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I once saw a picture of Wolf Blitzer done up in the style of a motivational poster suggesting he might be a Keebler defector.

Remember Gulf War One, where the army of George the First sallied forth to throw Iraq out of Kuwait? One of the things I remember most about that epoch was the inevitability of the Truth According to Wolf. Yes, I’m talking about Wolf Blitzer, he of the immaculately trimmed beard and seemingly limitless availability on CNN – the official talking head of Operation Desert Storm.

Wolf has such a catchy name that I was surprised how he’d managed to stay off my cluttered radar until he showed up talking about that war. Maybe it was the 24/7 Wolf barrage I got every time I found myself near a television. Anyway, now we come forward to reportage that hits us every morning over coffee as we watch Canada AM, Canada’s mildly annoying morning news source that we all watch out of a sense of duty. The latest talking head, interviewed daily of late by Bev Thompson on the subject of the current unpleasantness in Egypt, is ABC News Africa correspondent Martin Seemungal (pronounced SEE – MUNGLE). He seems a very nice man who is not really annoying at all, and we can’t imagine what he did that was so bad ABC banished him to Africa, but are Mrs. LFM and I the only ones who get this as soon as we hear his name?