Schieffer Shilling for McCain Again
Last week, we saw CBS’ Bob Schieffer getting visibly upset when Wes Clark respectfully questioned McCain’s qualifications for president. This week, Schieffer seems to be tipping his pro-McCain hand even more:
Sen. KERRY: He said, you know, you can’t–I have to tell you, Bob, I just came back from the Middle East. I just met with the king of Saudi Arabia. I met with President Mubarak of Egypt. I met with others. You know what they said to me? They said, `You, America, have served up to Iran, Iraq on a platter.’ They are outraged by this sort of, you know, ineptitude of what has been done by those who decided it was smart to go into Iraq.SCHIEFFER: Let me just ask you one question here.
Sen. KERRY: And they have turned away–yeah.
SCHIEFFER: Before we–before–because we are going to talk about–are you now challenging Senator McCain’s integrity?
Go ahead, read the interview (PDF) and tell me how the hell Schieffer could possibly defend asking a question like that at a point in the discussion they were at? Kerry was clearly not talking about McCain’s integrity; Schieffer was baldly shilling for McCain, portraying Kerry’s statements as some kind of a vicious personal attack. Lots of stuff like that presents itself in the interview, such as introducing Kerry as a “big supporter” of Obama, but not opening his talk with his other guest–a McCain campaign co-chair–with the same note, a disparity which makes Kerry appear more biased. Even the topic of the whole interview–how Obama is “flip-flopping” on Iraq when he is in fact being consistent with what he’s been saying for a long time–betrays a good amount of pro-McCain bias.
This on the “liberal” CBS.
Yeah, I think the media is out and out lying about Obama’s position on Iraq. He said we’d have to be as careful getting out as we were getting in.
I don’t understand people like Schaeffer. I cought the round table at the ABC version of all that, and Ted Koeple and some guy from Time magazine were both saying that Obama had done a major policy shift and in the case of Koepple, said that he would have to.
I don’t get it. These people aren’t stupid. I don’t see how you can have even a remedial knowledge of civics, let alone, these guys background, and come down on McCain’s side, or the conservative/republican side.
These guys are journalist. That means they journal public events for the public, yet they can’t recognize a train wreck right before their very eyes?
This all goes back to the saying of Upton Sinclair’s, to the extent, “It’s hard for a person to be objective when their paid by people who have a bias view” or some such thing (he said it much better than that).
These people are deliberately misleading the public. This isn’t a plausible mistake, or just shilling for the other guy, or like in the case of Edwards, simply ignoring him.
That’s why I say, Obama needs every cent he gets. He has to buy media to present the facts. When paid advertisements show the facts, such as Obama saying in July 2007, that we would have to be as careful getting out of Iraq as getting – then near respectible types will not repeat the lie because they directly contradict the fact. And if its on video tape then they look like Schaeffer shilling for McCain.
Still shocking. These are journalist lying on behalf a flawed civics. The deserve to be burned at the stake. Or perhaps, have to live a year in Iraq as a house guest of a family that might have to swallow a bomb being dropped on them.
The inhumanity of these people is shocking.