CNN’s Attempt to Listen in on Caucus Results Backfires Spectacularly

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The Iowa Democratic Party hung up on a caucus secretary’s shared call with Wolf Blitzer. Watch the moment here:

Nationally televised alleged prank-caller Wolf Blitzer. Photo: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Turner Amid the unprecedented delay in reporting the results of the Iowa caucuses on Monday night, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer got on the phone with Shawn Sebastian, the caucus secretary for Story County Precinct 1-1 in the state. Earlier, Sebastian had tweeted that he had been on hold “for over an hour” after trying to call in the precinct’s results to the Iowa Democratic Party.

Then, in the middle of speaking with Blizter on what appeared to be a shared line, someone at the Iowa Democratic Party picked up. And when Sebastian didn’t respond quickly, because he was talking to Blitzer — she promptly hung up.

 

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So funny!

This was funny in real time. In that “it’s funny when it’s not happening to you” type of way.

LMAO! Unreal. Our media is a menace, but necessary. They need to STFU for a few hours to sort out party lines and stop vying for attention.

They heard the wolf call

From the article: “Blizter” was pretty hard for me to get past autocorrect on Twitter, how’d it get past NY Magazines autocorrect and an editor?

Is this Hell? No, it's Iowa. 😏

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