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Schieffer On Scandals: "It's Very, Very Disturbing What We're Seeing" (Video)
Real Clear Politics Video (at source) ^ | May 16, 2013 | NA

Posted on 05/16/2013 10:43:41 PM PDT by neverdem

CHARLIE ROSE: You have seen lots of second terms. This one came in on a big political victory, wanting to do things. And you have this picture, one, of intrusive government and yet a president who seems like a bystander in his own government.

BOB SCHIEFFER: People were talking in Washington about -- some people were saying, "Are we back to the Nixon administration? This is what they did in the Nixon administration." This is not the Nixon administration, where you had burglars and people talking about blowing up the Brookings Institution. This is more of a case, is anybody home?

I mean, just all of a sudden you have this thing with the Justice Department where they’re getting all these phone records of all the reporters. The Attorney General, well he didn’t know anything about it. You get to the IRS, they don’t seem to know anything about the Tea Party thing. You come to White House, they don’t know anything about Benghazi. Somebody’s got to grab hold of this thing. It’s very, very disturbing what we’re seeing here.

NORAH O’DONNELL: What do you make of the president’s actions yesterday? He dealt with all three things yesterday: He fired the head of the IRS. Released 100 pages of emails that deal with Benghazi. And then on the third scandal the snooping into the AP reporters’ phone records, the president then put out that he’s for this shield law for journalists. The White House took a lot of proactive action yesterday.

SCHIEFFER: They did. But that was yesterday. How is it these things all – nobody seemed to be taking very seriously up until this point? There is no question though, that the administration was trying to get the story out that the War on Terrorism, the threat of terrorism...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apaffair; benghazi; impeachnow; irs; obama; obamascandals; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: neverdem

Duhhh.....listen to these incompetent, hypocritical, so called intellectual pundits, who are aghast at Obama scandals. We knew it would happen before the thug was elected.


61 posted on 05/17/2013 4:42:21 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: djf

djf, everybody KNOWS that Sandra Fluke needs condoms!! Lots and lots of them. The problem is that the president wants you to pay for them.


62 posted on 05/17/2013 4:52:16 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: GeronL
I might have heard this on Rush.

Two Russians landed in a gulag in the 1930's. They looked around and one said to the other, "If only Stalin knew about this, he would put a stop to it." The other nodded in agreement.

True believers are just that. Let us hope that the rot is so pervasive that the good guys can keep rolling up the bad guys until they get to the guy at the top.

63 posted on 05/17/2013 5:02:54 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

we can hope.


64 posted on 05/17/2013 5:04:30 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Major Matt Mason
It was BS put out by hillary and was proved a lie and it was one of the things that got her fired from the Watergate hearings... she was incompetent... a liar... and corrupt. She actually wanted to deny Nixon council.

LLS

65 posted on 05/17/2013 5:11:14 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: atc23

70% of Americans probably think Nixon was the one who freed the slaves. Lincoln was the vampire hunter.


66 posted on 05/17/2013 5:28:02 AM PDT by Viennacon (l)
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To: neverdem

Don’t worry Bob. We’ll wake you up when the revolution’s over.


67 posted on 05/17/2013 5:30:53 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Rocky
Some good stuff in this discussion. Liberals asking questions about Obama and Hillary. I never thought I would see this.

The fawning media must NOW ask the questions they should have asked THEN---when Ohaha first surfaced as a candidate.

Who is this guy in the White House?

Remember that O's PR person----Anita "Mao" Dunn---said AFTER the 2008 election that the O Team "allowed" the media to know only what THEY wanted them to know. No probing questions and interviews were allowed.

Hillary and Bill had pics of Obama in Muslim garb--but Teddy Kennedy warned them not to use them.

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THIS WE KNOW The Obamanations are a tight-knit clique of socialists/communists/unions/progs/liberals----they see themselves as superior---bound together by "enlightened" values — reason, tolerance, diversity and equality. The rest of us are unworthy and are to be suppressed and marginalized.......using any means possible.

The Ohaha savages duped the citizenry, led us over a multi-trillion dollar deficit cliff, into massive corrupt bailouts, and atrocities like amnesty and Obamacare. Their motto: "Everything For Us-- Nothing For You."

In the wake of Benghazi, the IRS abuses, etc, we are reminded that the Obamanoids are ruthless predators w/ no empathy for others and no remorse; anti-social psychopaths who recognize no moral boundaries--aggressively going after what they want, irregardless of the consequences to others.

68 posted on 05/17/2013 5:33:49 AM PDT by Liz (To learn who rules over you, determine who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire)
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To: neverdem

This must be very hard to take for a schmuck like ole Bob. He thought we listened to him and believed what he and his pals said - poor Bob he only fooled himself and the lowlifes who vote Democrat to get “goodies.”


