[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 ..."

No. The media is polite to their friends and relentless and merciless to their enemies. Ask Sarah Palin.

[TigersEye]

Bob Schieffer is one of the lamest of these old hack MSM
propagandists. He takes his Kool-Aid by IV drip now.

[jeffc]

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.