Schieffer Inserts Own Foot in Mouth

Oregon Magazine ^ | April 1, 2003 | Larry Leonard

[WaterDragon]

"(snip)...Here, then, is the truth. The badly planned, inefficiently run, laughable failure here is the war reporting by CBS, NBC and ABC. The fools of the century are not to be found in the White House. They are to be found at the networks. Bumbling clowns almost to a man and a woman, including Schieffer, they couldn’t accurately report an event if their lives depended on it. From the ludicrous and completely off-target coverage and analysis they presented during last year’s series of sniper shootings adjacent to Washington, D.C., to their abject failure to grasp the most simple of economic concepts (like the fact that ENRON as a company didn’t begin operations after January 20th, 2001), Mr. Schieffer and his network friends have a proven public track record of misunderstanding every event, large and small, they have ever covered.

From their lionizing of Jesse Jackson as a noble leader while he was blackmailing American corporations with threats of race demonstrations, then spending his ill-gotten gains on a mistress and bastard child, to their promotion of Barney Frank as an intelligent legislator while Dear Barney was unaware his boyfriend was running a house of prostitution in his, Barney’s, own basement, Schieffer and friends have daily demonstrated they haven’t a clue as to what is going on....(snip)

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[WaterDragon]

Really, no one skewers the liberal pinheads like Oregon Magazine does! LOL

[Utah Girl]

Excellent!!!

[basil]

Double excellent!!!!

[CyberAnt]

I have often wondered if the liberal pinheads ever get to read this - it's great stuff!!

[konaice]

"including Schieffer, they couldn't accurately report an event if their lives depended on it."
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Is there anyone who has been at any event covered by the press and upon reading about it or watching it afterwards, did not come away wondering what event the press was covering??

From local civic meetings to major disasters, you have to realize that the press gets wrong more often than not.

Only by reading several accounts, and dismissing out of hand those bits that are contradictory with other accounts can you come to something close to what happened.

Everyone faces accountability for their work product except Judges and reporters.

[glock rocks]

Bob Schieffer, mainstream American journalism’s answer to Lou Costello

what a refreshing rant. thanks.

[WaterDragon]

BTTT

[Betty Jane]

Is there anyone who has been at any event covered by the press and upon reading about it or watching it afterwards, did not come away wondering what event the press was covering??

My first experience with this phenomena was for my husband's 25th birthday. We had a surprise goofy miniature golfing birthday party, with funny hats, ballons, etc. A reporter showed up. (The golf course was looking for some publicity). What they reported, although not negative, was not the same event I hosted. It was my first experience of that kind.

Ever since, I look at all news stories with a jaundiced eye. Since having Free Republic, Fox News and talk radio, I've been extremely discerning about all news.

[lainde]

Wow! BTTT

[lawnguy]

Is there anyone who has been at any event covered by the press and upon reading about it or watching it afterwards, did not come away wondering what event the press was covering??

My moment of truth came during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, when I would listen to the hearings on NPR all day, and then go home and see the reports. They were shamelesy misleading and provided nothing of any substance to the viewer (customer?) who was watching for information. I've never trusted them since.

BTW, that was also the time when Nina Totenberg managed to do the one thing no democrat ever could do: piss off john Danforth :)

[Lancey Howard]

A classic!
Bookmarked, and BUMP!

[NormsRevenge]

Bump

[Not now, Not ever!]

BUMP, Because it is just so right!

[jimkress]

I deeply resent this defamation of Lou Costello.

[BOOTSTICK]

Bob Schieffer BRAINS!

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Is there anyone who has been at any event covered by the press and upon reading about it or watching it afterwards, did not come away wondering what event the press was covering??

I was actually one of three people interviewed for a story about young people on their way to college (this was back when I actually was a young person), and my part was at least half of the full story when printed. The "quotes" of what I said were absolutely nothing like what I really said, and the article ended up portraying my attitudes very differently from what they actually were. It was then (at 18) that I realized that the press doesn't hear anything but what they want to hear, even if that's not what the subect of the story is actually saying....

[beaversmom]

"CBS cannot, therefore, tell the difference between an unabused Moslem terrorist being fed three times a day, and the videotaped corpses of American soldiers who after being captured had their brains blown out."

That was my favorite part of the article. This sums up the problem with the liberal media. To tell the truth though, they can tell the difference which then makes their motives sinister IMO.

[doug from upland]

I triple guarantee you (as Baghdad Bob would say), it was triple excellent. Great skewering.

[Jarhead_22]

Is there anyone who has been at any event covered by the press and upon reading about it or watching it afterwards, did not come away wondering what event the press was covering??

A few friends and I counterprotested a Million Mom March kumbaya-fest in downtown Dallas a couple of years ago, and found far short of the million moms in attendance. By my count there were no more than 65 of the bliss ninnies on hand, yet on the NPR "news" broadcast the next day, I was informed that "hundreds" had turned out.

Imagine my surprise.

When I called KERA, the local NPR outlet, I was told that they do not allow rebuttal of "news" pieces.

[rvoitier]

! K A B O O M !

Thanks, good article.