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'Trump is a racist': Bob Schieffer attacks The Apprentice host... as liberals desert reality show
The Daily Mail. UK ^ | April 29, 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 04/29/2011 3:07:37 AM PDT by Scanian

A senior CBS news anchor today labelled Donald Trump's campaign to raise doubts about President Obama's school grades as an 'ugly strain of racism'. Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer made the comments in the wake of Mr Trump's calls yesterday for Mr Obama to release college transcripts 'proving' he had the grades to enter Columbia and Harvard. The attack came as new research suggested viewers for Celebrity Apprentice - some of the most liberal for any TV show - were deserting the program due to Mr Trump's outspoken rants against Mr Obama.

The furore came soon after the President released his full birth certificate - finally putting the question of his citizenship beyond reasonable doubt. Yesterday Mr Trump called on the President to release his college transcripts.

Reacting to the call, Mr Schieffer said: 'That's just code for saying he got into law school because he's black. 'This is an ugly strain of racism that's running through this whole thing.' Earlier in the day Mr Trump had hinted that the President did not earn the grades at his first college Occidental to allow him to enter the two prestigious Ivy league schools. He said: 'I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard.

'We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our President.' In a separate interview given moments after Mr Obama released the birth certificate, Trump said: 'I'd like to know how does he get into Harvard, how does he get into Columbia if he isn't a very good student. 'If he wants to release it that's fine,if he doesn't want to release it that's fine too. But the word is he wasn't a very good student.'

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; cbsnews; eligibility; facethenation; schieffer; trump
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To: Scanian
Funny, Trump wasn't considered a racist until he confronted 'He who is not to be confronted'.
41 posted on 04/29/2011 5:20:12 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Doc Savage

Since we live on exactly opposite ends of the states in geography and since my background parallels yours, I will gladly run with you!

Vince in Northern Florida


42 posted on 04/29/2011 5:20:38 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Venturer
He has to get on OUR plane and fly off to be a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

So.... did Oprah give each audience member a CITY of their own as a prize? I mean, it was a very special show, and a very special audience, don't you think?

Heck, they got cars once, and who was the guest then?

43 posted on 04/29/2011 5:23:56 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I agree. Scratch a lot of liberals, and you will undoubtedly find a racist not far below the surface. Why else spend so much time and effort being concerned with skin color?

If living one's life judging others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character is racist, fine, I'll join Dr. King on that bench.

By the way, if you are interested in reading a book by and about a black man who has refused to be pigeonholed by his race and about the evolution of his world view, A Personal Odyssey by Dr. Sowell is a good read (anything he wrote is a good read IMHO).

As for Donald Trump, I'm not a huge fan but do I believe he is racist? Please!

Just as race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. are not grounds for discrimination, neither are they automatic grounds for sainthood, and should not be a magic shield for any individual to hide behind. If you are unwilling for everything there is to be known about you to be revealed, then stay out of public life.

44 posted on 04/29/2011 5:25:57 AM PDT by susannah59
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To: RC one
Saw this Clown give the Commencement speech at the Citadel last year. Of course he played himself as the Down Country Homeboy from humble beginnings, I wasn't fooled.
45 posted on 04/29/2011 5:29:51 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Scanian

Bob Schieffer is 100% correct. Affirmative Action IS an ugly strain of racism...


46 posted on 04/29/2011 5:29:58 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Scanian
Schieffer has been a Democrat apologist for decades.
47 posted on 04/29/2011 5:33:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: Scanian

Frankly, I didn’t know Bob Schieffer was still alive. So he is, but why the hell should anyone care what he says or thinks?


48 posted on 04/29/2011 5:34:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Scanian

Schieffer is a liberal hack and an incontinent old fool.


49 posted on 04/29/2011 5:35:13 AM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: Mouton; Doc Savage

Well, you guys can have MY vote in 2012 over Obama/Biden, and I do not even know who you are...


50 posted on 04/29/2011 5:35:23 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: jimfree
So now it’s not just Cokie Roberts that’s a whore. Bob Shieffer joins her.

Man, prostitution just ain't what it used to be!

51 posted on 04/29/2011 5:36:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Scanian

Hiding behind their skin color to escape responsibility cheapens a person as does using skin color to defend a person.


52 posted on 04/29/2011 5:37:55 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

BTTT!!!!!


53 posted on 04/29/2011 5:46:50 AM PDT by ExTxMarine ("Convictions are more dangerous to truth than lies." ~ F. Nietzsche)
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To: CynicalBear
Racist , I think your talking about Cokie Roberts whose mother took her husband seat.

You think Cokie as a child of power didn't receive many benefits because of her father Congressman Boggs.

Her brother is one of the largest lobbyist in DC.

K Street’s biggest firm on Thursday acquired one of Washington’s fastest-growing lobbying shops. Patton Boggs, the perennial lobbying powerhouse, acquired Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, the firm started in 2008 by former Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) and ex-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.).

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/106811-patton-boggs-buys-lobbying-firm-of-former-sens-lott-and-breaux

54 posted on 04/29/2011 5:47:57 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: Scanian

Bob Schiefer is a racist.

Pray for America


55 posted on 04/29/2011 5:53:08 AM PDT by bray (The Country Club can hold THEIR noses this election)
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To: Rummyfan

He’s “alive” like Larry King is still “alive.”


56 posted on 04/29/2011 5:54:03 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: FrankR

I would respectfully submit that “lies like a rug” might work better than “fold like a suit” in this case.


57 posted on 04/29/2011 5:56:29 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: scooby321
>> Racist , I think your talking about Cokie Roberts whose mother took her husband seat. You think Cokie as a child of power didn't receive many benefits because of her father Congressman Boggs.<<

I have no idea what that rant in response to my post means. I was talking about all the accusations of racism that are being thrown around lately. If they don’t want to or can’t defend a person they claim racism to shut someone down who questions a person of color.

58 posted on 04/29/2011 5:57:06 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Remember, these are very special, sensitive, and morally and intellectually superior people we are talking about.

Such superior forms of life are entitled to a few eccentricities. /s


59 posted on 04/29/2011 5:58:26 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

He “folded” on his resistance to revealing the document, the COLB has been an understood lie from the beginning...


60 posted on 04/29/2011 5:59:13 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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