the Iraq FUBAR is really an Oil War, with some extra points of diversion and war profiteering thrown in. CNN has been quite extraordinary in whoring it up for the Bush-Cheney (or is it Cheney-Bush?) war machine - quite the supporting chorus. Not the worst by any means, but that is not much to be proud of. Anyway, it was nice of you to take your kneepads off and do some journalism for a change. Staging an oil-grab war in the 21st century required a lot of media complicity, of all sorts and levels. And its just so 19th centruy... and mighty ugly at that. Kneepads should be reserved for baseball catchers and hockey players - they are very inappropriate on journalists. Except for Robert Novak & Co, who seem to have had theirs surgically attached. But he and his good buddies are more like a gang of paid political operatives and hacks than journalists. Who knows, maybe you could stage an interview between Novak and Valarie Plame - that should be good for ratings....
Hopefully you can now pound away on an administration AND media elite that sent this country's military forces to war based on lies (more shades of 'Nam, eh?), trashed the reputation, made this country look like the rampaging Mongol Hordes, or else just one big, greedy organized crime organization.
They say the road to recovery starts with a first step. Please consider taking a few more in the direction of the truth, and not of the spoon-fed prop that the Bush clique has been providing and CNN has been dishing out for such a long time. Otherwise, the place envisioned by Mr. Dante for those who should know better will be waiting for you with great glee, as befits one who jumps to the Dark Side. Try staying in the lighetd zones.
Dave