Soledad O’Brien is smarter than Wolf Blitzer, but that’s not saying much

October 20, 2009, 2:00 am · 4 comments

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Last month Wolf Blitzer embarrassed himself, his friends, his family and anyone he’s ever met with his pathetic performance on Celebrity Jeopardy. On the off chance that Wolf’s appearance hadn’t caused CNN enough humiliation, Soledad O’Brien took her turn with the dunce’s cap last week.

Soledad O'Brien has inherited Wolf Blitzer's Jeopardy dunce cap

Soledad O'Brien has inherited Wolf Blitzer's Jeopardy dunce cap

As is now expected for CNN anchors, she finished in third place with $6,200. Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar finished second with $8,800. Actor Michael McKean finished first with $24,800.

The Jeopardy board has 30 questions. The Double Jeopardy board has another 30. And Final Jeopardy has one question. That’s a total of 61 questions. Soledad answered eight questions correctly and three questions incorrectly.

Unfortunately, one of the questions she missed was Final Jeopardy.

And the Final Jeopardy answer: “Trees with biblical names include the Joshua tree & the world’s oldest tree, a 4,700-year old pine named for him. Soledad’s incorrect question was “Who is Moses?” The correct answer, of course, was “Who was Methuselah?” Of course, it would be foolhardy to expect anyone at CNN to be familiar with the bible.

This Celebrity Jeopardy gig isn’t working out too well for CNN. Maybe they should try Celebrity Wheel of Fortune next time.

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hutch1200 October 20, 2009, 5:32 am at 5:32 am

She’s filing a formal appeal. CNN lawyers claim the correct answer is “ACORN”!

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Phil October 20, 2009, 9:44 am at 9:44 am
Administrator October 20, 2009, 10:55 am at 10:55 am

Hey Phil, thanks for the laugh. I’m going to leave this on with a link to you site’s fake news article so people can see how liberals lie.

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Dave October 20, 2009, 1:21 pm at 1:21 pm

I have been a student of the media for about 20 years – started in college. I have worked for pols (both parties – interships etc) and found that the media – print, local tv, national, is univerally filled with people who are, for want of a better word, less than average in intelligence. The television media is full of fashion models who read teleprompters and pundits who claim to be or act like they are experts in everything – when in reality they are for the most part parroting some talking points fed to them by a politician, lobbyist, consultant or other media professional. A lot of people here probably know a lot about a specific area. I know a decent amount about law. I read SCOTUS cases when they come out. Then I read the account in the media and find that the so called reporter is usually wrong or has oversimplified the matter, or worse, totally misstated the case to fit into the media outlet’s political agenda. In short, the idea that news personalities on tv or anywhere else are smarter than the rest of us is unfounded.
Wake up people, the media is full of morons.

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