Bob Schieffer calls Bush, Cheney and Gates liars on Face the Nation

[Hamlette]

he starts his comment by quoting the line from A Few Good Men "you can't handle the truth" which seems to be, he says, what this administration believes, so they lie to us like when they say: "stuff happens" "mission accomplished" "the good news is just not being reported" "enormous success". Then he told the story of the he botched report on "how our troops are dying" (the 4 troops) "the journalists who had pieced together the right story, were told their version was innacurate" and says Gates claims he was unaware of the new information as late as an hour before the true story got out. (Clearly, Bob does NOT believe Gates.)

He concludes by saying this administration says "public criticism hurts the war effort, but it is being damanged much more by its own loss of credibility.... Truth is the foundation of democracy. Americans can handle the truth. They demand it. History shows when they fail to get it, they fail to follow their leaders no matter the cause. They are more likely to just change leaders."

Bob gets it right sometimes and can be pretty forceful.

[halobeam]

1. He began his show with stating "hundreds of thousands marched"

He is forceful when he is mad.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Oh, so now it's hundreds of thousands?

:) Sounds a little different than what I was hearing yesterday.

[halobeam]

4. Yes, I've been SEARCHING for an accurate account.

We finally got one. (In the MSM that is)

[Captain Hilts]

39. Faux gave us credit for 100K, so we must have had 200K. nt

[MissWaverly]

3. I saw Gwen Ifill steaming on Washington Week

about that Friday news dump stategy revealed by the Libby trial, she says that whenever
news happens, we will report it here at PBS. They are steaming over this manipulation
by this current administration. I don't think they will be dealing with lapdogs anymore,
more like pit bulls.

[rodeodance]

8. i think Gwen does good work.

[MissWaverly]

11. I like her too, she does a credible job

and when she is fed up it is for a credible reason unlike Hannity, or Rush.

[anitar1]

34. She is ok. n/t

[tblue37]

38. I don't! She goes on and on about being BFF with Condi Rice, and Condi says

what a great cook Gwen is and Gwen and Condi go over to each other's houses for din din.

Bleah.

Gwen has been carrying water for this misadministration all along.

Right now some of the lapdog reporters are pretending to be upset at evidence that they have been used by BushCo. They aren't upset at having been used. They are whores who were all too glad to be used and then invited to all the best dinner parties.

What they are upset about is that the public is being told, so now they have to put on a show of being upset.

What a load of bull caca.

[Grateful for Hope]

13. I like the sound of that!

Hi MissWaverly...haven't seen you for a while. Hope all is well!

:hi:

[MissWaverly]

15. Yes, I am okay, I am always here

just don't post as much, I wrote my senator Barbara Mikulsi, 2 weeks ago about this
ongoing Iraq and Grand War on Terror, thingee. I am hoping they will start to put
brakes on you know who, and I am keenly following the Libby trial.

Did you know that 13 times during the State of Union address, Joe Lieberman was the
only Democrat applauding Bush, I heard it on Faux news this morning.
:-)

[Grateful for Hope]

16. No I had not heard this

13 times? Wow, this says a lot! Too bad the other networks haven't reported on this.

This would be a good item to send to Keith O!

[MissWaverly]

26. Yes, I think so too

it was on the Fox News Sunday at 9:00 am

[MissWaverly]

30. I just sent an e-mail to the countdown show

:-)

[Grateful for Hope]

44. Excellent!!! n/t

[leftchick]

23. Gwen Loves Condi

and vice verce...

..... AMY GOODMAN: You also write about Gwen Ifill and Condoleezza Rice.


ERIC BOEHLERT: Right, they are good friends. Condoleezza Rice said at a function, talked about how they'd had dinner together, and Gwen Ifill was such a great cook, and this was right at the time when Condoleezza Rice was in -- got in trouble for not being up to speed, not reading an entire N.I.E. report. This was the whole Joe Wilson, aluminum tubes from Africa, and her explanation at the time was, ‘well, I didn't read the whole report,’ but within weeks she had told Gwen Ifill two completely different explanations. But Gwen Ifill didn't ask her the obvious follow-up question: ‘Did you read the report or did you not?’ And again, the fact that they're buddies and have a close social friendship, maybe it explains it. I don't know what else explains the sort of timidity that we've seen.


http://members.aol.com/gopbias/boehlert.html

This makes Gwen a bigger GOP M$M whore than most.

[MissWaverly]

27. I respect her a lot

I have a friend who has seen her on the talk show cycle, the nastiness that she has to
tolerate from the right wing nutjobs is immense, so maybe she did not follow up on one
line of questioning, that doesn't make her a bad reporter, she has put up with a lot
of crap with grace and dignity.

