Dasher and Dancer and Donner and Blitzer

On CNN last night, Wolf Blitzer was beside himself with rage over the fact that the U.S. Government had failed to keep all these things secret from him.

-Glenn Greenwald

I think I have accused Glenn Greenwald of humorlessness before, but I take it back. That right there is a nice bit of understated humor. I definitely lolz'd, and not just because it felicitously describes the entire edifice of the American newsmedia reporting on the reporting of secrets, but because it illuminates so perfectly the style of Wolf Blitzer, a man whose every fiber of being seems to revolt violently against the prospect of knowing anything.