…as in “big momentum,” we assume?

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We didn’t see this scenario play out on CNN for ourselves, but this blogger provides a pretty scathing blow-by-blow of the anchor’s apparently lackluster analysis.

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The NY Observer today slams Wolf Blitzer’s CNN debate coverage: “Once the gold standard for all-news television, the Cable News Network used the night to make a convincing argument that it should never again be entrusted with a presidential debate.”

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“I watched about the first hour of it and then I thought I was getting stupider, so I turned it off,” said Fox’s Chris Wallace on yesterday’s Fox & Friends regarding the recent Democratic debate on rival network CNN. “I should say ‘even stupider.’ But that’s more a commentary on CNN than it is on the Democrats.”

“What is the reluctance to let one candidate engage another candidate?” FOX anchor Shepard Smith then asked. “It seemed like there was a buzzer going to go off every time things got real.

“FOX, I have to say, I think we’re smarter.” Wallace replied. “We let the guy talk for a minute, at the end of the minute the bell rings, and that’s it. You’ve got a minute and you can do with it what you want. But instead we have Wolf Blitzer every 30 seconds going ‘Okay, okay, okay.’”

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Shame, shame, shame on Washington’s own Wolf Blitzer. The CNN anchor has failed to appear on Ellen DeGeneres’ program to date (despite repeated overtures from her), but, thankfully, the daytime funny lady isn’t holding his snub against our fair city.

Ellen said on today’s program that yesterday’s show–which featured Ballou High School marching-band director Darrell Watson and his students performing “I Love the Way You Move”–was one of her all-time favorites.

And after Ellen’s promotion of a new documentary focused on Watson’s nationally ranked band from an exceptionally crime-ridden neighborhood in DC, the White House has decided to hold a screening in front of George and Laura Bush.

Wolf, get on a damn plane. She’s worth it.

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The Democratic Presidential candidate tells CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the progressive Web movement should not have attacked Gen. Petraeus with its recent New York Times “General Betray Us” ad. He’s also set to appear before the NRA.

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Ellen DeGeneres is playing a little hardball with her male cable anchor crushes, it seems. Yesterday, the talker got MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews on the phone during her popular daytime program.

But, alas, it was just a play to get the attention of the real man of her dreams. While chatting about the new O.J. Simpson case, a crawl across the bottom of the screen read: “Ellen’s on the phone with Chris Matthews because Wolf Blitzer wouldn’t take her call.”

When DeGeneres asked Matthews about CNN’s Blitzer, the squawker was obviously hurt: “He’s a little different than me.” Matthews then told the gay icon to “dump him, get me on. Forget him. It’s a rivalry here.”

Which leaves us wondering: Who’s cuter? Matthews or Blitzer? And who would be better in a threesome with Anderson Cooper?

Earlier: Wolf Blitzer Gives Ellen the Cold Shoulder

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Recent scene from Chris Matthews’ Hardball green room at 400 N. Capitol Street — where there are more big headed egos than there were jellybeans in the Reagan White House:

The TV is tuned to a CNN Wolf Blitzer Situation Room interview with Robert Draper, author of the new book Dead Certain, which is deeply critical of the Bush administration.

Mary Matalin, famed conservative squawker, shouts: “This guy!”……

To which Andy Card, former White House Chief of Staff, responds, “Oh, we were directed to cooperate with him.”

Matalin proceeds to roll her eyes and whispers under her breath, “Idiot.”

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Rude:

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The CNN anchor took the Big Apple by storm yesterday to talk at a Reuters event held in his honor. Sources tell Big Head DC that after the event, Blitzer was seen at a popular local bar, waxing poetic about the good ole days he spent at the news wire service. And his lips became a little loose about his tenure at CNN. 

“The Situation Room is getting stale,” he told those at his table, between sips of an unidentified beverage. “But we’ve got some surprises coming down the pike.”

He also said that he was dismayed, but not surprised, by Dick Cheney’s recent on-air scolding of him for asking about Mary Cheney’s pregnancy.

Blitzer has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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