Richter is a helluva guy behind his teddy bear exterior. As for Blitzer, there's a story about how dumb he is on Poe News today. He was seriously confused by a package of broth because it had a picture of soup on the front as a serving suggestion.
PoE-News may be gone forever for real now, but fortunately Google cached the story:
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Wolf Blitzer apparently lives around my folks and i sometimes see him around town when i visit. Around Thanksgiving i went to pick up a few things to cook at the Safeway and ran into Wolf in the soup aisle i was grabbing a dozen cans of vegetable stock for turkey brine and Wolf was carefully studying this carton of chicken broth.
as i'm about to leave Wolf asks,
Wolf: I'm sorry but do you know anything about broth?
nage: i guess i know a little.
Wolf: Well look at this. This recipe says it needs 5 cups of chicken broth and this box says "chicken broth" and it looks like the price is a pretty good deal but the picture on the box has noodles and chucks of chicken and carrots on it. All i need is just the broth. Do you think this is like a chicken noodle soup or is this just the liquid?
nage: That's just the chicken broth. its just liquid.
Wolf: Are you sure?
nage: Absolutely
Wolf: They shouldn't put a picture with noodles and carrots on this its a little misleading. Thanks.
Why not? They had to redesign the set at some point to appeal to the hip youngsters of Generation X, and this new look is totally extreme for the 90's! RAD!
I don't care. Fuck Andy Richter and Conan O'brien. Those tools were hand selected by a focus group to cater to my demographic. I'm tired of Conan's self-effacing shtick and Richter's snobby-ness. Hey, my neighbor gets drunk on the weekends and acts like a sarcastic prick. He's a fat-ass too!! Why not give him a show??