Posted on 10/22/2012 2:01:08 PM PDT by NYer
CBS newsman Bob Schieffer will host the third debate tonight between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
The first two debates prompted outrage from pro-life conservatives over their bias — from biased questions and Romney twice having less time to talk during the debate to the moderator interrupting Romney more or letting Obama get the last word in more often.
Voters expecting a more fair and impartial debate this time around will be sorely disappointed — although it might be for the better that the debate is primarily expected to be focused on foreign policy issues. Schieffer made it clear earlier this year that he thinks, when it comes to social issues, that Republicans are too focused on pro-life topics.
In February, on Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, he pressed Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over how Republicans have supposedly moved “too far to the right” to win. Later, in an interview with Maryland’s Democratic Governor, Martin O’Malley, Schieffer claimed “we’ve spent the last couple of weeks here talking about running against birth control for goodness sake” — ignoring how the media attacked pro-lifers repeated with the War on Women mantra.
Meanwhile, Schieffer twice falsely credited Obama for having “backed away” from requiring religious groups to cover birth control and abortion-causing drugs.
He said: “We’ve spent the last couple of weeks here talking about running against birth control for goodness sake. I mean, I admit, I mean, I believe the President made a serious political mistake when he tried to say to the Catholic Church, you have to buy birth control pills for the folks that work in your hospitals and your schools and so forth. But he backed away from that. And yet, the Republicans keep pushing. They say that’s not enough. That you’ve got to be totally against the birth control.”
As Media Research Center writer Brent Baker noted:
Of course, Schieffer was unable to identify any candidate who is saying “you’ve got to be totally against the birth control.”
Then with O’Malley, he repeated the claim Obama “did back away” on the birth control mandate, and proceeded to again express bewilderment that’s not good enough for Republicans: “But is that going to be an issue, this whole idea of birth control, is that going to be an issue in this campaign?”
Next, Schieffer cued up O’Malley to denounce Republicans as extremists: “Well do you think it’s good for the President if Republicans try to concentrate on social issues?”
“...to reproduce responsibly and in proportion to ability to care for your own children”
glee, you are all over the board. Just where have you been the last 30 years? Repubs and Conservatives have been touting this for a long time, to no avail. Certain segments of society are NOT responsible and could care less about their “ability”. Do you get it yet!?
Stephanopolis (rat) was the first to inject it into the debate. The rest of the rats picked it up and ran with it for their phony war on women.
>> I am not aware of religious insurance companies.
I am quite aware of religious employers that self-ensure.
They have been all over the news. Thay have LAWSUITS pending, for goodness’ sake. Maybe you should take a little of the time you spend being stubborn and clueless, and apply it towards keeping current.
Schieffer’s picture is the best and cheapest form of birth control
I definitely don’t think government should be doing the planning and spacing. lol
Allowed? Who is stopping them? Encouraged by who? Big Nanny State? "Encouraged" by government like criminals are encouraged into the cell?
Keep government out of it
for crying out loud our side are cowards whe to comes to social issues so obviously this idiot has took the lefts talking points to his lefty little head
Then the government mandate was totally pointless and dumb because all insurance was doing it anyway, right?
Are you calling him out? Excellent. They are all diogenes.
Um, Bobby -
The Republicans are NOT the ones going around dressed like giant vaginas, you IDIOT!
Shouldn’t he be, like, keeping his mouth shut right before he’s supposed to be a “neutral’ moderator in a presidential debate?
Libtards...can’t do it the way it’s meant to be done. They HAVE no class!
except Romney WON both debates
you ain’t no judge
Exactly. Nor do we see the spectacle of intimidation when dozens of RAT senators and congresscritters publically condemned and threatened the Koman Foundation when they wanted to sever their relationship with Planned Parenthood.
I think most in the GOP would be all for dems using birth control.
Stuff it, bub. This is DO OR DIE for our country. If Romney doesn’t win, we are FINISHED and it isn’t going to be pretty!!
LIFE is a GIFT from GOD!!! Just because two people have sex doesn’t mena a baby develops!! LIFE IS A GIFT!! Bet you thank YOUR mom for giving you life!! EVERY life is valuable even if one is stupid.
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It's been a difficult and painful decision for me, but that is what I believe as well.
I proposed that your thesis be tested regarding the "too many people" part ~ there maybe, or there may not be.
Let me be the judge of that.
Your child serving in Afghanistan proboably doesn’t think he should have been aborted. We aren’;t talking about HIM/HER.....YOU we are talking about becauee YOU think there’s too many children in this world. Woe to you.
I find that the world is rather undeveloped, Alaska for instance is a third the size of the United States and has about 600,000 people living here. If you have ever driven across Nevada, you would be praying for more people.
If you want to plan for a smaller family, you can try abstinence. And studies have shown that schools that teach abstinence have much lower abortion and teen pregnancy rates than any that hand out condoms and teach underage children how to have sex, but not the moral implications of being parents.
I think the preferred choice of most parents is to teach their own children about sex based on their personal growth, not on a bell curve graded by a liberal politician. Might I point out that the largest study on sexual education took place in the school system over the last ten years, and it conclusively proved that if you teach children how to have sex, teenage pregnancy rates soar, along with Sexually Transmitted Disease.
Compare the 1960's teen pregnancy rates to the last decade when teachers foolishly took over moral issues instead of teaching children hard skills. This bothersome incursion by "Professionals" has resulted it the death of MILLIONS of people. Hitler does not hold a candle to the Progressive school systems of today.
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