A 60 Minutes Miracle (Pickering)

The American Spectator ^ | 3/29/2004 | Paul Beston

[SquirrelKing]

Saw this too. Could'nt believe my eyes and ears. The Dems have done this guy so wrong.

Fun to watch Mr. Evers ream out the NAACP head on TV. Ow.

[nuconvert]

Thanks for the article. I didn't watch.

"Intimidating"...LOL. Is THAT the new standard? You better not seem intimidating or we'll vote you down? LOL.

[dirtboy]

I saw it as well. The old-school civil rights man Evers mopped the floor with the new-school race pimp.

[hoosiermama]

Evers was fantantic! That part alone should be played again and again. Schumer really looked incompetant.
I loved his repeated "I know that for a fact attitude."

[dirtboy]

At times, Wallace almost seemed indignant himself at the treatment the judge had received.

I felt that too. Wallace's segment really made Pickering's critics look like fools.

[Oldsailor]

This is a great post. I watched that segment as well and all the way through I was wondering when the other shoe would drop as so many times is true of 60 minutes. But wonder of wonder it never did drop and in fact I was left with a good feeling for 60 min......now that is something after watching the phoney BS they did on Richard Clarke.

[wildbill]

In the light of their dwindling share of viewere, you don't think that CBS and the other national media might be having second thoughts about omitting the conservative side of things, do you?

[stylin_geek]

I was enraged when Morely Safer? said that one judicial nominee had been held up by the Democrats. He made it sound like Judge Pickering was the only one being held up. Now, after reading this, I wish I had kept watching the show.

[rustbucket]

I do marvel at the equanimity and grace so many white Southerners are able to maintain even after 40 years of lecturing from New Yorkers like Charles Schumer.

Its been going on for more than 40 years. Texas Senator Louis Wigfall in 1861:

That the people of the North shall consider themselves as more blessed than we, more civilized, and happier, is not a matter at which we would complain at all, if they would only content themselves with believing that to be the fact; but when they come and attempt to propagandize, and insist that we shall be as perfect as they imagine themselves to be, then it is that their good opinion of themselves becomes offensive to us. Let my neighbor believe that his wife is an angel and his children cherubs, I care not, though I may know he is mistaken; but when he comes impertinently poking his nose into my door every morning, and telling me that my wife is a shrew and my children brats, then the neighborhood becomes uncomfortable, and if I cannot remove him, I will remove myself; and if he says to me, "you shall not move, but you shall stay here, and you shall, day after day, hear the demerits of your wife and children discussed," then I begin to feel a little restive, and possibly might assert that great original right of pursuing whatever may conduce to my happiness, though it might be kicking him out of my door. If New England would only be content with the blessings which she imagines she has, we would not disturb her in her happiness.

[Timocrat]

Saw this as I was passing thru DFW. Schumer looked really slimey. What is wrong with New Yorkers who keep electing people like Schmucker and Hilary?

[Columbine]

Thanks for the report.

I didn't see this because I turned 60 Minutes off after the Ed Bradley hit job on Condi.

I normally never watch the show and I didn't realize just how old Bradley has gotten. But his liberal, commie persona is still the same.

[blackdog]

Simply, the War of Northern Aggression has morphed into congress and the judiciary. Southern politicians are dangerous due to their manners and morals. The southern charm of Bubba got Clinton elected. They caught the first thing making smoke to the north in order to settle down their masters in power. In order to maintain their death grip on influence, they've returned to Arkansas for fund raising purposes and won't even spend the night there. Southern judges are somewhat less progressive and rule in cases based on law and judicial fairness.

Ashcroft, Bush(Jeb too), Hutchinson, Clarence Thomas, Zell Miller, and the like are southerners. They represent a culture war taking place between the north and south being fought in congress. The old guard is feeling the heat.

Southern influence is a dangerous thing in the minds of Schumer, Kennedy, Hillary, Corzine, Lautenberg, Rendell, Kerry, Sanders, Frank, Daley, Boxer, et,al.

[blackdog]

I'm still waiting for the residents of Massachussets to explain their complete inability to vote in a manner indicating human intelligence was a factor in their process of flipping a lever in the voting booth for decades now.

The cancer has spread to New York. Say what you will about Moynihan, but the man was OK in my book. Hillary took over his footprint like cancerous cells on speed. She and Schumer think they are summ'in special...........

[nothingnew]

I saw it and my jaw hit the floor. "Wallace did is doing this interview???" I haven't watched 60 in years, but I'm staying with my brother on the east coast, and he had it on. I was amazed.

FMCDH

[Tribune7]

ping

[Liberty Valance]

Schumer came off looking like the narrow minded left wing bigot and race baiter that he is. I couldn't believe 60 Minutes actually let this piece see the light of day. Like Rush says...we have much to be optimistic about. Cracks are forming in the left and the dam will break.

We are winning!

[Dante3]

Too bad I missed it.

[ChewedGum]

Is there a transcript available?

Gum

[mhking]

From my blog this morning:

60 Minutes looks objectively (?!) at Pickering

CBS' 60 Minutes, fresh off their drubbing of Condoleezza Rice, presented a more flattering look at Mississippi Judge (and Bush recess appointment to the federal bench) Charles Pickering.

Pickering was vilified by Democrats in the Senate -- most notably (and led by) NY Senator Chuck Schumer. Schumer claimed that Pickering's record on civil rights weren't "right for America."

Never mind that Pickering is lauded by most blacks in his native Mississippi; for example by people like black lawyer Deborah Gambrell.

"We've had debates over everything from Clarence Thomas to the details of some case," Gambrell said. "Judge Pickering is a conservative, but he wants to hear your opinion. And he's amenable to having his mind changed, too."

Gambrell sees no racial bias in the judge. On the contrary, she said, he appoints motivated lawyers such as her to represent workers -- many of them black -- who claim they were wronged by employers. "He loves the law and wants you to represent your client well," Gambrell said, "and I don't think that's discriminatory."

Of course, it was fun watching the NAACP representative getting reamed out by Charles Evers on national television.

I didn't know CBS had it in 'em!