Bill Plante's Having None of This Garden Party

mediabistro.com ^ | 8/13/2007 | mediabistro.com

[Greystoke]

As Karl Rove embraced President Bush today following an emotional farewell announcement on the South Lawn, the solemnity of the moment was shattered by Bill Plante of CBS, who bellowed to Bush: "If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"

[Greystoke]

No media bias, none whatsoever

[SueRae]

Figures. Why would we expect the press to be any different today?

[capt. norm]

Hey Bill, if CBS is so smart, why are they trashing out in the ratings?

[Mr. Jeeves]

"If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"

Given Pelosi's performance so far, what makes you so sure it wasn't a deliberate strategy? ;)

[JerseyDvl]

Bill Plante is a Democrat Plant.

[Redbob]

Should have this guy frog-marched out by a coupla Secret Service guys, and told never to come back, nor to send anyone else from CBS to the White House as long as Plante works for them.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I didn’t realize that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove ran the GOP congressional campaign committee last year. What morons these presstitutes are!

[Spok]

Yes, the talking heads in the White House press corps don’t even pretend objectivity any more; the cat is out of the bag. My faith would be at least partially restored if they’d just admit it.

[nuconvert]

If Clinton is so smart, how come he got caught with this pants down..... more than once?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

CBS is just trying to dredge up an audience for Perky Katy’s show. I don’t think it will work, Bill.

[mort56]

Just what one would expect from the Tiffany Network...a classless, clueless and biased reporter who felt a personal need to put his own pettiness above the news.

The people who run the MSM claim to be the elite, but go on to prove on a daily basis they are actually brain dead. Does anyone expect Bill Plante to be censored for his juvenile behavior or will he stand a good chance for promotion? We all know the answer to that one don't we.

[tmark57]

Hilarious - there are more people on this thread, than watch the CBS Evening News!!!!!!!!

[N. Theknow]

Of course he did the same thing to Clinton when he lost Congress on an even larger scale.

< /dream >

[az_gila]

Well, he has a pass on the claim that he is a journalist...

I say this proves he isn’t and his Press Pass should be removed....

[Right Wing Assault]

"If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"

Oh, yeah? If Bill Clinton is so great, how come he dropped his drawers?

Oh, yeah? If Hillary is so great, how come half the voters won't vote for her?

Oh, yeah? If John Edwards is so great, how come his mansion is smaller than Bill Gates's?

Oh, yeah? If Jimmy Carter is so great, how come he lost the Presidential election?

Oh, yeah? If Nancy Pelosi is so strong, how come she can't move her face?

[RabidBartender]

Two words Plante: “Katie Couric”

[ozzymandus]

Bill Plante, class act. By the way, how’s CBS News doing, Bill?

[Hegemony Cricket]

Why, he’s just as smart as a plante in the garden....

[Maumee]

Old Bill (pie) Plante still around?After all the plastic surgery hes had its surprising he can open his mouth that wide to yell his bias.

[PerConPat]

there are more people on this thread, than watch the CBS Evening News!!!!!!!!

LOL! Well, there are certainly more intelligent people on this thread than ever watch The cBS Evening Propaganda. I, happily, could not pick Bill Plante out of a lineup.

[pompelmous]

CBS Classless-Biased-Senseless News

[kcvl]

And if he is so smart what is he doing working for CBS?!

[RetSignman]

” Hey CBS Plant, if you and your network is so smart why don’t you know the answer”?

[pompelmous]

Bill is well past the age of retirement and it appears that curmudgeoned senility is setting in under his thin dyed follicles.

[detch]

This sound bite of a hiney-pop for Katie was Rather trained.

I think he’s using all of his 80 IQ to compete with Dick Gregory as biggest “Clymer” of the year.

[detch]

correction...

This sound bite of a hiney-pop for Katie was Rather trained.

I think he’s using all of his 80 IQ to compete with David Gregory as biggest “Clymer” of the year.

[EternalVigilance]

One more reason to call them what they are:

The Democrat Media.

[geezerwheezer]

Bill Plante has a lot of class....it’s just all really low! What a complete putz and to make himself out to be the clown of the White House media, instead of David Gregory shows his total loss of objectivity and lack of journalistic skills. Ummmm, maybe there is a reason he works at cBS, after all! Watch out Katie, your replacement is in the wings now!

[RJS1950]

Bush’s reply should be “if you were really a reporter you wouldn’t be asking partisan political questions”.

[wayne_b24]

or maybe...

“a democrat majority makes ‘em lost? guess i’ll have to agree with you on that one!”

[RexBeach]

Nothing new here, really.

During President Reagan’s first term, the press was rude and ruder - and the president never took the bait.

You should have heard the way they spoke about him in the White House Briefing Room just before a press conference in the East Room.

You think Plante’s remark shows disrespect? Wow, you should have heard what the louts were saying about Reagan in 1982! Holy cow.

Mr. Plante should know better. But he does not, and more’s the pity.

[Flintlock]

Yo!
Bill!
Jorge and the Republocrats lost it all by theyselves.
Karl had nothing to do with it at all atall.

[Bonaparte]

"If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"

Good question, Mr. Plante. I suppose that ceding the United States to Mexico might have had something to do with it. Although, as Calderon's prefect, Bush is duty-bound to comply with directives from Mexico City.

[bikerMD]

Should have this guy frog-marched out by a coupla Secret Service guys, and told never to come back, nor to send anyone else from CBS to the White House as long as Plante works for them.

They ought to reassign him to a backrow seat in the Pressroom and never take another question from this little bed wetter.

[Roberts]

Is anyone really surprised? Respected journalist. LOL!

[Joe Boucher]

Why does President Bush continue supplying buttheads like this White HOuse press passes?
He has allowed so many “news folks”, to denegrate him usually ones that are so far left as to be blind.

[doodad]

W should have said,

“at least he was smart enough that he did not have to settle for a jounalism degree”

[crazyshrink]

Helen Thomas planning on retiring and this guy wants her spot?

[Pharmer]

Helen Thomas planning on retiring and this guy wants her spot?

As White House troll?? No he's not that ugly!

[Mark was here]

If Bill Plante, is so smart, how come Dan Rather got paid more?

[roses of sharon]

Typical juvenile Dim hack, posing as a “reporter”.

[Trajan88]

Heard on Marine One soon after take off from the South Lawn... “Hey Plant... why doesn’t CBS stick to reporting the news instead of making it up?”

[wayne_b24]

from a high-school dropout...

jounalism = journalism

(sorry, couldn’t resist!)

[doodad]

I know I know.

Ever since the wife *cleaned* the keyboard it has been cludged. I need a new one. I feel like I am on an old Underwood.

[hinckley buzzard]

No media bias, none whatsoever

Whatever, a rude but fair question. He could also be asked about the Social security flopperoo and the amnesty debacle. Yeah, I'd say Rove has been in a real slump the last couple years.

[scrabblehack]

Nah, she’s just toying....she has retired at least once before as I recall.