Woah, Bob Shieffer (sp) just skewered Pat Robertson

[indigobusiness]

wow...anybody catch that?

He said he remembered when PR said he'd just talked to God and God said Bush was going to win and win big (last election).

He said he didn't doubt his sincerity, bush he didn't think he was a good source for opinions, or fact-checking.

[TimeToGo]

1. Details?

[indigobusiness]

4. I amended my post to contain the gist of it

The transcript will bve available soon. It will be worth checking out.

[havocmom]

2. So he blasted a guy saying bad things about his brother's boss?

big surprise, NOT

[indigobusiness]

3. No..he blasted him for a phony God dialog.

Pretty potent stuff.

He just finished the intvw with another pearl. He's smokin'.

[Windy]

5. The more the religious right gets out there and opens their mouths

the better for Kerry. The "undecideds" are not evangelicals.
Talk about fear factor!

[indigobusiness]

6. What got me was Bob's white-hot intensity

He strikes me as a guy determined to take the gloves off and pull no punches.

I liked what I saw from him. KUDOS

[coreystone]

7. I saw the whole thing...It sounded like Sheiffer et al were ...

merely attempting to "justify" the coverage by the media in this very important election. In my mind, they failed miserably!

Just a lot of "self-spin"!

:crazy:

[Lloyd Christmas]

8. Speaking of Pat Roberson

This is my first post/reply, i luv this site

I would like to share a scary moment I had at work
yesterday.

First, my boss is a Christian and a repub and very
willing to talk about his faith.

I was speaking to him about some things that scared me about
bush as a leader of this country and bush's somewhat
radical view of religion. Comparing it to say, Pat Robertson,
as in Robertson steering hurricanes with prayer. Also, Bush's
idea that "the Constitution" is his to rewrite to suit his religion
and impose it on the rest of the country. And just touching on
the idea of maybe Bush wanting to envoke the second coming of Christ.

What I learned of my boss that day is truly disturbing, he infact did beleive that prayer could steer hurricanes and that God through prayer could do anything (no i'm not kinding).
He also got very excited (in a happy way) that he beleived the second coming was already set in progress and would be in his lifetime (hes 50 now). He was "very happy" about this! and put it to me as fact!

This is considered sane?!? He is allowed to own firearms!

[barbaraann]

10. Welcome to DU, dem_n_nc!

People who think like your boss are part of the reason I am a member of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Glad to hear you luv DU! :bounce:

[grasswire]

13. so..........

....how come God lied to George about Saddam?

[Lloyd Christmas]

16. If there is,was a god period

surely he would scoop W off this earth as an reject.

[Tsiyu]

21. Welcome to DU dem n NC!

If that means North Carolina, thanks for the gift of John Edwards!

As for the enlightenment you received at work, welcome to that club, too. It is frightening to confront the facts here: some very "human" beings believe they personally have tapped into the Divine conscience. And they are helping direct it! Swell, huh?

It helps to know Scripture to counter these freaks. First of all, Christ said he was the way, the truth and the light. No one can come to "God" except through Christ. If they try to quote anything but Matthew, Mark, Luke or John ( Books in the Bible where Jesus spoke, also called "the Gospels") ask, "what did Jesus say about it?" They like to use Paul quotations. Be prepared.

What Jesus said about government was to render unto the government what belonged to it, and to God what belonged to God. Because the soul belongs to God, no human institution can claim it or attempt to control it.

What he said about the "last days" was that no one knew when they would come, not even Christ. If any man claims to "know" when the last days will come, he is claiming to be higher than Christ!!!!!

Sorry to hijack this thread. But people should counter these fools with what the bible actually says. You don't have to be a Christian to do this.

And I'm glad ole' Bob is hitting Robertson in the gut. HE is the Chief Freak of Freaks.

[glarius]

9. Schieffer's brother was a partner with Bush as owners of Texas Rangers!

This takes him out of the unbiased column...IMO

[indigobusiness]

11. And Bill Bennett's brother was Clinton's lawyer

get a grip

[glarius]

14. Schieffer is in the media where he can effect public opinion

That's the difference....IMO...:)

[SOS]

17. Fair enough,

but when Scheiffer spent half of the third debate on Republican talking points (gays, "faith", affirmative action, abortion) you've got to wonder about his impartiality.

Not one question on the environment or energy policy. Instead he wasted precious time with an idiotic question on whether homosexuality is a choice. :eyes:

[delete_bush]

12. Many families have black sheep

you don't get out much if you think all siblings think alike.

[glarius]

15. My point is that Schieffer as a media person can effect public opinion

nt

[delete_bush]

18. No, your point was that because Schieffer's

brother years ago had a financial interest with * that this somehow produced an ongoing automatic political bias on the part of Schieffer in favor of *. For all you know he's pissed at * for not including him in the deal and is biased in the other direction. I prefer more rational methods for determining bias. For me it's got to be more than DNA.

[glarius]

19. I'm saying there is the possibility of bias and THERE IS!

That's all I'm saying!!!!!!!!!!!!

[indigobusiness]

22. I sense a shifting goal-post

here.

[Jane Austin]

23. My brother was a RW Republican in every way.

I have always been a liberal Democrat.

The only time he was at all equivocal was during Viet Nam. He didn't want to go.

[Doctor_J]

20. OMFG!

since robertson took a swipe at smirk this week, the media bushies are now hitting back at pat? oh, that karma.