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Schieffer's Teary Goodbye
RMZ.com ^ | Sept. 1, 2006

Posted on 09/01/2006 12:32:39 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

With tears welling up in his eyes, Bob Schieffer finally concluded his 18-month tenure as anchor of the CBS Evening News with an emotional in-studio tribute.

Incoming anchor Katie Couric joined Schieffer at the end of Thursday night's broadcast in studio for a retrospective of his career, featuring a one-one-one pre-taped interview with the former Today Show host herself (perhaps to give viewers a sneak peek of the Katie to come?).

Schieffer's professionalism resuscitated the reputation of the CBS Evening News at a time when the legendary news organization was mired in scandal in the wake of a widely disputed report about President's Bush's service in the Texas National Guard. The tears came at the end of the pre-taped segment, when Schieffer acknowledged that he did not believe in anyone being self made, saying the he is the product of many people- his mother, his wife and his daughters most importantly.

A survivor of bladder cancer, Schieffer is not retiring and will return to CBS News in his previous capacity as the White House Reporter. Katie Couric makes her debut as anchor of the CBS News on September 5.


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To: COUNTrecount
Here's why he's crying:


21 posted on 09/01/2006 12:38:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: COUNTrecount

Schieffer seemed like a decent guy.


22 posted on 09/01/2006 12:38:50 PM PDT by P.O.E. (What separates humans from the animals - animals don't use recipes.)
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To: kinghorse

That's not quite true.

I remember many nights in which he pilloried the Bush Administration. You might want to take a look at some independent media sources on him.


23 posted on 09/01/2006 12:39:45 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: COUNTrecount

"Schieffer is not retiring and will return to CBS News in his previous capacity as the White House Reporter."



So what's the big deal?


24 posted on 09/01/2006 12:40:19 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Responsibility2nd

Walter Cronkite is supposed to introduce Katie Couric when she starts the job. Geez, he's at least 90 years old. Cronkite was at the anchor desk for 19 years. Dan Rather was at the anchor desk for 24 years. If we're having a "torch passing" ceremony, why wouldn't Dan Rather be there?

Cronkite is so old lotsa Generation X-ers and young people don't remember him. He retired as anchor in March 1981. So the torch passing idea will go over the heads of young people.


25 posted on 09/01/2006 12:41:05 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: gipper81

Yeah,it's a lot like Air America isn't it ???


26 posted on 09/01/2006 12:41:07 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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To: Larry Lucido
What's a "CBS Evening News"?

It was a duplicitous dinosaur of the genus, makeitupibus tofitouragendii that suffered a grievous head wound when the asteroid known as Fecal-Kinko hit the main ventilation device at a locale formerly known as Black-Rock-on-Tiffany.

27 posted on 09/01/2006 12:42:23 PM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: kinghorse
he wasn't half bad. he told the news without inflection or carefully crafted anti-administration phrases, imagine that.

Yeah, I've always thought Scheiffer was ok.
28 posted on 09/01/2006 12:43:52 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: COUNTrecount
He could have left unnoticed. No one of any sense watches CBS anymore.
29 posted on 09/01/2006 12:45:00 PM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Clearly they don't think their little gal can just sit down at the monitor and read the news without all this distracting bullship.

They've thinned her down, probably to match her lack of brainpower and gravitas. Promoted her and pretended she's going to be a force in the news!

30 posted on 09/01/2006 12:45:05 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: kinghorse

"he wasn't half bad. he told the news without inflection or carefully crafted anti-administration phrases, imagine that."

I agree. He was low-keyed, did not seem to try to sensationalize everything into some failure by the Bush administration. Seemed sincere, I like the bits about the troops.


31 posted on 09/01/2006 12:45:07 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Interesting that there's no mention of who was the driving force behing that "disputed" story about Bush and the National Guard. Gee, will we pretend that Dan Rather never existed????

Ja, comrade!


32 posted on 09/01/2006 12:45:55 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Peach

>>>Tears after an 18 month tenure? I swear, the men in the media must take female hormones.>>>

Journalists MUST give the impression that they actually care about anything. They try so hard to not be a shell, that it comes off as phony.

He's really crying because that sweet multi-million dollar deal went to Katie and he's back on the street reporting at the White House.


33 posted on 09/01/2006 12:46:00 PM PDT by sandbar
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To: COUNTrecount
There, fixed it for them:

...at a time when the legendary news organization was mired in scandal in the wake of a widely disputed thoroughly discredited, fabricated report about President's Bush's service in the Texas National Guard.

34 posted on 09/01/2006 12:46:21 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Larry Lucido
What's a "CBS Evening News"?

Viacom's SeeBS Evening News is to news
as Viacom's MTV Music Television is to music.

Neither one includes much of the basic ingredient advertised in the name of the product.

35 posted on 09/01/2006 12:48:58 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: COUNTrecount
Teary Goodbye?



Katie was grinding her stiletto heel into the geezer's foot, wasn't she?
36 posted on 09/01/2006 12:49:23 PM PDT by macamadamia ("He who sits on fence gets poll up ass." Fun Tzu, The Art of Politics)
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To: Bob

NEVER FORGET that the DNC was a conduit in the forged National Guard memos story.


37 posted on 09/01/2006 12:50:07 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If we're having a "torch passing" ceremony, why wouldn't Dan Rather be there?

I hear that he'll be there. His invitation is being faxed from the Kinko's in Abilene, Texas as we speak.

38 posted on 09/01/2006 12:51:59 PM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Cronkite was big at CBS at its peak and at his most duplicitest.

Cronkite lied about the Viet Nam war and set the stage for Dan Rather and CBS to fit the news into their leftist worldview.

Glad to see them all gone.


39 posted on 09/01/2006 12:52:09 PM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: COUNTrecount
"Incoming anchor Katie Couric joined Schieffer..."


40 posted on 09/01/2006 12:52:47 PM PDT by quark
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