Wolf Blitzer Worries About Crowd at Reagan Viewing

So what does Wolf Blitzer think is most important about the viewing of President Reagan in California?

Why, the diversity of the crowd, of course.

Isn’t that what you’d want to know?

CNN Worries If Those at Reagan Viewing
“Look Like America?”

Reagan mourners are not diverse enough for CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer who wanted to know if those waiting hours to see Ronald Reagan lying in repose at the Reagan Library “look like America,” meaning: “Are they ethnically diverse, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, or is it largely white?”

Just a couple of minutes past noon EDT on Tuesday, June 8, MRC analyst Ken Shepherd noticed, Blitzer asked CNN reporter Thelma Gutierrez, who was at the Reagan Library: “Can you tell, Thelma, and clearly this is unscientific, but, if the crowds really look like America? Are they ethnically diverse, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, or is it largely white?”

Gutierrez avoided the racially-polarizing nature of Blitzer’s question as she responded: “That’s an interesting question. As we went into the main lobby area, we noticed that, really, there was a cross-section, especially this morning. I noticed that there were many Asians. There were old people, young people, veterans. Many people, very, very choked up, very moved by what they’d just experienced.”

What the bloody hell does that have to do with anything? Of course, Wolf was fishing for the answer to be “White people, mostly,” because that mounts nicely on the conservative stereotypes, right along with rednecks and wheat blades in people’s mouths.

Get over it Wolf. People of all stripes are mourning the death of a great man while you try to turn it into a racial issue.

Source: Media Research Center

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  • http://members.cox.net/truth-seeker Chet

    Apparently Wolf never heard the term South Park Republican. Or even acknowledges people like Tammy Bruce, former LA NOW President turned Reagan-admirer and Republican. Or Larry Elder, the Sage from South Central, a black man who never hesitates to remind people that under Reagan “blacks made more economic progress under Reagan than did whites, that blacks created more businesses and at a faster rate than did whites, that their revenues grew faster than whites’, that unemployment for black teens fell faster than for white teens…”

    We can go on and on with examples of people that don’t fit the narrow-minded stereotypes of people that admired one of the greatest leaders Mankind has ever known. Blitzer would still be an ass.

  • http://http:/www.robertkbrown.com/ RKB

    I was a little disappointed watching CNN this morning, as Bill Hemmer interviewed a Republican Senator (I forget his name already), asking how he felt when he saw the huge crowds of people paying their respects to Reagan.

    The answer?

    “Gratifying. It is extremely gratifying.”

  • http://www.insingificantthoughts.com Vinny

    What the fuck kind of answer is that?

    Fucking whole world has come unglued, I tell you…

  • http://http:/www.robertkbrown.com/ RKB

    The transcript is up. Here’s the part I’d watched:

    HEMMER: Again, a remarkable scene really on Constitution Avenue last night, right around six, seven o’clock local time. There were at least 15 to 20 people deep on the side of the road and many small children, too, under the ages of 12 and less. And it seemed like just about everyone had a disposable camera in their hands. And as the caisson rolled up Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol Building, everyone fell in silence. And after the casket passed, everyone applauded, as this ripple of applause went through the crowd.

    It was quite a scene and quite a moment, as so many Americans came out last night, turning around and walking away in their own silence after the casket had concluded its mission and its journey to Capitol Hill.

    One man waiting inside when that casket arrived, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, our guest here now in Washington.

    Senator, good morning to you and thank you for your time.

    SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY WH

    HEMMER: Last night, what was that feeling like?

    MCCONNELL: Well, for those of us who were foot soldiers in the Reagan revolution 24 years ago, it was extraordinarily gratifying to see the most important conservative president in American history get this kind of reception, not only in California, where it might be expected, but here in the nation’s capital.

    The numbers of people coming out, the adulation expressed for former President Reagan is really quite gratifying.

  • http://members.cox.net/truth-seeker Chet

    Apparently Wolf never heard the term South Park Republican. Or even acknowledges people like Tammy Bruce, former LA NOW President turned Reagan-admirer and Republican. Or Larry Elder, the Sage from South Central, a black man who never hesitates to remind people that under Reagan “blacks made more economic progress under Reagan than did whites, that blacks created more businesses and at a faster rate than did whites, that their revenues grew faster than whites’, that unemployment for black teens fell faster than for white teens…”

    We can go on and on with examples of people that don’t fit the narrow-minded stereotypes of people that admired one of the greatest leaders Mankind has ever known. Blitzer would still be an ass.

  • RKB

    I was a little disappointed watching CNN this morning, as Bill Hemmer interviewed a Republican Senator (I forget his name already), asking how he felt when he saw the huge crowds of people paying their respects to Reagan.

    The answer?

    “Gratifying. It is extremely gratifying.”

  • http://www.insingificantthoughts.com/ Vinny

    What the fuck kind of answer is that?

    Fucking whole world has come unglued, I tell you…

  • RKB

    The transcript is up. Here’s the part I’d watched:

    HEMMER: Again, a remarkable scene really on Constitution Avenue last night, right around six, seven o’clock local time. There were at least 15 to 20 people deep on the side of the road and many small children, too, under the ages of 12 and less. And it seemed like just about everyone had a disposable camera in their hands. And as the caisson rolled up Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol Building, everyone fell in silence. And after the casket passed, everyone applauded, as this ripple of applause went through the crowd.

    It was quite a scene and quite a moment, as so many Americans came out last night, turning around and walking away in their own silence after the casket had concluded its mission and its journey to Capitol Hill.

    One man waiting inside when that casket arrived, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, our guest here now in Washington.

    Senator, good morning to you and thank you for your time.

    SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY WH

    HEMMER: Last night, what was that feeling like?

    MCCONNELL: Well, for those of us who were foot soldiers in the Reagan revolution 24 years ago, it was extraordinarily gratifying to see the most important conservative president in American history get this kind of reception, not only in California, where it might be expected, but here in the nation’s capital.

    The numbers of people coming out, the adulation expressed for former President Reagan is really quite gratifying.