Main Character Syndrome
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes, late of Como Park, emails:
Headline: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Gives Firsthand Account of WHCD Shooting: ‘I Was a Few Feet Away from Him as He Was Shooting,’ Says He Wondered, ‘Is He Trying to Shoot Me?’
I’m sure that was pretty much everybody’s first reaction: “Shots fired near the President. Holy cow, they must be trying to kill Wolf Blitzer.”
Joe Doakes
After eighty years on camera, or however long Wolf Blitzer’s been doing it, it’s probably hard not to think one is the main character.
