Bob Schieffer Laughs Out Loud After Playing Video of Obama Bragging About His Accomplishments

News Buster.com ^ | May 27, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

[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?

[Leaning Right]

If, however, he was resigning on national TV I might reconsider.

My advice to you: If Obama should ever resign, take a pass on watching it. Because he'd blame everyone for his resignation but himself. And he'd do it with a half-whine and a half-smirk.

It would probably make you so mad you'd throw something at your TV set.

[iceskater]

This would mean more if it were October and not May. All the media is doing is innoculating themselves. “See, we run stories critical of Zero.”

I despise the media.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bob just laughing because Zero didn’t turn us into a communist dictatorship like he wants.

[firebrand]

He managed to get a jab in at Reagan too, you notice. Said he wasn’t all that responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union. Then who was?

[RightOnline]

"Are enough voters blind to facts to return Obama to office and continue destroying what tens of millions have died to create, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?"

Yes.

[Theodore R.]

Isn’t it possible that Schieffer is laughing about something else? He is a loyal TX Democrat to the core. He used to say he is liberal on everything but the death penalty.

[SgtBob]

Me, and a half of a million brothers of mine.....

[SgtBob]

.....and sisters, though I served with none of them.

[arthurus]

It is not terribly surprising that some of the press is “turning” on the kenyan after a fashion. The Republicans have put up a candidate they know they can learn to, if not love, at least take some satisfaction in.

[arthurus]

What can it mean when the hardcore lefties at CBS abandon Hussein?

It can mean that Romney doesn't trouble them terribly.

[FreeAtlanta]

It means Obama and his desperate gang of misfits will use our men and women in an poorly conceived attack on Iran.

A desperate lefty thinks war is only good for getting poll numbers up.

[IncPen]

ping

[rwfromkansas]

I swear, sometimes I hate coming here to read posts like this. Good lord, you do think everything is some liberal conspiracy.

He’s laughing because Obama is trying to rank himself with Lincoln.

I can assure you that many in the media will try to find everything negative they can about Romney, so you will get your wish for an all-out assault from those folks. Others will be more middle of the road, just like always.

[firebrand]

Good point. Though Reagan did some pretty nifty stuff, like knowlingly selling faulty computers to the Russians, which I read in a book called The Secret Weapon. He did it by outspending them too.

Thank you for your service, and have a blessed Memorial Day.

[Irish Eyes]

Good video..LOL

I wonder if the rest of the panel contained their laughter?

[xzins]

What can it mean when the hardcore lefties at CBS abandon Hussein?

It means that Romney is OK with them.

[Eleutheria5]

CBS is racist and always has been. That’s what it means./s

[Right Wing Assault]

I can’t stand:

The cadence of his voice.

They way he whistles the letter ‘S’.

That thumb to index finger thing he does when he talks.

There are may more, but those in particular drive me away.