http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/seebs/ en-us Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:20:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2062771/posts Did anyone else see the Letterman Show tonight, Friday 8/15: when actor Ben Kingsley walked out to great applause, he walked up to Dave Letterman and said "God Bless American Enthusiasm!" and then repeated himself, "God Bless American enthusiasm!" Except CBS simply filtered out the word "God." Both times. Watching closely, I know I saw Kingsley's lips form the word "God" both times, his lips were clearly moving before I heard "...Bless American enthusiasm!" I thought I was imagining things, but it happened a second time! David Letterman Show (Late Show)) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2062771/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:20:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063002/posts Anti-Obama and right-wing bloggers have been throwing more and more criticism against the wall to see what sticks. One of their more fanciful charges is that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, born in Hawaii in 1961, is not a U.S. citizen and therefore cannot be elected president. In the face of Internet insinuations that the Illinois Senator was actually born somewhere outside the U.S. and therefore does not fall within Article II of the Constitution ("A natural born Citizen") and the 14th Amendment, Barack Obama's campaign has posted a copy of his birth certificate on its rumor-discrediting Web site, www.fightthesmears.com.... CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063002/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:17:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057872/posts (CBS) Barack Obama leads John McCain 45 percent to 39 percent in the latest CBS News poll. Despite Obama's highly-publicized foreign trip and McCain's recent high-profile advertisements, the findings are unchanged since a CBS News/New York Times poll released last month. The percentage of undecided voters - 13 percent - also remains steady. Obama's overseas trip, which was widely seen as a success, has not enhanced perceptions of his effectiveness as a commander in chief. Just 20 percent of those surveyed say Obama is "very likely" to be an effective commander in chief, down 4 percentage points from last month.... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057872/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 06:09:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057472/posts I’m not sure this is even worth mentioning. I’d think nothing of it…except McCain’s top 10 list from the day before is still there. If you remember the list was “The 10 Ten Signs Obama is Overconfident About The Presidential Campaign”: 10. Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to “Oklobama” 9. Offered Bush $20 for the “Mission Accomplished” banner 8. Asked guy at Staples, “Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?” 7. The affair with Barbara Walters 6. Having head measured for Mount Rushmore 5. Guy sits around eating soup all day 4. He’s voting for Nader 3. Offered... NiceDeb http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057472/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:35:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050315/posts For those of you who don't keep up with the conservative blogosphere, one of the memes they've been trying to push for the past couple of weeks is this: Barack Obama may give a good prepared speech, but his dirty little secret is that he's actually an empty suit who's totally at sea without a teleprompter. Today, for example, Andy McCarthy, offers up this snippet from an Obama press conference in Jerusalem: Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way... C'BS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050315/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:17:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048774/posts WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday overturned a decision to fine CBS Corp (CBS.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) television stations $550,000 for airing a brief breast flash by pop singer Janet Jackson during the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048774/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:32:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048955/posts The U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia announced Monday that it has charged former CBS 3 anchor Larry Mendte with a felony count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization. The government's case against Mendte, 51, is set out in an "Information" – the formal charging document. The Information charges Mendte with one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and thereby obtaining information in furtherance of a tortious act. The Information says Mendte accessed the private e-mail accounts of former co-anchor Alycia Lane hundreds of times from from his Chestnut Hill home, his vacation home, KYW and... cbs3.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048955/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033843/posts CBS News sinks to new low; publishes crackpot global warming story, attributes it to Associated Press, kills it with no retraction Yesterday I posted a story from CBS News: Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes? The main headline was this: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming This drew a lot of attention because of the total lack of verifiable science associated with it. I posted some graphs of USGS data showing that the opposite was true, that recent earthquake energy was actually less that in the early 1900’s, and... Watts Up With That? