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I think he just didn't know what else to say when he pretended they were losing sound.
Wolf sucks. The IDF guy is admitting to mass murder right in front him and everyone. No self-respecting journalist would let it slide like that.
What do you mean "Let it slide"? He repeatedly pressed the guy on the point. He cut the spokesman off when he tried to change the subject. He stayed on the point about Isreal bombing innocents for as long as he reasonably could, and refused to accept any of the evasive and weasely answers the spokesman tried to give him.
What exactly do you want here? For him to scream at the guy, call him a murderer, tell him he's going to burn in hell? That's not journalism, that's self-indulgence. Wolf was doing exactly what a good journalist should do, trying to get to the truth of the story, and he only gave up when he'd gotten as far as he could from this particular avenue.
He could have questioned the certainty that a specific Hamas guy was even present in (or under, I guess) the camp in order to make the admission of guilt more specific. For example: https://twitter.com/martyrmade/status/1719572283436782057?t=UM-uSl5z89Ua4uaw0p2-xw&s=19
Other follow up questions might include "who specifically ordered the airstrike?" and "if you wanted to minimize civilian casualties, why conduct an airstrike on a refugee camp at all?".
And those follow up questions may well have been asked, if they hadn't lost sound on the call. But regardless of how you think you might have handled it, there was nothing wrong with the angle Wolf took here. He kept the focus squarely on the horrific nature of the decision and refused to let the guy weasel out of it.
I'm not so credulous to believe that they really lost sound, but okay.
Cool. Enjoy your tinfoil hat bud.
"There was a hamas commander so we dropped a giant bomb on a refugee camp full of women and children."
"It sounds like I'm hearing you dropped a bomb on a refugee camp full of woman and children to kill a hamas commander."
"No. Uhh, tunnels. Complicated situation."
Wild to watch this CNN elder short circuit because he can't figure out how to make the narrative fit.
he didnt let it slide?
To me it seemed like he was struggling to give the IDF guy an out and make it fit the narrative.
No self respecting anybody would be called "Wolf Blitzer" like what kind of dumbass childish crap is that
I'm completely certain it's his real name. Bigg Dingus, Mann Slappem, Guy Manly
Sure, like Manley Mann, or Gunn Smith. Or Shooter McMurican
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