Posted on 05/16/2013 10:43:41 PM PDT by neverdem
CHARLIE ROSE: You have seen lots of second terms. This one came in on a big political victory, wanting to do things. And you have this picture, one, of intrusive government and yet a president who seems like a bystander in his own government.
BOB SCHIEFFER: People were talking in Washington about -- some people were saying, "Are we back to the Nixon administration? This is what they did in the Nixon administration." This is not the Nixon administration, where you had burglars and people talking about blowing up the Brookings Institution. This is more of a case, is anybody home?
I mean, just all of a sudden you have this thing with the Justice Department where theyre getting all these phone records of all the reporters. The Attorney General, well he didnt know anything about it. You get to the IRS, they dont seem to know anything about the Tea Party thing. You come to White House, they dont know anything about Benghazi. Somebodys got to grab hold of this thing. Its very, very disturbing what were seeing here.
NORAH ODONNELL: What do you make of the presidents actions yesterday? He dealt with all three things yesterday: He fired the head of the IRS. Released 100 pages of emails that deal with Benghazi. And then on the third scandal the snooping into the AP reporters phone records, the president then put out that hes for this shield law for journalists. The White House took a lot of proactive action yesterday.
SCHIEFFER: They did. But that was yesterday. How is it these things all nobody seemed to be taking very seriously up until this point? There is no question though, that the administration was trying to get the story out that the War on Terrorism, the threat of terrorism...
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Duhhh.....listen to these incompetent, hypocritical, so called intellectual pundits, who are aghast at Obama scandals. We knew it would happen before the thug was elected.
djf, everybody KNOWS that Sandra Fluke needs condoms!! Lots and lots of them. The problem is that the president wants you to pay for them.
Two Russians landed in a gulag in the 1930's. They looked around and one said to the other, "If only Stalin knew about this, he would put a stop to it." The other nodded in agreement.
True believers are just that. Let us hope that the rot is so pervasive that the good guys can keep rolling up the bad guys until they get to the guy at the top.
we can hope.
LLS
70% of Americans probably think Nixon was the one who freed the slaves. Lincoln was the vampire hunter.
Don’t worry Bob. We’ll wake you up when the revolution’s over.
The fawning media must NOW ask the questions they should have asked THEN---when Ohaha first surfaced as a candidate.
Who is this guy in the White House?
Remember that O's PR person----Anita "Mao" Dunn---said AFTER the 2008 election that the O Team "allowed" the media to know only what THEY wanted them to know. No probing questions and interviews were allowed.
Hillary and Bill had pics of Obama in Muslim garb--but Teddy Kennedy warned them not to use them.
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THIS WE KNOW The Obamanations are a tight-knit clique of socialists/communists/unions/progs/liberals----they see themselves as superior---bound together by "enlightened" values reason, tolerance, diversity and equality. The rest of us are unworthy and are to be suppressed and marginalized.......using any means possible.
The Ohaha savages duped the citizenry, led us over a multi-trillion dollar deficit cliff, into massive corrupt bailouts, and atrocities like amnesty and Obamacare. Their motto: "Everything For Us-- Nothing For You."
In the wake of Benghazi, the IRS abuses, etc, we are reminded that the Obamanoids are ruthless predators w/ no empathy for others and no remorse; anti-social psychopaths who recognize no moral boundaries--aggressively going after what they want, irregardless of the consequences to others.
This must be very hard to take for a schmuck like ole Bob. He thought we listened to him and believed what he and his pals said - poor Bob he only fooled himself and the lowlifes who vote Democrat to get “goodies.”
I think youd get better analysis from five guys down at the local barbershop, than with Bob Schieffer.
ANY guy at the local barbershop! No one’s memory is more selective than Schieffer’s. “[T]alking about blowing up the Brookings Institution . . .”? Schieffer conveniently forgets that Nixon’s enemies-list included communist sympathizers, “anti-war” critics (in quotes because anti-war meant anti-American. Fonda et al. were fine with supporting the wars waged by America’s enemies), terrorists (Black Panthers, Weather Underground) who went beyond “talking about” blowing up buildings and people! Nixon’s list was nothing more, nothing broader, than what a bipartisan House UnAmerican Activities Committee would have produced. Except, of course, that the dems had just torpedoed that committee!
Schieffer also gave air time to every single “peace” group returning from North Vietnam, advising POW relatives to take advantage of the groups’ services in delivering mail to and from the prisoners. Again forgetting that the Geneva Conventions demanded free mail-flow and that every peace-group visit furthered communist propaganda.
I’d say he was a tool; but even that overstates his role as a “journalist.”
The mainstream press is dying...
If the press had been the propaganda arm of the Nixon Administration they would have died years ago... Their numbers are horrible - no one trusts them. Used car salesmen are considered more trustworthy.
Yeah, and Nixon was just a 'bystander' too...yeah, right.
Charlie Rose needs to leave his liberal bubble a few minutes every year or two. He's coming across as a fool.
Reading between the lines, Obama is still his god, his cult leader. He is more rueful, more disappointed, more crestfallen than he is outraged and worried for his country.
Folks, all this blather from the media ostensibly criticising Obama is done MORE IN SORROW THAN IN ANGER. These scandals are terrible blows because they're difficult to contain....especially the IRS one. But the media will soon be back on its feet again....and will be in full Obama protective mode in short order.
The leftist media is what it is, it hasn't changed, it won't change....and it will still blindly have his back.
We also had a lot more integrity in the press, which today compares someone talking about using the IRS as a weapon to someone who actually was using the IRS as a weapon.
Schieffer would believe it - so would Charlie Rose.
lol. bump
The NY Times would accuse Obama’s critics on the matter of blowing it out of proportion for political reasons.
Jay Carney will say on MSNBC “There is no scandal here”
Looks to me like he said the President is not evil like Nixon, he’s just incompetent and stupid. It’s the radicals around him who are the evil ones and he has to get a handle on them.
The nut of the problem, eh?
It's amazing, really...
My sis, the social worker, a gentle soul, indeed. But a liberal, thru and thru.
She is convinced that she knows best how to run everybody else's life. Most especially those of rich people -- whose wealth is gained unfairly -- and conservatives, who are naturally inclined to be uncaring brutes.
All this save for her clients, of course, for whom she is filled with compassion and care. She doesn't expect them to change their slovenly ways -- because she needs them to need her to care for them in some way.
She can't bear independence in others...and strives to make us all dependent on her and her sort. Liberalism IS a mental disease.
Your memory is good: Thompson gave Baker that question to ask.
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