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Bob Schieffer's Questions: Pablum Designed to Let Bush Slide
Not one question about energy. Not one question about the environment. Those, of course are two areas where Bush's policies are abymsal. But oh, yes - there was a question designed to give Bush a chance to wax pious (Schieffer asked him to clarify what he meant by "I talk to my other father" ). This debate was by far the flattest - but it was neither Bush nor Kerry's fault. The fault lies at the door of Bob Schieffer - a seasoned journalist who knew exactly what he was doing when, to try to make his golfing buddy Bush look better, dished up pablum - at a time when America desperately needs meat. The spirits of honest journalists from the past century looking down on Schieffer tonight must have felt nothing but contempt.