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Also view: http://videosift.com/video/Wolf-Blitzer-s-Epic-Fail-on-Jeopardy

Blitzer's appearance was discussed by the morning guys on the local radio station here. They made an interesting point: comedy is largely about current and historic events and benefits from lots of obscure knowledge. Even comedians who aren't especially topical work in a lot of references in their punchlines. Cheech may play an idiot in his movies, but he's still a comedian.

To be an anchor, you just need to be able to read.

>> ^gwiz665:
That's true. I was going from Hanlon's Razor, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.", but these people know what they're doing - they are evil!
>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^gwiz665:
They hired her because of her celebrity and to cater to all the stoopids. It's blindingly obvious, but I doubt she has the ability to learn anything from this. Still... Wolf Blitzer isn't exactly smart and when you think about it, the talking heads at Fox in general aren't specced out to max intellect either. She might just fit in perfectly.

Oh, come on. These people at Fox News are smarter than they want their viewers to believe.
See Gretchen Carlson:
http://www.videosift.com/video/TDS-Jon-Stewart-puts-
Fox-News-Gretchen-Carlson-in-her-place
And that makes it worse - that they're hiding their intelligence in order to be attractive to the lowest common denominator.


Check and check.

That's true. I was going from Hanlon's Razor, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.", but these people know what they're doing - they are evil!
>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^gwiz665:
They hired her because of her celebrity and to cater to all the stoopids. It's blindingly obvious, but I doubt she has the ability to learn anything from this. Still... Wolf Blitzer isn't exactly smart and when you think about it, the talking heads at Fox in general aren't specced out to max intellect either. She might just fit in perfectly.

Oh, come on. These people at Fox News are smarter than they want their viewers to believe.
See Gretchen Carlson:
http://www.videosift.com/video/TDS-Jon-Stewart-puts-
Fox-News-Gretchen-Carlson-in-her-place
And that makes it worse - that they're hiding their intelligence in order to be attractive to the lowest common denominator.

>> ^gwiz665:
They hired her because of her celebrity and to cater to all the stoopids. It's blindingly obvious, but I doubt she has the ability to learn anything from this. Still... Wolf Blitzer isn't exactly smart and when you think about it, the talking heads at Fox in general aren't specced out to max intellect either. She might just fit in perfectly.


Oh, come on. These people at Fox News are smarter than they want their viewers to believe.

See Gretchen Carlson:
http://www.videosift.com/video/TDS-Jon-Stewart-puts-Fox-News-Gretchen-Carlson-in-her-place

And that makes it worse - that they're hiding their intelligence in order to be attractive to the lowest common denominator.

They hired her because of her celebrity and to cater to all the stoopids. It's blindingly obvious, but I doubt she has the ability to learn anything from this. Still... Wolf Blitzer isn't exactly smart and when you think about it, the talking heads at Fox in general aren't specced out to max intellect either. She might just fit in perfectly.

Die in a fire, Wolf Blitzer.

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Fox News may not the bastion of news integrity, but if I were Maddow I wouldn't exactly be calling them out. I've seen my share of terrible work, bias, and sleeping on the job from all the cable news networks. One of my 'favorites' is the Campbell Brown interview of former Governor Jesse Ventura (YouTube vids were pulled ). In comparison to the anchors mentioned by HaricotVert these new guys are, IHMO, a joke.

I've seen enough information (and not from FOX) that imply a great deal of shenanigans going on behind the scenes of Obama's administration. So where is the hard hitting investigative journalism? I tuned in one day (no doubt in a fit of insanity) to find CNN discussing Michelle Obama's White House garden and the plant breakdown. A garden... I think my new favorite clip is Arianna Huffington & Ben Stein asking Wolf Blitzer: WTF is up with you guys covering this Ballon Boy all day? You know there's actually serious shit happening right now (note: i paraphrased a bit there)

>> ^raverman:
Hmmm, the proletariat railing against the richest 1% from controlling everything was the cause of most of the 18th/19th century revolutions.
In ALL instances the leaders of the revolution became the new ruthless richest 1%.

That's not really true. You can make the claim that power corrupts but not that it's inevitable human nature to have a country run like a pyramid scheme the way the US is. Look at this map. Most of the 1st world has more spread in it's wealth. We're in line with poorer nations like India and Russia.... actually India's a little better.


Technically - the revolution, action and voice of the masses was a form of democracy. It's the same call to action outlined here.
Having said that: There is little difference between lords and nobles and rich corporations. Unless you lived in the forest, everyone lives and pays taxes to the lord that owns the land.

It's a question of whether it's a couple lords of the land or mostly a bunch of ex-serfs who made it out with hard work that own the land. You could say everything's a pyramid scheme but it's not such a big deal if the pyramid's not very tall. In America the pyramid is quite tall.

Likewise, now, you can hardly avoid paying money to the corporations since in one form or another they own everything you need to survive.

Big corporations own as much as we let them own via lack of regulation, not because they have some moral right to it, not because of hard work that set them above the rest of us. For example if you let a corporation have a monopoly it'll be very very wealthy really fast - that's one of the things we still sometimes regulate. Things haven't always been the way they are in the US.


Sure you elect a president, congress, senate - but they are powerless to stop the might of the drug, food, insurance, banking, media conglomerates, and the rest of the unelected giants that actually control the world we live in. We can't democratically stop any of these companies or bend them to the will of the people - not really.


Sure we can - it's called regulation. Or more generally we as a democracy could pass any law we wanted. Of course it's not going to happen because most people have no idea what's going on so they aren't going to exercise their democratic political power. There's plenty of other countries that are more aware and don't have the massive wealth disparity we do. Tiny steps like Michael Moore talking about it start a change that makes people aware.

>> ^raverman:
Hmmm, the proletariat railing against the richest 1% from controlling everything was the cause of most of the 18th/19th century revolutions.
In ALL instances the leaders of the revolution became the new ruthless richest 1%.
Technically - the revolution, action and voice of the masses was a form of democracy. It's the same call to action outlined here.
Having said that: There is little difference between lords and nobles and rich corporations. Unless you lived in the forest, everyone lives and pays taxes to the lord that owns the land. Likewise, now, you can hardly avoid paying money to the corporations since in one form or another they own everything you need to survive.
Sure you elect a president, congress, senate - but they are powerless to stop the might of the drug, food, insurance, banking, media conglomerates, and the rest of the unelected giants that actually control the world we live in. We can't democratically stop any of these companies or bend them to the will of the people - not really.


Not to mention those elected officials are part of that same 1% elite.

Craig's great, but... darn it all, I can't get past Wolf's Jeopardy fail. I have lost all respect.
How can I see him now except as a lump of meat they put in front of important people to dispense questions and slow down the conversation? Can I ever watch CNN again?

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>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^rebuilder:
I swear, once I get sufficient privileges, I'm downvoting any sifts that contain "fail" used as a noun in the title or description. "Epic Fail" would warrant double-downvoting, if that were possible, and this video, since the commentator also uses the phrase, deserves to go straight down to Hades.

Comment fail.


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