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Wolf Blitzer Tells Kellyanne Conway Her Marriage ‘Has Issues’
One of Ricochet’s finest has encouraged us to be more concise. No problemo. My title is my article. Almost. I just can’t conform myself instantly to these new disciplines. I need some time to adjust. I’ll try to keep it short, though:
- Mark Steyn said, on Tucker’s show tonight, that Kellyanne Conway shoved Wolf Blitzer’s ploy down his throat.
- She said that Blitzer had embarrassed himself (about five seconds earlier…I wish I, and other American liberals, were that quick on our feet) by asserting on national TV that she, Kellyanne and her husband had marital problems, but that he didn’t want to talk about these presumed problems on national TV.
- Kellyanne brought the obvious contradiction to Blitzer’s attention, leaving him desperately dodging and trying to change the subject. (Wolf’s script presumably read, “Kellyanne is flustered by your personal attack, and starts weeping like any fragile woman would who is attacked by a famous, powerful Man like you, Wolf…”
Like Mark Steyn, I remarked–to the Boat Wife–on what Kellyanne did in real time to Blitzer, and by association to CNN and the establishment propaganda machine, in anatomical terms.
But what Kellyanne did to Wolf Blitzer on national TV, in my own anatomical metaphor, was the mirror image of Mark Steyn’s, in terms of the gastrointestinal tract.
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Good effort, Mark. Good effort.
OK fine. On word count, not up to the new standard.
But what about content? Brilliant, or just noteworthy? Don’t spare my feelings.
I saw that while grabbing breakfast at the hotel this morning.
He never really recovered. Nor did she answer his question.
Also, she dodged his attempt to claim that Trump leasing his Washington hotel was a violation of the Emoluments Clause.
George Conway is working hard on becoming this impeachment’s Martha Mitchell.
Did I miss a new directive?
Kelly Ann owned the entire interview. Wolf was more foolish than usual and she nailed him repeatedly.
Obviously.
Between Kellyanne’s remarks to Wolf and the Tucker Carlson-Mark Steyn segment, Brian Stelter already has half his segments for “Reliable Sources” set for Sunday.
I don’t get it. Maybe somebody could write a summary of what happened. Who, what, where, when, etc.
Easier to leave a link. Second video works.
Blitzer said Conway’s husband had a “substantive” criticism as a “legal scholar.” Hahahahaha! All he said was Orange Man Bad. Good lord, they could have rolled tape on CNN in any 30 second segment and heard that! Kellyanne’s great because she just laughs at Blitzer and his whole ridiculous profession.
Any post that calls me one of Ricochet’s finest has stellar content! Keep up the good work. ;-)
And Kellyanne’s ex . . .
I don’t think they’re Maitlin and Carville – I don’t know how she does it.
Poor guy is a a sheep in Wolf’s clothing.
So, before Kelly Ann Conway joined Trump’s team, how many times did Blitzer quote George Conway?
Bill O’Reilly’s take was that Zucker ordered Blitzer to bring up “marital issues” with Conway. O’Reilly said from his personal experience with Wolf, Blitzer would not have done so without direction. Tucker is similarly brutal with respect to Zucker’s control of and demands to “on air” correspondents. “This is CNN”, indeed.
In one of Conrad Black’s books he mentions that Blitzer was the most greedy employee he ever had.
The last time I saw a reporter confront KellyAnne about her husband and their marriage, her response was “Who are you? Oprah?”
The Project Veritas leak on the dealings going on at CNN indicates Zucker did something similar when Jake Tapper was interviewing Conway, so this would pretty much be par for the course. Zucker seems to hate Conway every bit as much as he hates Trump, probably because he blames her for settling down Trump’s campaign in 2016 and getting him elected.
“What did you just say?” Hahahahahaha
Egad. I haven’t seen a performance like that since judging high school debate tournaments.
That was a brilliant job by Ms. Conway. She de-boned him like a chicken.
My guess is she erected a barbed wire fence down the middle of the bed after his first public anti-Trump remark. It’s been there ever since . . .
I agree. Maitlin and Carville seemed to have at least some mutual respect for each other and the opponent candidate. I always found the Ragin’ Cajun at a minimum, amusing. And certainly as clever as the devil.
Mr KellyAnne, as far as I can see, is lacking in any positive qualities.
Blitzer’s analogy was incorrect only because Matlin and Carville were both in the same business, each representing opposing candidates and respected in their field. Conway is a lawyer, not a legal scholar, and there isn’t a journalist alive who would seek his opinion were he not married to KellyAnne. I can’t imagine being married to a man who didn’t support what I do and actively worked against me in public for his own self aggrandisement. On the other hand, she comes off as a tough and brittle woman. Maybe they stay together for the sake of the children, but surely they have separate bedrooms?
Tough? Yes. Brittle? I don’t see it . . .
b concise + give context? ~ can do, complaints to W.Chauv.
Maybe I used the wrong word. I’ve admired her defense of Trump since the campaign but have noticed a rigidity in her during the last year or so that is unbecoming. Just my opinion.
Wolf Blitzer – minus $4600 on Jeopardy an almost impossible feat that I have never seen equaled. It is permanently affixed to him in my mind.
These rubes are so blissfully self unaware that they can announce themselves as patent hypocrites in one sentence such as Blitzer’s here. I like this rhetorical play (“but I would rather not accuse the President | Speaker | Pope publicly of diddling small children because that would be awkward”) for its humorous play, but when the speaker is as clueless as Blitzer it can be awesomely delicious.
As painful and stupid as it has been, the Trump presidency continues to bring us these little bits of schadenfreude.