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'Dumbstruck' Schieffer Says Gruber Should Repay $400K Obamacare Lucre
November 16th, 2014 6:03 PM
Had a conservative suggested this, liberals would denounce it as ironclad evidence of racism. When it emanates instead from CBS News, the problem being cited has gotten too big to ignore.
Longtime CBS reporter and anchor Bob Schieffer has become the latest high-profile media figure to denounce top Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's candid insights into Obamacare sausage-making. While…

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Saturday Night Funny Video: Bob Schieffer with Barack Obama
November 16th, 2014 12:27 AM
Bret Baier ended Tuesday’s Special Report on FNC with how producers for CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman re-imagined an answer President Obama gave to Bob Schieffer during last Sunday’s Face the Nation.

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Flashback: Reagan on Calling Someone a ‘Lying Son of a Bitch’
November 10th, 2014 2:03 AM
As part of Face the Nation’s 60th anniversary program on Sunday, the CBS newscast played clips of interviews with current, future and past Presidents – including Ronald Reagan in 1970 being asked by CBS News correspondent Bill Stout about calling a state official a “lying son of a bitch.” Watch the video to hear how Reagan, then the Governor of California, responded with an answer which earned…

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CBS’s Schieffer Empathizes with Obama: ‘Ever Going to Get a Break?’
November 9th, 2014 2:51 PM
In his pre-recorded Face the Nation sit-down with President Barack Obama, CBS’s Bob Schieffer asked about putting more troops into Iraq, fighting ISIS, giving Congress a chance to act first on immigration and whether Democratic election losses were his fault, but he also devoted several questions to empathizing with Obama, as if Obama were a victim of circumstance and not responsible for failures…

Bob Schieffer's Faulty Memory On Assaulting Ollie North As a Liar
November 7th, 2014 8:54 AM
CBS Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer granted The Hollywood Reporter an interview to mark the 60th anniversary of that program. Asked about retiring, Schieffer said at 77, he doesn’t think about it: “My wife keeps an eye on me. She says, ‘When you start drooling, then it will be time to go.’”
But Schieffer has clearly forgotten the content of his program-length attack on conservative Oliver…

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Bob Schieffer Complains That Money In Politics ‘Shames Us All’
November 2nd, 2014 1:17 PM
On Sunday, Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer followed in NBC host Chuck Todd’s footstepsby predictably dragging up the tired liberal line that money is destroying American politics. The CBS host complained that “the right to vote is our proudest possession, but the way it has become debased by money shames us all.”

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‘Big Three’ Ignore Hillary Arguing Businesses Don’t Create Jobs
October 26th, 2014 12:16 PM
During a campaign rally for Martha Coakley, Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made some controversial comments about private businesses not being job creators. Speaking on Friday, Clinton told a Democratic audience to ignore people who say “corporations and businesses create jobs.” Despite the potential 2016 presidential candidate…
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Nets All But Ignore Wendy Davis 'Wheelchair Ad' Attacking Greg Abbott
October 14th, 2014 5:46 PM
On Friday afternoon, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis and her campaign released a new ad that took aim at her Republican opponent Greg Abbott as a “hypocrite” for supposedly not caring about the disabled after becoming a paraplegic in 1984.
Since the despicable ad aired, only one story has been offered on the morning or evening newscasts of the major broadcast networks…

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Susan Page: 'Government Is Not Competent' To Handle ISIS and Ebola
October 13th, 2014 12:57 PM
Susan Page, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief, appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation and had a surprisingly blunt take on how the public views the federal government. Speaking to moderator Bob Schieffer, Page maintained that “the Ebola virus and the threat from ISIS are feeding into a sense that a lot of Americans have that the world is not only a dangerous place but that the government is not…

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Fox News ‘Would Have Loved’ to Show FDR at ‘His Most Helpless’
September 15th, 2014 12:29 AM
The potshot of the weekend illustrates the visceral disgust in academia toward the Fox News Channel. If Franklin Roosevelt were a candidate or President today, FNC “would have loved” to show video of him “at his most helpless” – such as when he was carried or forced to have others attach and remove his leg braces.

Schieffer Undermines Obama Campaign Talking Point He Advanced
September 12th, 2014 9:01 AM
CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Thursday night used the 9/11 anniversary as a chance to chastise Presidents Bush and Obama for making declarations that the war on terrorism had been won, but two and a half years ago Schieffer himself championed the Obama administration’s campaign boast.

CBS Host Schieffer Wonders How Sens. McCain and Graham Deal With GOP D
July 6th, 2014 2:56 PM
CBS Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer attempted to create controversy within the Republican Party over the subject of immigration reform during a joint interview with Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) on Sunday, July 6.
Schieffer lamented that an immigration bill hadn’t passed Congress and asked his Republican guests “how do you feel about being members of a body…

CBS Host Bob Schieffer Frets: How Does GOP Prevent Another Goldwater
June 15th, 2014 2:44 PM
CBS’s Bob Schieffer did his best to play up the supposed divide that exists within the Republican Party following the primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA).
During an interview on Sunday, June 15 with Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, the Face the Nation host wondered “Goldwater lost the [1964] election in a historic landslide. How do you…

Peggy Noonan on Release of Bowe Bergdahl: ‘I Would Be Sleeping Bette
June 8th, 2014 12:22 PM
Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan had some tough words for the Obama Administration following its decision to release five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, June 8, Noonan argued “I would be sleeping better if I had a sense that the administration had a real plan as opposed to a desperate dumping.” […