The Airportline: Observations

Me and my room mate watch a lot of CNN, our favourite show is The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. To be able to have Wolf (or ‘Wolfie’ as we call him) Blitzer steering you through the most interesting and most uninteresting issues of the American day in the situation room is like crack for us. If crack would be a good thing. Wolf has an impressive resume to say the least, here is part of his life according to Wikipedia:

At an April 1977 White House press conference, Blitzer asked Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes and journalists were not permitted to visit Israel. Sadat, somewhat taken aback, responded that such visits would be possible after an end to the state of belligerence between the two nations. This was the first time Sadat said that peace between Israel and Egypt was possible. In November of that year, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel, and Blitzer covered the negotiations between the two countries from the first joint Israeli-Egyptian press conference in 1977 to the final negotiations that would lead to the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty two years later.

This is one reason for loving Wolf. The other one is his impeccable ability to make everything seem urgent and dramatic. People are ‘standing by’ all over the place in the Situation Room, and, in case we would ever forget he makes sure to say ‘the best political team on television’ at least once every five minutes. He is everything our lest favorite CNN-journalist, the painfully unfunny and tactless, Jonathan Mann is not.

Tomorrow the band that inspired me to name my blog The Airportline explain what their song "The Airport Line" really is about. Only on airportline.blogspot.com