A better politician could have withstood Blitzer better (or never have been in that position to begin with), but I thought that was a deplorable, overly-sharp p

A better politician could have withstood Blitzer better (or never have been in that position to begin with), but I thought that was a deplorable, overly-sharp public attack thinly-veiled as journalism. As the YouTube commentors point out, it fails most of the purposes of journalism. It's almost like Blitzer personally despises Chafee, or wants his "journalism" to take part in ousting Chafee. It was very unprofessional and abusive of his position. There were other ways he could have phrased it to actually produce something journalistically useful and appropriate.