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033843/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:52:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032952/posts On Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Julie Chen teased an upcoming segment on Barack Obama: "...during the long primary season, we all learned a lot about Barack Obama. He is a Senator. He's a Harvard grad. He's a husband. And he is a father. But this morning, you're going to learn five things you probably don't know about Barack Obama." Later, in David Letterman style, correspondent Jeff Glor introduced the story: "...here are the top five things you likely don't know about Barack Obama." Among those things, were important facts such as "Number four -- in addition to enjoying basketball... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032952/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022025/posts “My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,” he told a small group of veterans here Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. Cbs News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022025/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 18:49:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2020902/posts "Vinegar Hill," starring Mary-Louise Parker and Tom Skerritt, will be the first to air on May 24. Based on the novel by A. Manette Ansay, the movie centers on a schoolteacher (Parker) and her husband (Skerritt), who move in with his dysfunctional parents when the family falls on hard times. Tony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley will portray Skerritt's mother. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2020902/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 01:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012421/posts Dan Rather fired another round against his former network Tuesday, charging in an amended lawsuit that CBS News labeled the anchor "too hot to handle" and prevented him from being hired by other networks following his acrimonious departure. Rather was rebuffed in an earlier attempt when many of his claims were knocked down by a New York state judge. But the judge also allowed Rather to resubmit his claims. In the latest filing, Rather claimed that CNN, ABC, NBC and other networks met to talk about possible employment but that all eventually declined for reasons that included, in the lawsuit's... THR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012421/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 13:09:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991164/posts Last week I wrote that it would be hard to determine the political impact of either Barack Obama's pastor's comments, or Obama's subsequent speech about those various comments. I also wrote that our own polling firm would attempt to measure exactly that. (For the record, our polls have correctly polled the winner in every presidential primary race we've surveyed this year, except the Tennessee Republican primary.) In our survey of the Wright/Obama situation, we merely asked if respondents were aware of the pastor's "past comments," and of "Sen. Obama's speech about the remarks made by his pastor." We did not... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991164/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:04:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977749/posts MONTGOMERY - The chairman of the Alabama Republican Party sent a letter to "60 Minutes" producers asking for a retraction unless they could provide evidence backing up a segment on former Gov. Don Siegelman's prosecution. In the segment aired Sunday, north Alabama lawyer Jill Simpson said Republican strategist Karl Rove in 2001 asked her take a compromising photo of Siegelman with one of his aides. "Only the most committed anti-Rove/Bush activist could swallow such a tale," party chairman Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, wrote in the letter to "60 Minutes." "If you are unable to publicly produce hard and convincing evidence... The Birminghan News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977749/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:25:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968430/posts 60 Minutes on Sunday night ran back-to-back interview segments with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and while Steve Kroft's session with Obama provided a friendly forum in which Kroft admired how “through twelve long months of mind-numbing, muscle-aching, adrenaline-fueled monotony and exhaustion, there has been barely a misstep” by Obama, it was devoid of anything approaching the giddy girl talk about mainlining coffee and high school boys Katie Couric put into her segment with Clinton. Couric set up the story by trumpeting how Clinton “remains focused, energized and anything but defeatist.” She soon wondered: “How do you do it? I... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968430/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:54:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956531/posts Fortunately, most people will likely be watching the Giants-Packers game Sunday evening, and will therefore miss the one-sided hysteria. However, for those that mysteriously don't switch channels after the Chargers-Patriots game, CBS will offer a special about global warming this Sunday instead of "60 Minutes." How marvelous. The CBS News website hysterically described this installment of "The Age of Warming": Nowhere is the evidence of global warming as striking than near the earth's poles. CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley's report brings him to the top and the bottom of the world, where scientists point out the effects of the warming... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956531/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:43:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938469/posts A suspected bias attack on four Jewish subway riders in New York City has resulted in a friendship between the Jewish victims and the Muslim college student who came to their aid. Walter Adler is calling Hassan Askari a hero for intervening when Adler and three friends were assaulted on a subway train in lower Manhattan on Friday night. CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938469/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:06:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929118/posts But it was another type of slime that hit the Nickelodeon screen during a segment of Nick News, hosted by Linda Ellerbee. Presented as a news program for kids, the recent episode “Rebels with a Cause”, featured, among others, two anti-war teens. Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929118/posts#comment Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:08:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909824/posts Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the secretive "Supermax" prison where he is being held. Pelley also reports that some 900 force feedings were performed on other al-Qaeda terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest conditions at the Colorado top-security federal prison. The 60 MINUTES segment will be broadcast Sunday Oct. 14 (7:30-9:00 PM, ET/7:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network. The prison in Florence, Colo., which the government calls ADX-Florence for... Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909824/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:42:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1908338/posts Abstinence advocate calls on CBS to apologize Program ridicules Christians, has hypocrites stone club member The leader of an organization that advocates abstinence is demanding CBS apologize for portraying Christian members of an abstinence club as sexually active hypocrites who stone another member to death. "CBS should apologize to America for its reckless episode," said Leslee Unruh, president of National Abstinence Clearinghouse. "With visibility comes responsibility, and CBS didn't take that into account when airing this tainted show. Abstinence education works." The episode at issue is of the CBS crime show "Cold Case," which depicts presumably devout Christian teens in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1908338/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:06:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905741/posts In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States." From what I can tell, nobody among the journalistic swells bothered to ask, "Who isn't 'we,' Kemo Sabe?" I don't want to revisit those supposedly Orwellian flag pins, which sat so heavily on so many journalistic lapels. But it's worth recalling that during World War II, civilian correspondent Walter Cronkite -- whose anchor job Couric now... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905741/posts#comment Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:02:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905132/posts A CBS producer was arrested Saturday after deputies say he attempted to arrange sex with 11-year-old girl by communicating with undercover investigators posing as the fictitious girl's father, authorities said. Daniel J. Barron, 56, a 15-year producer with CBS News who lives in New Jersey, allegedly told an undercover St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office detective to bring his 11-year-old daughter to the Fort Lauderdale hotel where he was staying while in town to cover Sunday's Miami Dolphins game, according to an arrest report. Barron allegedly told the undercover detective, whom he met Saturday afternoon in an America Online chat room... PalmBeachPost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905132/posts#comment Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:24:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1905067/posts Before Katie Couric's confession that "saying 'we' when referring to the United States" makes her uncomfortable fades from the news cycle, two observations: ...snip... 2) It does help explain one of Katie's sillier comments, a few years back when the space shuttle Columbia crashed. On the Today show, she saluted the fallen crew as follows: "They were an airborne United Nations - men, women, an African-American, an Indian woman, an Israeli…." No, they weren't an "airborne UN". They were an airborne America. For a start, if there was such a thing as a UN rocket, the Israeli guy wouldn't get... NRO, "The Corner" via Steyn Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1905067/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 21:39:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901789/posts Scott Pelley conducted a very tough interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which aired on Sunday's 60 Minutes, but on Monday’s Early Show Pelley was very generous in his personal assessment of the man. Host Harry Smith and Pelley agreed that Ahmadinejad is "crazy like a fox" while Pelley also hailed Ahmadinejad as "incorruptible" and "modest." Pelley contended the dictator, who denies the Holocaust, wants Israel destroyed and is causing the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, is a lot smarter than Westerners believe and is even a "friendly" guy: The important thing, I think, Harry, to understand, he's described... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901789/posts#comment Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:15:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901261/posts I have obtained new documentary evidence regarding Dan Rather's relationship with his former bosses at CBS News. Obviously, I cannot identify my source. But he told me during a collect call from Sofia, Bulgaria, that he has access to Rather's "personal files" and that his typewriter was built after 1966. To authenticate the document, I showed it to some of my kids' friends, and they said it was awesome. Here, then, the letter -- written by Dan Rather and dated Nov. 31, 2006: "Dear CBS News: "My new career at HDNet is keeping me busier than a bordello at Mardis... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901261/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:01:54 GMT