After blasting The Des Moines Register as ''a paper of no consequence,'' he turns his venom on Wolf Blitzer and his network. In an essay on TruthDig, Vidal fumes:

''It is so typical for CNN, a lousy network, and whatever that awful newspaper is called. Do we want to listen to them at the close of a primary campaign in a key state? They have nothing to say of any interest, and so they eliminate any voice that might say something intelligent. I have never felt more ashamed being an American than when I saw how this debate was handled.''

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