The CNN Wolf Blitzer Drinking Game!

February 16, 2017

The CNN Wolf Blitzer Drinking Game!

If you can’t get enough CNN, and Wolf Blitzer’s sexy monotone run-on sentences have you all alight, then you, friend, are the perfect candidate for the Wolf Blitzer Drinking Game! Let’s make an intoxicating game out of the end of the world. Let’s get Blitzered.

That’s it. Any more and you would die.

Special thanks to readers Katy and Lyle for their suggestions on making this game even greater!

(And if reality isn’t your bag right now, perhaps you might enjoy my exciting West Wing drinking game!)

KatieUsingWords

Ruining Television

Booze, CNN, Politics

11 responses to “The CNN Wolf Blitzer Drinking Game!”

Cable News Loves War | Beatriz Simpkins

April 8, 2017

[…] If not excitement, then “drama,” to put it in the recent words of CNN News President Jeff Zucker. Talking to Jonathan Mahler of the New York Times Magazine about political coverage, Zucker offered the idea of the news as a drama and CNN’s on-air talent as “characters” in that production. It’s not a stretch to see his coverage of the war as another performance piece, designed to engage viewers the way a play or movie might. Wolf as your unbearable uncle. Erin Burnett as your slightly-over-her-head screwball ingénue, Anderson Cooper as the versatile matinee actor who can wrap his act in earnestness or play for laughs. To succeed, the shows don’t have to deliver. Like soap opera all they need do is make you think you’ll miss something if you tune out. No wonder, then, that Blitzer favorite line is, “Stand by.” […]

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Cable News Loves War | BuzzJour

April 8, 2017

[…] If not excitement, then “drama,” to put it in the recent words of CNN News President Jeff Zucker. Talking to Jonathan Mahler of the New York Times Magazine about political coverage, Zucker offered the idea of the news as a drama and CNN’s on-air talent as “characters” in that production. It’s not a stretch to see his coverage of the war as another performance piece, designed to engage viewers the way a play or movie might. Wolf as your unbearable uncle. Erin Burnett as your slightly-over-her-head screwball ingénue, Anderson Cooper as the versatile matinee actor who can wrap his act in earnestness or play for laughs. To succeed, the shows don’t have to deliver. Like soap opera all they need do is make you think you’ll miss something if you tune out. No wonder, then, that Blitzer favorite line is, “Stand by.” […]

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Cable News Loves War – politicalnews

April 8, 2017

[…] If not excitement, then “drama,” to put it in the recent words of CNN News President Jeff Zucker. Talking to Jonathan Mahler of the New York Times Magazine about political coverage, Zucker offered the idea of the news as a drama and CNN’s on-air talent as “characters” in that production. It’s not a stretch to see his coverage of the war as another performance piece, designed to engage viewers the way a play or movie might. Wolf as your unbearable uncle. Erin Burnett as your slightly-over-her-head screwball ingénue, Anderson Cooper as the versatile matinee actor who can wrap his act in earnestness or play for laughs. To succeed, the shows don’t have to deliver. Like soap opera all they need do is make you think you’ll miss something if you tune out. No wonder, then, that Blitzer favorite line is, “Stand by.” […]

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Cable News Loves War | Tiffany Favorites

April 8, 2017

[…] If not excitement, then “drama,” to put it in the recent words of CNN News President Jeff Zucker. Talking to Jonathan Mahler of the New York Times Magazine about political coverage, Zucker offered the idea of the news as a drama and CNN’s on-air talent as “characters” in that production. It’s not a stretch to see his coverage of the war as another performance piece, designed to engage viewers the way a play or movie might. Wolf as your unbearable uncle. Erin Burnett as your slightly-over-her-head screwball ingénue, Anderson Cooper as the versatile matinee actor who can wrap his act in earnestness or play for laughs. To succeed, the shows don’t have to deliver. Like soap opera all they need do is make you think you’ll miss something if you tune out. No wonder, then, that Blitzer favorite line is, “Stand by.” […]

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Cable News Loves War | Tom Williams

April 8, 2017

[…] If not excitement, then “drama,” to put it in the recent words of CNN News President Jeff Zucker. Talking to Jonathan Mahler of the New York Times Magazine about political coverage, Zucker offered the idea of the news as a drama and CNN’s on-air talent as “characters” in that production. It’s not a stretch to see his coverage of the war as another performance piece, designed to engage viewers the way a play or movie might. Wolf as your unbearable uncle. Erin Burnett as your slightly-over-her-head screwball ingénue, Anderson Cooper as the versatile matinee actor who can wrap his act in earnestness or play for laughs. To succeed, the shows don’t have to deliver. Like soap opera all they need do is make you think you’ll miss something if you tune out. No wonder, then, that Blitzer favorite line is, “Stand by.” […]

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Cable News Loves War | Al Green

April 9, 2017

[…] If not excitement, then “drama,” to put it in the recent words of CNN News President Jeff Zucker. Talking to Jonathan Mahler of the New York Times Magazine about political coverage, Zucker offered the idea of the news as a drama and CNN’s on-air talent as “characters” in that production. It’s not a stretch to see his coverage of the war as another performance piece, designed to engage viewers the way a play or movie might. Wolf as your unbearable uncle. Erin Burnett as your slightly-over-her-head screwball ingénue, Anderson Cooper as the versatile matinee actor who can wrap his act in earnestness or play for laughs. To succeed, the shows don’t have to deliver. Like soap opera all they need do is make you think you’ll miss something if you tune out. No wonder, then, that Blitzer favorite line is, “Stand by.” […]

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Katy

May 1, 2017

Drink every time he says ‘Right now’, his most favorite phrase

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1. Haunted Coconut
  
  May 1, 2017
  
  Ooh, that’s a good one, too!
  
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Lyle

January 12, 2021

We drink every time he repeats a word for emphasis, it happens a lot🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

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1. KatieUsingWords
  
  January 12, 2021
  
  I think I may need to add that one. Excellent!
  
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Another Katie

January 7, 2024

There was a Democratic convention, from which CNN was broadcasting, “ON THE FLOOR!” and to this day, when that phrase comes up in normal conversation, we all sound like Wolfie, (pronounced like it was in Amadeus, IYKYK), repeating it load and proud, and like a toast! So grateful we aren’t drinkers, or it would have been Game Over, ha!

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