Glenn Beck: Wolf Blitzer Atheist Interview Was Planned By Anti-Christian Producer [Video]
The Wolf Blitzer interview with the Oklahoma tornado survivor that went viral has prompted a conspiracy theory or semi-conspiracy theory from Glenn Beck that the whole thing was a set up.
On Tuesday, CNN’s Blitzer was interviewing survivors of the devastating EF-5 tornado that struck Oklahoma. Standing in front of the destruction in Moore, Blitzer inexplicably asked survivor Rebecca Vitsmun, who was holding her 19-month-old son, if she had thanked the Lord for surviving the twister.
There’s a short pause, and Vitsmun replied “I’m actually an atheist,” with an awkward laugh.
Blitzer stumbled, offering a pat on the back and a weird “you made the right call,” before Vitsmun very diplomatically responded: “We are here, and you know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord.”
The embarassing interview sparked a huge social media debate over whether it was appropriate for Blitzer to have asked such a question in the first place.
TV/radio commentator Glenn Beck chimed in with his analysis of what he deemed the bizarre exchange which may be actually less a conspiracy theory than a reflection of mainstream media culture.
Said Beck: “I really like Wolf Blitzer and I think he’s a really good man. But I’ve done radio and television long enough to know that question was peculiar in the way it was stated, even for Wolf, who I think is a religious man. It just wasn’t natural; it seemed forced…”
Beck continued with his theory of what was actually behind the Wolf Blitzer interview: “It’s not as nefarious perhaps as you might think … I think he was fed some information about the guest he had on beforehand — that’s what producers do — given some questions that he should ask … some producer who is sympathetic to the atheist plight or just doesn’t like Christians or whatever it is, who thought it was important to point out that in the middle of heartland in America, where most people are God-fearing, there are atheists there too.”
Added Beck about the Blitzer interview: “It doesn’t have to be nefarious. We are not fighting against flesh and bone. We are fighting the forces of spiritual darkness, and it doesn’t matter what people’s intent are, but I will tell you that that was there for a reason.”
Regardless of whether you agree that any forces of spiritual darkness are involved, do you think CNN was engaging in some form of inappropriate religious profiling in the way the Wolf Blitzer atheist interview was orchestrated?
