Romney Plays His Trump Card

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jun 1, 2012 Donald Trump has said he would be "open" to accepting a Cabinet post if Mitt Romney becomes president. Don't laugh. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Paging Dr. Paul: The Sickness Is in the System

Helen Redmond / Truthdig Oct 20, 2011 Taking personal responsibility for one’s own health is an artful dodge that suggests the government has no responsibility to provide health care to its population. It is an ideological mantra that health insurance company PR spinmeisters relentlessly front-load to the public via the stenographic mainstream media.Paul’s prescription for the millions of uninsured is to leave health care to the magic and mayhem of the market -- and if you go bankrupt, it’s your own fault. And bankrupt Americans go. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Wolf Blitzer’s Panic Room

Staff / Truthdig Aug 12, 2010 "The Situation Room" is a familiar venue for the kind of hysteria and nonsense that has become the hallmark of television news, so it comes as no surprise that host Wolf Blitzer and a cohort of CNN's loudest Chicken Littles have declared Social Security at "the final tipping point" and "broke" despite $25 trillion in reserves and a bright future. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Girl Raised From Birth by Wolf Blitzer

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2010 The Onion has a little fun at the expense of CNN's situational anchor and his "colorless monotone." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Biden Watersports Don’t Inspire Confidence in the Media

Staff / Truthdig Jun 8, 2010 What to make of elite journalists trading their quills and cameras for water guns and a few laughs with the White House subjects they're supposed to be covering? Glenn Greenwald writes that "all of this just helpfully reveals what our nation's leading 'journalists' really are: desperate worshipers " (continued). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 21, 2009 Who are these people? I am not referring to the pathetic parents of “Balloon Boy,” whose fake drama I have been unable to escape while on the treadmill this week, thanks to my gym’s insistence on tuning its flat-screen TVs to Wolf Blitzer’s nonstop self-parody. Now if we could get one of the banking lobbyists to float a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer might cover the real hoax. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Congressman: Republicans Are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’

Staff / Truthdig Oct 1, 2009 Rep. Alan Grayson, the congressman who said the Republican health care plan is for Americans to die quicker, tells Wolf Blitzer and friends what's up: "Democrats have to have guts. And now we have to have the guts to take the majority that the American people have given us and do something with it."Rep. Alan Grayson drills down to rock bed: Democrats must have the guts to take their majority "and do something with it." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blitzed

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Rice: ‘Pakistan Has a Responsibility to Act’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 9, 2008 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a visit to CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday to talk with Wolf Blitzer about the tense situation between Pakistan and India. "We are awaiting action," Rice told Blitzer, hours before Monday's news that action on Pakistan's part apparently had started. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sarah Palin Talks About 2012

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2008 We'll let the governor speak for herself: "If there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door." Updated Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Zakaria Calls Palin ‘Utterly Unqualified’ for VP Post

Staff / Truthdig Sep 30, 2008 Calling Sarah Palin's recent interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric "the last straw," Newsweek editor and columnist Fareed Zakaria tells Wolf Blitzer on Monday's episode of "The Situation Room" that it's not a matter of Palin not giving the right answer when faced with a complex question about the economy or foreign policy, "it's that she clearly does not understand the question." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jesse Jackson Backpedals on Obama Comment

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2008 The Rev. Jesse Jackson quickly switched to damage-control mode Wednesday after Fox News picked up a "crude" and "private" comment that Jackson made about Barack Obama when he thought wasn't being recorded. Multiple updates. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )