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Bob Schieffer Says ‘Maybe’ Press Wasn’t Skeptical Enough Regarding Obama in ’08
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| 06/02/2015
| Stephen Kruiser
Posted on 06/02/2015 9:57:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ya don’t say.
He's retiring, so it's safe to speak ill of the Media Messiah.
CBS Bob Schieffer says that perhaps reporters in the media were not skeptical enough of President Barack Obama as a presidential candidate in 2008, telling Fox News Howard Kurtz that the whole political world was struck by the sudden rise of the senator from Illinois.
This isn’t some revelation that Schieffer just had. It’s certainly been kicking around in the heads of veteran media types since early ’09 when it became rather apparent that Barack Obama was more of a bumbler than the suave, professorial wunderkind the MSM droolers made him out to be.
Schieffer is leaving his post on Face the Nation so he can now speak freely. He’s trying to retroactively give himself some journalistic credibility by pretending this idea is just now coming to him. If he really wants to act like a journalist on his way out the door he could be exhorting the MSM to be more skeptical of Mrs. Bill.
Soon.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; bias; bobschieffer; collusion; donatetodayplease; media; obama; obamawasntvetted; pravdamedia; searchandfind; skepticism; yesterday
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To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/02/2015 9:58:22 AM PDT
by
CGASMIA68
To: SeekAndFind
OMG...Well No $hit Dick Tracy...
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:00:51 AM PDT
by
areukiddingme1
(areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
To: Dalberg-Acton
Radio guy Chris Plante says something like “the most insidious power the press has is the power to ignore.”
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:02:37 AM PDT
by
jimfree
(In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
To: SeekAndFind; GeronL
And yet he wonders why the public is skeptical of the alphabet network news.
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:05:30 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
To: SeekAndFind
No Shite. Bob, you and your own this mess.
To: SeekAndFind
Sadly, he is 2,323 days too late to investigate. Since Obama’s first inauguration, he has spent in excess of 9 trillion dollars and made the USA and the world a much more dangerous and ungodly place. Obama owns the State of the World, but his minions still blame GWB for all the ills. We are a stupid planet at this point. Bob, I blame you and all your cohorts for not telling the truth about Obama before the State of the World got so far into this mess. AND for destroying anyone on the Republican side who might have saved us. GROW UP AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL THAT THE COMPLIANT MEDIA HAS WROUGHT!
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:06:35 AM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:07:12 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: SeekAndFind
We got Obama past you - suckers...
We got Obama re-elected - suckers...
We’ll get Hillary eledcted too - suckers...
What Difference Does It Make?
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:13:04 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: areukiddingme1
THIS is why the press is dying...
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:13:46 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(If the MSM stops lying about conservatives, we'll stop telling the truth about them.)
To: SeekAndFind
Bob Schieffer Says Maybe Press Wasnt Skeptical Enough Regarding Obama in 08 And here Bob Schieffer demonstrates the depths of his dishonesty by making this brazenly self-serving lie. And he wonders why no one trusts the spew that comes out of his lying mouth.
By making this statement Schieffer is rewriting history to musing that maybe the corrupt MSM simply may not have been skeptical of Obama in 2008. What rubbish.
Everybody who was alive in this country during this election knew that the election pivoted on who Barak Obama was and who he wasn't. Every group outside of the fascist media and the DNC labored day and night to expose the real Obama, and the corrupt Bob Schieffer MSM wanted absolutely nothing to do with this information.
In fact, Schieffer and his corrupt MSM brethren did everything in their power to suppress information about Obama and to protect any damaging information to him from sticking.
That Schieffer now muses about the level of critical review of Obama is a deliberate and outright, bald-faced lie designed to misrepresent and rewrite actual history. That Schieffer and his buddies so easily try to deploy such a deceptive misdirection is telling in and of itself.
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:15:09 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(This is Bravo-6, we have Zips in the wire! I repeat, Zips in the wire.)
To: SeekAndFind
Thanks for nothing Bob and CBS.
As we’ve wrung our hands over here, 2008 was somewhat understandable as a “we can’t have business as usual” election.
However, 2012 blew our minds. Poor economy, low consumer confidence, declining middle class income, fear of Obamacare; and he is still re-elected.
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:15:47 AM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:29:39 AM PDT
by
high info voter
(Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
To: SeekAndFind
Thanks Bob..... don’t ever equate yourself with “journalism!”..... cuz you’re a failure like Obama!
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:31:12 AM PDT
by
high info voter
(Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
To: SeekAndFind
skeptical enough back then?
hell, they still aren’t using his LEGAL name... barry soetoro
(it was changed when he was adopted... and he’s never filed to have it changed back)
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:31:35 AM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:33:32 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(free short story: http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/05/free-short-story-proper-care-feeding-of.html)
To: SeekAndFind
LOL! Bob’s gonna be a comedian now? LOL!
Hey, Bob... what’s Barry’s mom’s first name? Who did his father hate? Who did his Hawaiin grandpa drink with? What’s the tie between Columbia U and The Frankfurt School? Hey, Bob... your zippers’s open.
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:44:32 AM PDT
by
polymuser
( Enough is enough)
To: SeekAndFind
Bob Schieffer.....what a dumbass.
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:46:13 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: SeekAndFind
They were plenty skeptical of Democrat’s opponents. And, even helped Obama in the debates by feeding him answers.
Thats why tail wagging liberal lackeys like George Stephanopolis should recuse himself from all Presidential campaign coverage.
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posted on
06/02/2015 10:55:27 AM PDT
by
Sasparilla
(If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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