Posted on 05/27/2012 5:28:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
CBS's Bob Schieffer certainly wasn't in an Obama-loving mood Sunday.
CBS's Bob Schieffer certainly wasn't in an Obama-loving mood Sunday.
Having asked the President's senior campaign adviser "Whatever happened to hope and change" early in the program, the Face the Nation host in a subsequent segment laughed out loud after playing a clip of Obama bragging about his accomplishments on 60 Minutes last year (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: I want to play a little something for you. I think one of the lessons that probably all of us recognize is that if you-- I've wrote a book once about Ronald Reagan it came out the month that he was-- that George Bush was inaugurated. The book, I-- I think, everything in the book is accurate, but it is not entirely true, because we didn't know at that time that the Soviet Union was going to fall in. I don't give credit-- Reagan credit, total credit for that but certainly his policies had a part in it. I think you really run a risk when you start trying to judge a presidency--
MICHAEL DUFFY, TIME MAGAZINE: Too soon.
BOB SCHIEFFER: --too soon. I want to run this. This is what Barack Obama last December told Steve Kroft of 60 MINUTES. I want to get your reaction to it.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any President, with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR and Lincoln, but, you know, just in terms of what we've got and done in modern history.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BOB SCHIEFFER: So [laughs] as incumbent Presidents often do they give themselves good reviews. Can anyone say even in the middle of a presidency this is going to be a successful or an unsuccessful presidency?
Yeah, there were plenty of Americans who thought this was pretty funny when it first aired last December.
What wasn't funny was how the clip Schieffer played Sunday wasn't included in the actual 60 Minutes broadcast.
As NewsBusters reported at the time, Obama's boastful remarks were only available at the CBS website.
Maybe it's because a lot of people at CBS besides Schieffer thought they were too hysterical to share with the television public.
Given Schieffer's on-air reaction almost six months later, can you blame them?
What can it mean when the hardcore lefties at CBS abandon Hussein?
We have to hammer the ignorant, megalomanic, delusional poseur relentlessly!
beautiful!
For over two years, now, I refuse to listen or watch him for any reason, at any time. If, however, he was resigning on national TV I might reconsider.
I haven’t watched any of the ABC channels for years.
I always make sure I have my remote in reaching distance
The Alinski crowd knows that ridicule is one of their most powerful weapons.
We need to do everything we can to laugh at Obama and to make video of others laughing at Obama go viral.
It may drive him over the edge...
Bob’s laughing....but we are all crying. They have made a mess of things for us all
It means that Hilary is coming.....
It means that the GOP-e presented a "safe: candidate to replace the"one" Believe me, if a main stream conservative had been nominated they would circle the wagons around Obama. It means we have POS Milquetoast candidate. Isn't that great.
Same here. It sickens me. I actually get nauseous. And he always looks down his nose at the audience. The ego of this guy is almost as big as Bill E-GO’reilly.
Perhaps FDR and LBJ two commies but Lincoln??
[ What can it mean when the hardcore lefties at CBS abandon Hussein? ]
That Republicans have nominated someone they find an acceptable alternative? Sad, but possibly true.
Oh gosh, me too! Can’t stand the sight of him or the sound of his voice. I even turn of talk radio when they are playing clips of him spewing his BS!
Sorry, but you need to watch the video again; Schieffer was clearly laughing at Obama. But hey, don't let this video or me get in the way of your pathetic, wet blanket attitude.
Let me guess, you're going to skip voting in this presidential election?
It makes absolutely no difference what the pundits or the media elites think of the One. His people have never even heard of those folks, and certainly would not watch them on TV.
Sometimes, even your own BS becomes so think that it makes you laugh.
” I haven’t watched any of the ABC channels for years.”
They are still on ?
Hope & Change in reality is Hype & Con.
Are enough voters blind to facts to return Obama to office and continue destroying what tens of millions have died to create, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?
Can a “Choom Gang” leader be elected as president?
I see old Bob went to the Dan Rather School of Broadcast Journalism.
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