Posted on 06/01/2015 8:41:20 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Sunday on Fox News Channels Media Buzz, retiring host of CBSs Face the Nation Bob Schieffer said maybe the mainstream media was not skeptical enough about then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) when he ran for president in 2008.
When host Howard Kurtz asked, Many people in this country, as you know, think the three broadcast networks are too biased, too liberal. Would you agree looking back in the media gave Barack Obama an incredibly easy ride in 2008, and for much of his presidency?
Schieffer said, Well, I think, I think the whole political world was struck by this fella who sort of came out of nowhere with this very unusual name and when he won out in Iowa, I think people sat up and took notice.
He added, Maybe we were not skeptical enough. It was a campaign.
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Ya think???
And who was it that tried to warn everyone?
And who was mocked and ridiculed warning them?
(hint: The TEA party folks)
Laughable.
A rather graphic analogy, but it works.
What? MAYBE THE LAME STREAM MEDIA WASN’T SKEPTICAL OF OBAMA? The minute OBAMA said he was running, these people, pushed each other away, trying to be the first one to KISS HIS ASS. It’s a fact, that they all got on their knees and started sanctifying OBAMA. MAYBE? My lord in heaven, Are we going to listen to this liar again?
It only took seven years to spit out something obvious... Friggin’ amazing!
Duhhh . . . ya think??????
translation: I’m retiring so they can’t end my career for saying that now.
Schieffer is at the top of list of media elites who were not skeptical of the unknown and unqualified Obama. The media’s complete failure/refusal to force him to even define “hope and change” was breathtaking in its bias.
This was an epic, and deliberate, failure by the fourth estate to uphold any journalistic standards. The media failed the country in ways that will reverberate for decades to come.
Bob is simply being slightly humble now that his run is at an end. It is self-serving. The truth remains that he and his buddies run the largest most aggressive propaganda machine in American and possibly world history. His statement is embarassing and trivial—it pales in light of that.
CYA in a political theater vein.
Especially the second time.
YA THINK??????????
Apparently not.................
I actually think this guy is that dumb.
And this is a man who thinks the public should let “journalists” interpret the facts for them—and decide what they should know.
I’m digging deep into my memory (not as easy at it used to be!) to before Hussein’s first election, and listening to Rush (I think it was Rush). Seems that he played audio of a couple of MSM talking heads discussing Obama, and that Schieffer was one of them. He asked the other guy something like, “But what do we really know about him?” Then the MSM people giggled. I could be remembering wrong; not sure.
Just because there is a truism from the Bible does not invalidate it - Matthew 7 "15"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16"You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17"So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
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