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Bob Schieffer Laughs Out Loud After Playing Video of Obama Bragging About His Accomplishments
News Buster.com ^ | May 27, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 05/27/2012 5:28:26 PM PDT by Kaslin

CBS's Bob Schieffer certainly wasn't in an Obama-loving mood Sunday.

CBS's Bob Schieffer certainly wasn't in an Obama-loving mood Sunday.

Having asked the President's senior campaign adviser "Whatever happened to hope and change" early in the program, the Face the Nation host in a subsequent segment laughed out loud after playing a clip of Obama bragging about his accomplishments on 60 Minutes last year (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MRC TV video player

BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: I want to play a little something for you. I think one of the lessons that probably all of us recognize is that if you-- I've wrote a book once about Ronald Reagan it came out the month that he was-- that George Bush was inaugurated. The book, I-- I think, everything in the book is accurate, but it is not entirely true, because we didn't know at that time that the Soviet Union was going to fall in. I don't give credit-- Reagan credit, total credit for that but certainly his policies had a part in it. I think you really run a risk when you start trying to judge a presidency--

MICHAEL DUFFY, TIME MAGAZINE: Too soon.

BOB SCHIEFFER: --too soon. I want to run this. This is what Barack Obama last December told Steve Kroft of 60 MINUTES. I want to get your reaction to it.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any President, with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR and Lincoln, but, you know, just in terms of what we've got and done in modern history.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BOB SCHIEFFER: So [laughs] as incumbent Presidents often do they give themselves good reviews. Can anyone say even in the middle of a presidency this is going to be a successful or an unsuccessful presidency?

Yeah, there were plenty of Americans who thought this was pretty funny when it first aired last December.

What wasn't funny was how the clip Schieffer played Sunday wasn't included in the actual 60 Minutes broadcast.

As NewsBusters reported at the time, Obama's boastful remarks were only available at the CBS website.

Maybe it's because a lot of people at CBS besides Schieffer thought they were too hysterical to share with the television public.

Given Schieffer's on-air reaction almost six months later, can you blame them?


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; democrats; nobama2012; obama; obamateur; obamatruthfile; theamateur
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To: publius911; Kaslin
If, however, he was resigning on national TV I might reconsider.

I wouldn't trust the media reporting it. I'd wait for the rerun on youtube. There's only so much of the self-aggrandizing pompous egomaniac so-called rock star, narcisstic community organizer we can take.

He'll never quit before the election - there's too many concerts, vacations, celebrities and fancy dinners they'd miss while Americans remain jobless and are watching every dime and fearing every act, legislation and social upheavel planned on his agenda til then.

Moving vans at the White House in January (likely destination either Chicago or Hawaii) is all many Americans want now and for Christmas.

21 posted on 05/27/2012 6:20:27 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: stephenjohnbanker
” I haven’t watched any of the ABC channels for years.”

I remember that almost the very last time David Brinkley was on the air he said this about Bill Clinton: "He's a bore, and he will always be a bore".

22 posted on 05/27/2012 6:20:53 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Kaslin

Obama is down!

Time to start kicking!


23 posted on 05/27/2012 6:22:29 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: AU72

Brinkley settled on the truth more than a few times.


24 posted on 05/27/2012 6:26:58 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: bray

Makes sense. Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama enslaved the free.


25 posted on 05/27/2012 6:29:16 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Ditter

“If I am not in possession of the remote when obozo comes on . . . . . . I leave the room. Life’s too short to listen to anything he has to say.”

Post of the year.


26 posted on 05/27/2012 6:31:13 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: expat2

Please. I have a weak stomach today.


27 posted on 05/27/2012 6:31:23 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Kaslin

If Lefty Bob Schieffer is laughing at him, the Bamster is deep in the doo-doo.


28 posted on 05/27/2012 6:32:56 PM PDT by cookcounty ("We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young." -J Goldberg)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

29 posted on 05/27/2012 6:45:19 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Kaslin

Schieffer is a wind-up stooge but looks like he had a moment of clarity today


30 posted on 05/27/2012 6:48:18 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: publius911

I saw your post, in other words, on another forum.

Seems the feeling is spreading. You are right.

We have to keep getting the truth out. Don’t let the msm dismay you with phony job #’s. Don’t look at pics of the uber man with his perfect “little” Flotus doing a kiss-kiss for mass distribution.

We all know he’s a Marxist, phony, down-low, guy that was pushed and pulled over every hill because he was a tool for the Left.

Just keep getting the truth out, politely (sorry, I didn’t here, but figured I’d get a pass). Relentlessly. Drip...drip...drip. The truth IS getting out.

Gee, Barry....Mean old dumbo Mormon Mitt! A “favorite” son. Got into Hah-vad the bad way. How did you?

My new fav rag is: DEMAND BOTH TO SHOW UNI TRANSCRIPTS.

Oh....this will be fun. Every time I have a few minutes, I’m going to say this on the the Huffpo: MAKE BOTH SHOW ALL RECORDS.

I have a new hobby!


31 posted on 05/27/2012 6:57:15 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: Kaslin

Even his lefty butt kissers are laughing at him. What a hoot.


32 posted on 05/27/2012 7:04:46 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (He has Risen!!! If you do not know Him, this is the perfect week to seek Him out!!!)
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To: Terry Mross

Videos like this won’t help his ego, IMO. He’s pissing off entire segments of the voting population.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd


33 posted on 05/27/2012 7:05:45 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Kaslin

"Dag nabbit, not again..."

34 posted on 05/27/2012 7:20:52 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: acapesket; A.Hun; Aleya2Fairlie; aligncare; altura; Bender2; Bernard; bray; cajungirl; Carley; ...

Am I not always asking everyone—or someone—to PLEASE watch Face the Nation?

Now look what you’ve missed!!!!!! ;-)


35 posted on 05/27/2012 7:23:17 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Kaslin

!?


36 posted on 05/27/2012 7:26:10 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA. DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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To: Kaslin
Clintonoids at work.
37 posted on 05/27/2012 7:31:37 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: Kaslin
MICHAEL DUFFY, TIME MAGAZINE: Too soon.

Not too soon for Obama The Great who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he even found the location of the bathroom in the west wing!

38 posted on 05/27/2012 7:35:42 PM PDT by varon (The Patriots stand watch!)
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To: expat2; Lurker
It means that Hilary is coming.....

I've been saying this for about two weeks. It's obvious, both from all the news stories about Zero's weakening position as well as Bubba talking her up while she keeps all too quiet. Too bad so many FReepers can't seem to wrap their heads around how easy it would be for the Slave Party to pull it off. They've even got the Donald out there Birthing away so that they can blame Republicans and keep the black vote on the plantation.

39 posted on 05/27/2012 7:40:33 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Kaslin.


40 posted on 05/27/2012 7:43:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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