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Schieffer to Obama Advisor: ‘Why Are You Here? Why Isn’t the White House Chief of Staff Here?’
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Posted on 05/19/2013 11:22:25 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: TigersEye

You need to save some of your anger for Democrats.


41 posted on 05/19/2013 12:43:48 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's Gotten So Bad for Obama Fox News Changed Its Slogan to "See. I Told You So!"- Leno)
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To: TigersEye
Greta wouldn’t fill her questions with caveats about “not trying to be argumentative” and the like. Schieffer is a hack and a few tough questions on one day doesn’t make up for that.

Can't take a win, huh? Obama smiles.

Listen - I know that Bob Schieffer has terminal liberalitis. All it would take to snap him back to battery, would be a little soothing from some 'important' figure in the regime.

The point is, he put a crack in many liberals' cone of ignorance today. That's what's important, and he can't take it back.

42 posted on 05/19/2013 12:53:09 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bob Shieffer - Stop carrying the pails of water for the Obama Administration. Stand up for America Bob. Bob use the mind that God gave you and stop being a mindless idiot.

But, honestly Centralized Baracknews Service will not take a stand against Barack. The media is the desk drawer of Obama and he will uilize them to promote his message


43 posted on 05/19/2013 12:57:00 PM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: T-Bird45

Dems,impeach and remove obama b4 the 2014 elections and u might have a chance at 2014 and 2016. If you don’t, the party’s over.


44 posted on 05/19/2013 12:57:56 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: Sub-Driver

Scheiffer is not known as being especially brilliant..
The answer went right over his head..

Actually the question is stupid.. it is obvious WHY?..
Scheiffer refuses to accept WHY?.. he knows WHY?.. but obfuscates.. ON PURPOSE..

Any proper questions would get him fired in an instant..
Everyone KNOWS Why?.. Treason and Sedition.. and most likely espionage...
Clintoonian maleficence on steroids..


45 posted on 05/19/2013 12:59:04 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Sub-Driver

I saw that and almost fell out of my chair, I think I will be putting Fave the Nation on my regular Sunday schedule. Meet the press is getting really lame.


46 posted on 05/19/2013 12:59:40 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been offically denied)
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To: Sub-Driver
damn... i think i just saw a pig fly by my window!!!
47 posted on 05/19/2013 1:00:40 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Sub-Driver

And then, when you do work twice as hard and you “come out” as conservative, you are then dragged through the mud.


48 posted on 05/19/2013 1:01:58 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.Psalms55:9)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sure seems to me that your question “Does CBS have an Uprising within its news Division?”, is quite valid.


49 posted on 05/19/2013 1:02:50 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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To: All

Oops. Wrong thread. Nothing to see here.:)


50 posted on 05/19/2013 1:03:32 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.Psalms55:9)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
I just wish that someone on our side would just ask these questions to Obama..if I can come up with them how come these Senators who supposedly are so darn smart can’t come up with them

They can't get past Obama's Praetorian Guard, that's why. About the only thing they can do, is to look into a camera and ask Obama those questions remotely. Some Congress critters are doing just that, and I hope that more and more do.

What's heartening, is that even some media figures and rat politicians are beginning to openly wonder "why?" I, for one, acknowledge and applaud that sea change. It's more than we've seen in five years of this national horror.

And the situation for the regime is getting worse as days go by - not better. They're not getting a handle on any of these scandals. They're festering, and deepening mistrust on the part of the American people.

Make no mistake, the IRS scandal is the hammer that pounded the other scandals into people's heads. That went straight to the bone, because that agency affects the lives of every productive American. It's now clear that the IRS is being used as the enforcement arm of the administration in a way that can only be seen as downright diabolical.

There's simply no way to sugar coat it, and even a fool knows that the corruption goes straight to the top.

51 posted on 05/19/2013 1:05:18 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rdcbn

“...We are at war with Al Qaeda and arming Al Qaeda with the Terrorists ultimate dream weapons does not come into the heading of impeachment, it comes under the heading of Treason and can be punishable by jail or even hanging...”

Wow...What’s the clearest evidence of the Al Queda gun running?


52 posted on 05/19/2013 1:08:19 PM PDT by KMJames (Be alert - the enemy prowls about as a roaring lion seeking to devour.)
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To: KMJames

So this scheiffer LIB is a racist now. I am stunned.


