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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hate how articles like this don't link the actual video.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The video is in an embedded tweet.

Here's a YouTube link I found, doesn't have the gaza footage. https://youtu.be/hyqFFsRifFM?si=AInna89KnC3CXGIH

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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

the idf guy saying 'thats not what we're saying' when that literally was what he was saying and he knows it and how he fucked up

[–] broface@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Modern journalism: telling us rather than showing us.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair. It does have the news reporter tweet with the video embedded though.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

For real wtf

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

They might have added it later, I’m not sure, but the video is in the X post at the bottom of the article - I just watched it through the article.

[–] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s almost as if, and hear me out guys, ISRAEL ARE NOT THE GOOD GUYS HERE.

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[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Good Guys™ strike again!

[–] Zastyion345@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Strike I see what you did there :)

[–] MrKillmister@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think he just didn't know what else to say when he pretended they were losing sound.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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."

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 1 year ago

Wild to watch this CNN elder short circuit because he can't figure out how to make the narrative fit.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 1 year ago

To me it seemed like he was struggling to give the IDF guy an out and make it fit the narrative.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No self respecting anybody would be called "Wolf Blitzer" like what kind of dumbass childish crap is that

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if it seems like the headline claims, but in my case, from what I saw, Wolf had a cutout over the satalite feed, maybe on purpose? I hate it when the video isn't added in the article.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I genuinely feel bad for any liberals who haven't figured out they're basically just polite nazis. That's gotta be a really rough realization. Spending your entire life thinking you're doing the right thing only to suddenly have it revealed that everything you were living for was a lie.

Now for those of them that are aware what liberalism stands for and are still going? Straight to hell.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You somehow twisted this in your mind as some kind of gotcha that lets you preen in your selfish politics.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Define "liberal". Then maybe the rest of what you said can fall in place.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not OP but I think they meant supporters of neoliberal economic policy and somewhat progressive social policies. "Liberal" like American liberal politics. The point being that they think they have good politics because they think trans people are people and aren't the kind of right wing fanatic we get a lot of. They're "left" to the extent that the American political spectrum allows for without understanding what "left" actually means, without being conscious of the overarching machinations that make then think their politics are good even as they continue to feed a system that intentionally blinds them to any honest criticism.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

supporters of neoliberal economic policy and somewhat progressive social policies. "

There's nothing progressive about airstrikes on civilians. Never has been.

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[–] Grapetruth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's "at a loss for words", not "at a lost of words".

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a loss for words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.

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