Hog House Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Denise Ross The growing rift in the Republican Party, highlighted by yesterday’s House election in New York’s District 23, reminds CBS’s Bob Schieffer of the Democrats in 1972 and the presidential defeat of South Dakota’s own George McGovern. Here’s video from Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, with Schieffer’s comments specific to McGovern transcribed...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
CBS's Bob Schieffer on Wednesday night offered the hindsight that everyone knew the Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey would lose, they did lose and so the losses mean nothing. “I think what we saw last night were snap shots. I don't think we saw predictors,” Schieffer declared on the CBS Evening News in absolving President Obama of any culpability....
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Shortly before the polls closed, CBS's chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, rejected any effort to tie President Barack Obama to two the Democratic gubernatorial candidates for whom Obama campaigned, i nsisting on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the contests were more about local issues and so “I don't think they had much to do with anything but New Jersey and Virginia.”...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Yeah, Joe Lieberman is a wanker . But consider the forum given to him yesterday to keep on lying about healthcare reform. If Schieffer had bothered to challenge Lieberman on the blizzard of misinformation he spewed out in those few minutes, he would have exposed the hollowness of Lieberman’s arguments. But as is usually the case, all the questions he asked were about the politics of reform....
PAXALLES (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
"Face The Nation" on November 1st with Bob Schieffer featured Obama adviser David Axelrod and Senator Joe Lieberman. Schieffer challenged Axelrod when he said that Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah's dropping out of the election run-off would make no difference...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Rush Limbaugh's tough criticisms of President Barack Obama on Fox News Sunday “broke” the White House's truce with Fox News, Bob Schieffer suggested during an interview with Obama's Senior Adviser, David Axelrod, on Face the Nation . After playing a clip of Limbaugh dismissing as “a photo-op” Obama's trip to Dover Air Force Base to witness returning casualties from Afghanistan...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... the mishap “ Obama’s Katrina .” Today in an interview with Axelrod on CBS’ Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer advanced that view: SCHIEFFER: What do you do to correct this kind of thing? You’re told one thing, you’d have so much and you didn’t. These are the kinds of things we heard after Katrina during a previous administration . NPR’s Juan Williams noted the huge distinction between...
The Caucus (Free subscription) | yesterday
The midterm elections of 2010 are about a year away, but the guests on this Sunday's talk shows will try to gauge what's in store for Democrats and Republicans.
Health Pages (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul" Deepak Chopra aims to alter our misconceptions about what the human body can and cannot do. Chopra spoke with Bob Schieffer about his latest book.
Suburban Guerrilla (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Who didn’t see this orgy of media “analysis” coming? According to the media, anything at all that happens is good news for Republicans, as Atrios says. You know how crazy it is when Bob Schieffer’s making sense. But the question is, why are Democrats such wankers? Really. We just gained two more proudly progressive seats in [...]
Health Pages (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Bob Schieffer spoke with Deepak Chopra about his new book, "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul" and got his thoughts on health care reform. Plus; Republican and Democratic Strategists Kevin Madden and Joe Trippi weigh in on Tuesday's elections.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Who didn't see this orgy of media "analysis" coming? According to the media, anything at all that happens is good news for Republicans, as Atrios says. You know how crazy it is when Bob Schieffer's making sense. But the question is, why are Democrats such wankers ? Really. We just gained two more proudly progressive seats in Congress (one of them replacing a Blue Dog), but instead...
jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... Gibbs last week. Axelrod had coffee with Fox News chief Roger Ailes in September. Axelrod told Bob Schieffer on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday that the White House isn't "at war with anyone." "We're at war only with people who represent mistruths as truth," he said. "And that's true of any network whether it's Fox , CBS , or any other network. When errors of fact are...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
While analyzing the off-year elections across the country on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith asked Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer about the New York 23rd congressional race: “...this notion that an insurgent conservative, orthodox conservative, would come in and really unseat the party’s choice for nominee there ...is this a precursor of what might be happening...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... the Senate health care bill if the bill includes a public option. On Sunday, Lieberman told CBS's Bob Schieffer that he would prefer to do "nothing" than to pass a public health care option, which he says would raise the budget deficit and increase health care costs. Lieberman's vote is crucial because Democrats would need him on side to get the 60 votes they need to break a GOP filibuster....
