Posted on 10/30/2011 10:01:19 AM PDT by mandaladon
Republican presidential frontrunner Herman Cain got a tongue lashing on Sunday from CBS’ Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer over a much-publicized Cain campaign ad showing Cain’s chief of staff, Mark Block, taking a drag from a cigarette.
In a rare “editorial opinion” during the interview, Schieffer accused the former Godfather’s CEO of allowing his campaign to send a signal that “it’s cool to smoke.”
“Let me just tell you, it’s not funny to me,” Schieffer told Cain. “I am a cancer survivor, like you. I had cancer that’s smoking-related. I don’t think its serves the country well – and this an editorial opinion here – to be showing someone smoking a cigarette. And you’re the front runner now.”
Schieffer added: “And it seems to me as front runner you would have a responsibility of not to take that kind of a tone. I would suggest that perhaps as the front runner, you would want to raise the level of the campaign.”
Cain responded that, “We will do that Bob, and I do respect your objection to the ad. And probably about 30 percent of the feedback was very similar to yours. It was not intended to offend anyone and being a cancer survivor myself, I am sensitive to that sort of thing.”
The online ad went viral last week on the Internet and on cable TV for being unorthodox. The ad shows Block taking a smoke from a cigarette after asking voters to “get involved” in the campaign.
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And the PC loonies are out of the gate. Go F yourself Bob.
It's all good.
After all of this, I’m waiting for the eight balls in the state run “media” to come out with a “poll” this week that says Cain “only has a 5% name recognition among the voters”. LOL!
The Ad to me just shows pure defiance and cunning to the MSM and the GOP establishment. It shows moxie. Bob is going the way of Olbermann.
First they raised the price so high you couldn’t afford to buy them at the corner store anymore, so I started getting my cigarettes online and having them delivered by mail right to my door.
Then they decided to ban the sale of cigarettes online but NOT little cigars. So I switched to little cigars...which are actually less expensive.
THEN, in a move I am sure was designed to help the US Postal Service, they banned ALL tobacco products from being sent through the mail.
Fedex is much faster anyway.
Bob Sheetferbrains
Meanwhile Schieffer has no effing problem with 40 million young souls aborted from this earth’s existence for the sake of a woman’s right to “choose” (misnomer). Yet he castigates Cain because someone is exercising his own individual right to actually “choose”.
I forgot who said “...first, kill all the lawyers”...but he was off in profession. The very first traitors that should be dispensed with are journolists, news readers and ‘news’ program directors. Then, Politicians, then the lawyers.
We all know the ad is not about smoking. It’s all about freedom and all the PC crap we deal with everyday.
What I want to know is why in these interviews Cain doesn’t state its obvious anti-PC message and just says its Block being Block ? I want him to defend this in your face ad to the liberal-fascists.
“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.” Jacques Barzun
Tony Soprano and his goombahs can fill all your tobacco needs for less than they charge in the stores.
He can probably supply incandescent lightbulbs, Freon, top-loading washing machines and phosphate dishwashing detergent as well.
Hmmmm, maybe I could become the next Al Capone if I invent and market a phosphate additive to dishwashing and laundry detergents...
ROTFLMAOPIMP!!! It's going to take a looooong time to get the smell of pure 100% bullsh*t out of the Daily Caller offices after Pappas dumped that load.
Shakespeare
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-king-henry-vi-part-2.htm
Funny how nothing ever changes.
I also hear tell the corner bartender can hook you up with Christopher Moltisanti, who has a sideline ripping old 3.5 gallon toilets and shower heads out of foreclosed houses...
But there Bob is, being a liberal and a Democrat on TV, sending a message that it’s cool to be a liberal Democrat despite the fact that millions have had their lives, liberties, and property stolen by liberal Democrats.
I’m outraged at the message you’re sending, Bob. Have you no shame?
I think that Schieffer missed one of the major points of the ad. First, many are still talking about it. Second, the government interference and take over of personal responsibility is, to me, the major point of the ad.
Everybody knows that smoking is detrimental to your health, and is a cancer risk. But it is smokers who light up and put the cigarette or cigar into their mouths; they have the responsibility to make that (bad) decision. They do not need to be ostracized for their bad habits. Let us all get the government out of our lives; it is overkill for those who decide to smoke.
“Does not Dear Leader smoke a pac a day? Where’s the outrage, Bob?”
Waiting for the video of brave bob dressing down dear leader.....
You can buy phosphate at any Home Depot....or Walmart even Add a tablespoon full to your dishwsher and voila! Good for your laundry too.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
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