53 posted on 05/19/2013 1:10:14 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Can you imagine Mike Wallace in his prime being so deferential to a Business tycoon or a Republican politician -- "I don't mean to be argumentative ... with all due respect ... I don't mean to imply anything ... please don't take this the wrong way ..."

I've noticed the same thing recently, even Chris Wallace on FNC did it. WTH? Why be so deferential to these people? It's obvious the zero admin is trotting these people out (Miller, Pfieffer, Rice, et al) to float trial balloons to see what will work, then - if they need to change their narrative - to claim these people as mere underlings who got the issues confused (and then throw them under the bus).

I can't see how being nice to them will help the "news" media, while they (media) are never so deferential to those on the Right.

At least a few on the hard Left are asking probing questions. It's a start.

54 posted on 05/19/2013 1:10:55 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Windflier

What’s disheartening is seeing polls that show Obama is still popular..what is it, do people not care about what he is doing..or are they so preoccupied with getting free Govt handouts that they could care less about what Obama is doing to this country..Ive seen people interviewed on those man on the street segments, they think Benghazi is a soft drink, they don’t even know who the VP is..these are the people who vote now THAT is scary..what Obama can get away with because of a media in his back pocket is scary..the IRS is just the beginning..because its a sign of things to come..if you think the IRS targeting Conservatives is bad, you just wait til they control your health care..when they refuse people because of who they voted for, or what books they read, or if they are against gay marriage or not..THAT is when things will get truly scary..the IRS targeting Conservatives is just the tip of the iceberg, when it becomes life and death, will people care then..


55 posted on 05/19/2013 1:15:18 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: jeffc

I watched Schieffer and it seemed to me that he emotionally apologized to Pfieffer at the end of the interview.


56 posted on 05/19/2013 1:20:27 PM PDT by KMJames (Be alert - the enemy prowls about as a roaring lion seeking to devour.)
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To: KMJames

The Obama Administration was using the Benghazi Consulate to take advanced weapons from the ex Libyan military inventory and transfer them to Syrian Rebel forces loyal to Al Qaeda via a Turkish intermediate Cut Out.

Amb Stevens last action in Benghazi was to meet with the Turkish intermediary to transfer the arms shipment.

Finding and getting control of the missing and stolen ex Libyan military hardware and collecting the weapons for disposal , especially Libya’s sophisticated anti aircraft missiles (more capable than the famous US Stinger missile that the mujahadeen used to bring the Soviets to their knees in Afghanistan) ), was the primary mission the CIA and the ex Seal Contractors in Benghazi.

They were very good at their jobs and had collected quite a weapons cache which they had in their possession.

The Obama preferred method of disposal of these weapons was to transfer them to Syrian Al Qaeda forces supposedly for use in Syria against Assad.

This has been reported in the open Media.


57 posted on 05/19/2013 1:24:51 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Sub-Driver
Schieffer is a little late to the party! The fact is that he is one of the few who is old enough to know better.

One must remember that the current crop of younger journalists who studied in high schools, colleges and universities which never exposed them to the essential ideas of liberty. Neither were they schooled in how to perceive oncoming threats to liberty.

America's founding generations understood both, as was observed by Edmund Burke, who, in speaking of the Americans, asserted:

"Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of debate will say, that this knowledge ought to teach them more clearly the rights of legislature, their obligations to obedience, and the penalties of rebellion. All this is mighty well. But my honourable and learned friend on the floor, who condescends to mark what I say for animadversion, will disdain that ground. He has heard, as well as I, that when great honours and great emoluments do not win over this knowledge to the service of the state, it is a formidable adversary to government. If the spirit be not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."

Then, there was Thomas Jefferson:

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example of concession, betraying the common right of independent opinion . . . ." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1803.

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.

58 posted on 05/19/2013 1:32:55 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Future Snake Eater
Yeah, definitely NOT perfect or even close. But Schieffer wasn't a PR ‘stenographer’ for democrats either. The ‘pressure’ was refreshing... A more typical question from a MSM ‘reporter’ is something like, “Why do you think Obama’s so wonderful?” or “Why are Republicans being so mean to a great President?”.

Schieffer was doing 'old school' and it was admirable.

59 posted on 05/19/2013 1:46:56 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's Gotten So Bad for Obama Fox News Changed Its Slogan to "See. I Told You So!"- Leno)
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To: TigersEye; Sub-Driver

Stephanopolis also asked this punk similar questions!!!


60 posted on 05/19/2013 1:53:43 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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