69 posted on 05/17/2013 5:34:14 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: pepsionice

I think you’d get better analysis from five guys down at the local barbershop, than with Bob Schieffer.

ANY guy at the local barbershop! No one’s memory is more selective than Schieffer’s. “[T]alking about blowing up the Brookings Institution . . .”? Schieffer conveniently forgets that Nixon’s enemies-list included communist sympathizers, “anti-war” critics (in quotes because anti-war meant anti-American. Fonda et al. were fine with supporting the wars waged by America’s enemies), terrorists (Black Panthers, Weather Underground) who went beyond “talking about” blowing up buildings and people! Nixon’s list was nothing more, nothing broader, than what a bipartisan House UnAmerican Activities Committee would have produced. Except, of course, that the dems had just torpedoed that committee!

Schieffer also gave air time to every single “peace” group returning from North Vietnam, advising POW relatives to take advantage of the groups’ services in delivering mail to and from the prisoners. Again forgetting that the Geneva Conventions demanded free mail-flow and that every peace-group visit furthered communist propaganda.

I’d say he was a tool; but even that overstates his role as a “journalist.”


70 posted on 05/17/2013 5:45:07 AM PDT by Mach9
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To: toddausauras

The mainstream press is dying...

If the press had been the propaganda arm of the Nixon Administration they would have died years ago... Their numbers are horrible - no one trusts them. Used car salesmen are considered more trustworthy.


71 posted on 05/17/2013 5:45:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Conservatives were Obama's victims, but unlike the press we were aware of it.)
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To: tcrlaf
And you have this picture, one, of intrusive government and yet a president who seems like a bystander in his own government.

Yeah, and Nixon was just a 'bystander' too...yeah, right.

Charlie Rose needs to leave his liberal bubble a few minutes every year or two. He's coming across as a fool.

72 posted on 05/17/2013 5:49:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Conservatives were Obama's victims, but unlike the press we were aware of it.)
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To: neverdem; mickie; flaglady47; Chigirl 26; Bob Ireland
Reading the full article, it pops out that Schieffer is more worried about Obama not "taking hold" of the scandals and the government itself than anything else.

Reading between the lines, Obama is still his god, his cult leader. He is more rueful, more disappointed, more crestfallen than he is outraged and worried for his country.

Folks, all this blather from the media ostensibly criticising Obama is done MORE IN SORROW THAN IN ANGER. These scandals are terrible blows because they're difficult to contain....especially the IRS one. But the media will soon be back on its feet again....and will be in full Obama protective mode in short order.

The leftist media is what it is, it hasn't changed, it won't change....and it will still blindly have his back.

73 posted on 05/17/2013 5:54:56 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: neverdem
If I recall correctly, Nixon merely suggested using the IRS to target those on his 'enemies list', and was turned down by his own appointee and Nixon didn't press the issue. It would appear that we had a bit more integrity back in the day.

We also had a lot more integrity in the press, which today compares someone talking about using the IRS as a weapon to someone who actually was using the IRS as a weapon.

74 posted on 05/17/2013 5:55:04 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: GeronL
“Obama didn’t know anything about the forcible detention of 10 million opponents in 180 concentration camps in 48 states. We think 2 guys in Cincinnati....”

Schieffer would believe it - so would Charlie Rose.

75 posted on 05/17/2013 6:14:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (Conservatives were Obama's victims, but unlike the press we were aware of it.)
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To: GOPJ

lol. bump

The NY Times would accuse Obama’s critics on the matter of blowing it out of proportion for political reasons.

Jay Carney will say on MSNBC “There is no scandal here”


76 posted on 05/17/2013 6:15:42 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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77 posted on 05/17/2013 6:32:12 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: neverdem

Looks to me like he said the President is not evil like Nixon, he’s just incompetent and stupid. It’s the radicals around him who are the evil ones and he has to get a handle on them.


78 posted on 05/17/2013 6:33:39 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: rlmorel
"...Inside each and every liberal lurks a tyrant, trying to get out..."

The nut of the problem, eh?

It's amazing, really...

My sis, the social worker, a gentle soul, indeed. But a liberal, thru and thru.

She is convinced that she knows best how to run everybody else's life. Most especially those of rich people -- whose wealth is gained unfairly -- and conservatives, who are naturally inclined to be uncaring brutes.

All this save for her clients, of course, for whom she is filled with compassion and care. She doesn't expect them to change their slovenly ways -- because she needs them to need her to care for them in some way.

She can't bear independence in others...and strives to make us all dependent on her and her sort. Liberalism IS a mental disease.

79 posted on 05/17/2013 8:17:14 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE --)
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To: Nextrush

Your memory is good: Thompson gave Baker that question to ask.


80 posted on 05/17/2013 11:34:50 AM PDT by Fedora
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