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?
Even the nuts are laughing at the squirrel!
It was a pleasure to serve under President Reagan. He made sure his troops wanted for no equipment.
Thanks, and while we remember our Fallen, today, say a prayer for those still serving. :-)
Thanks RG, appreciate that. I hope it is inspired from God.
Pray for our Troops
Not Reagan, but “his policies.” It’s a distinction without a difference.
Lefty slime gotta slime! If that’s the worst he can say about Ronnie, then good on Ronnie.
Hildebeest would have a shot at winning because she has the ugly vote locked up. The uglies are taking over the place!
"Made public" by whom?
Makes sense. Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus which allowed citizens to be held indefinitely without charge.
You’re not one of the few. You’re more like one of the 97%. The others just don’t post, have left FR, or are now posting elsewhere, hoping that FR will stop being a campaign site for Soetoro. There are still primaries, but once those are over and IF Romney is the nominee, and FR prefers Soetoro to Romney, time to move on because I’m ABO.
Also, the sentiments reflected on FR are not the sentiments elsewhere. I know. I’ve been spending my time elsewhere. Granted many conservatives are not thrilled with Romney, neither am I but they realize the alternative. I really don’t care to have to worry that people like Eric Holder will end up on the Supreme Court.
The alernative media, that’s who. It is far more widespread and attended to today then it was when Clinton was in office.
If you don’t think the Clinton scandals, despite being minimized and unreported mostly did not have a bearing on Gore losing to Bush in 2000, then you live in an alternate reality.
“It means we have POS Milquetoast candidate”
That’s why we need to take the Senate and hold the House. At that point Conservatives can determine what Mitts agenda will be, not the other way around.
The alernative media, that’s who. It is far more widespread and attended to today then it was when Clinton was in office.
If you don’t think the Clinton scandals, despite being minimized and unreported mostly did not have a bearing on Gore losing to Bush in 2000, then you live in an alternate reality.
Funny, I don’t find this comment by the Won anymore laughable than other mutable Obama moments that have been aired on the evening news over the past few years.
The MSM still controls public discussion. That's why we have Romney.
If you don’t think the Clinton scandals, despite being minimized and unreported mostly did not have a bearing on Gore losing to Bush in 2000, then you live in an alternate reality.
I live in an alternate reality in which I am capable of writing a coherent sentence.
That Hillary did not inherit Bubba's sordid mantle is confirmed with the ease with which she won in New York. In fact, she has retained the public impression of her as Bubba's victim, all reality to the contrary. Consider how her pack of lies re her 'landing under fire' didn't change public perception, or her many vignettes as a beyond-borderline violent shrew. Now consider how easily Commander Zero got away with never being confronted with his history, much less the string of whoppers that trail his lips. The 'alternative media' has failed to dig up the material and failed promulgate what material they had.
No. Alternative media may cost her, but it won't be enough.
Bob Schieffer?
This old lefty is 75 years old.
Why doesn’t this “one percenter” retire and allow SeeBS to hire a couple of highly indebted Occupy journalism grads for a job?
Is this better, oh chief of the language police? I live in an alternate reality in which I am capable of writing a coherent sentence. You are also live in a reality where you are capable of being a first class a**hole. Anyone ever tell you that?
As far as I know, Reagan never took credit for causing the collapse of The Soviet Union.
He did predict it, but he never patted himself on the back for bringing it about.
Urkel is a clown and even the bulbous rubber noses and grotesquely giant shoes that make up the lamestream media are laughing at him.
That is all he has, this perception game of “look at me” and “let me not look at them”, acknowledging no one, and not even a single piece of innocent human life.
This man is founded in pure hatred of all things and a paper scheme.
This is communism for you: the “star ideology” has a cult of its own strange beastly robotic personality completely oxymoroning the ends.
The counter to the counter-revolution is the catch 22 disclaimer to the effect that there is an end to the means of communism.
Nope, it’s constant Bagdad Bob stuck on stupid ridiculous paper hypnotics campaigning.
It’s not politics, it’s total surrender and narcissism.
That we have allowed such crazies to enter society as normal people capable of leading and protecting government looks is the most ridiculous thing, because such people and entities invariably implode much more quickly and permanently than the society they seek to corrupt and implode themselves.
MAny will have to pay for this in the form of some kind of Darwinian messianic baiting mass suicide.
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