[leftchick]

28. did you miss the part about her BEING FRIENDS WITH CONDI?

how in the hell can she be an unbiased reporter with that kind of a background? OMG! I am shocked at the complicity of the M$M bias and equally shocked it is not shared by all. :crazy:

[MissWaverly]

29. I think the house of cards is falling now

the Libby trial will expose the control of the media by the White House, I think that's
the only thing that will change the current system, it's the augean stables, the government
has made the press into a propaganda arm, this is wrong, we are seeing this from the outside.

[goclark]

31. Gwen Ifill is a lapdog for Condi Rice nt

[JerseygirlCT]

32. That's all good, but it doesn't explain how completely

stupid you'd have to be not to have seen this before.

Where were the media? How were they not seeing what we've been seeing here for so long?

Geez, I took the Friday news dump to be such a matter of public knowledge... I never thought twice about it. And anyone in the media is surprised?

[MissWaverly]

33. well, they probably thought it was a coincidence

which those crazy bloggers said was a conspiracy, but it turns out we were right, we
were right about many things:

the rigged election of 2000
9-11, pre-analytical and post-analytical
manipulation of reporters either by favored treatment, leaked info, etc.
the march to war in Iraq
the rigged election of 2004
the swiftboaters
the rigged recount of 2004
the Plame incident and the cover-up
Katrina

and there's probably a hundred or so other things that we were right about.

:-)

[JerseygirlCT]

35. Oh those wacky liberal bloggers and their tin-foil hats! nt

[MissWaverly]

36. Hey, they never thought we would never shut up, never stop &

never quit posting about 2000, etc. It was the biggest mistake they made.

:-)

[JerseygirlCT]

37. Gosh, let's hope!

It's such a strange feeling after so many years to actually have a bit of that (hope) though.

[MissWaverly]

45. when they tried to use the Supreme Court to steal 2000

we should have pushed back hard, what were they going to do as a follow-up to that, that
told us right there we were headed for troubled waters, if we had demanded that Congress intervene by ringing the phone off the wall in Congressional offices and faxing and marching
and writing anyone with power that this intervention was outside the constitution and asked them to act, we would be a lot better off right now.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

42. They are pretending to be surprised at the tactics revealed by the Libby trial

Geez, I took the Friday news dump to be such a matter of public knowledge... I never thought twice about it. And anyone in the media is surprised?

They aren't surprised, they are simply exposed as being complicit in the PR machinations of the White House spin machine. This faux surprise is for the average person who is not aware of how corrupt M$M has been.

[trudyco]

41. Like they never figured this out on their own? DU did - nt

[Supersedeas]

43. Once exposed, the Gwens feel a need to do their jobs....now.

[politicasista]

5. Whatever

Too bad he couldn't do that during the third presidential debate in 2004. Instead, he threw softball questions to Bush rather than hardball questions to hold him accountable.

[Diane R]

10. Thank you. I was just going to post the same thing. He let bush play his 'Good Christian' card.

[liberalnurse]

6. I hope someone

can post a video of that. I forgot to Tivo! :banghead:

[rodeodance]

7. the WH has the 'father knows best" mentality Bob.

He concludes by saying this administration says "public criticism hurts the war effort, but it is being damanged much more by its own loss of credibility.... Truth is the foundation of democracy. Americans can handle the truth. They demand it. History shows when they fail to get it, they fail to follow their leaders no matter the cause. They are more likely to just change leaders."

[Chipper Chat]

9. I watched CBS News every night when Bob was "subbing."

He had the most credibility among the three "major" networks. Too bad they dumped him for Kutie Katie.

[JohnnyLib2]

12. Shades of Cronkite and Viet Nam---

and ol' Bob knows that, too.

[DemReadingDU]

14. here is the link

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/28/opinion/schieffer/main2405058.shtml

[Verde]

20. That was awsome! and check out the comments.

Mostly in favor of ending the war.

Plus, if you can put up with the advertisements, Webb comes up as well. I missed this this morning and it's great to find the video.

[Delphinus]

25. Off topic, but ...

Welcome to DU Verde! :hi:

[devilgrrl]

17. No more golf outings with GHWB for you Mr. Schieffer!

:spank:

[blm]

18. Shame on everyone who keeps the truth AWAY from the American people. Lies and coverups

for lies will always come back and hurt our nation.

[bdamomma]

19. our media is doing a great disservice to Americans, our next

focus should be on our media, but they are in the back pockets of this slimy sleazy regime.

[saltpoint]

21. Bob was being charitable. n/t

[blogslut]

22. I like Bob Schieffer

He's old school. It really pissed me off that they threw him aside for Couric.

[tabasco]

24. There's a BFO if I ever saw one.

Blinding flash of the obvious, but kudos to Scheiffer for telling the truth.

:patriot:

[jazzjunkysue]

40. Bob was my avatar after he asked: "Can anything said by this administration

be taken at face value?"

He's been the one honest clear thinking anchor from the beginning.

Keep it up, Bob. You're a true patriot.