Schieffer's Teary Goodbye

RMZ.com ^ | Sept. 1, 2006

[Responsibility2nd]

Here's why he's crying:

[P.O.E.]

Schieffer seemed like a decent guy.

[ConservativeMind]

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.

[Brilliant]

"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?

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.

[Obie Wan]

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

[N. Theknow]

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.

[mysterio]

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.

[R.W.Ratikal]

He could have left unnoticed. No one of any sense watches CBS anymore.

[OldFriend]

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!

[NEMDF]

"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.

[weegee]

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!

[sandbar]

>>>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.

[Bob]

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.

[weegee]

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.

[macamadamia]

Teary Goodbye?



Katie was grinding her stiletto heel into the geezer's foot, wasn't she?

[weegee]

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

[steve-b]

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.

[R.W.Ratikal]

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.

[quark]

"Incoming anchor Katie Couric joined Schieffer..."