the idf guy saying 'thats not what we're saying' when that literally was what he was saying and he knows it and how he fucked up

Link the tweet too then.

What do you mean "Let it slide"? He repeatedly pressed the guy on the point. He cut the spokesman off when he tried to change the subject. He stayed on the point about Isreal bombing innocents for as long as he reasonably could, and refused to accept any of the evasive and weasely answers the spokesman tried to give him.

What exactly do you want here? For him to scream at the guy, call him a murderer, tell him he's going to burn in hell? That's not journalism, that's self-indulgence. Wolf was doing exactly what a good journalist should do, trying to get to the truth of the story, and he only gave up when he'd gotten as far as he could from this particular avenue.

"There was a hamas commander so we dropped a giant bomb on a refugee camp full of women and children."

"It sounds like I'm hearing you dropped a bomb on a refugee camp full of woman and children to kill a hamas commander."

"No. Uhh, tunnels. Complicated situation."

he didnt let it slide?

No self respecting anybody would be called "Wolf Blitzer" like what kind of dumbass childish crap is that

Not OP but I think they meant supporters of neoliberal economic policy and somewhat progressive social policies. "Liberal" like American liberal politics. The point being that they think they have good politics because they think trans people are people and aren't the kind of right wing fanatic we get a lot of. They're "left" to the extent that the American political spectrum allows for without understanding what "left" actually means, without being conscious of the overarching machinations that make then think their politics are good even as they continue to feed a system that intentionally blinds them to any honest criticism.