One of my new favorite pasttimes is making fun of “The Situation Room” on CNN. It seems like they’ve expanded it last pretty as long as Wolf Blitzer can stay awake and they’re using the “feeds coming in from all over the world” in more and more of their normal reporting.

I’m not the only one that thinks it’s all a little over the top:

From today’s Situation Room:

WOLF BLITZER: That’s fascinating, watching a friend or relative flying some place, you go there at flight explorer.com and you can see it almost realtime. Thank you. Useful information in “The Situation Room.” Let’s get more useful information, Jack cafferty. I almost said useless information, Jack, but i corrected myself.

JACK CAFFERTY: Has that been a Freudian slip? How many hours have you been on your feet? Too many? They should pay you by the hour. This show is a telethon without a disease. It goes on and on and on.

I don’t always agree with Cafferty, but I like that he’s a kind of check on the utmost seriousness and truth that Blitzer continually attempts to portray on the program. Being an observer for most of the show, it seems like Cafferty is the only one at CNN who will say what the viewers are thinking.

Thanks to Wonkette