CBS' John Roberts is an idiot - last night proved it to me

[Tsiyu]

After an equine-related story last night, John Roberts, last night's goofy anchor for CBS' Maybe-It's-The-News, made a complete ass out of himself.

His quote following the story:

" As Ronald Reagan said, 'The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man.'"

What a yutz! That quote has been attributed to everyone from Winston Churchill to Will Rogers to Lord Palnerstone and was probably originally stated by Xenophan if the truth be told.

One page into Google and any fool would know it was a well-known quote long before Lord and Savior Raygun. Do these people have no research skills or what?

Next we'll find out that Raygun and Diddy Bush actually wrote the bible.

[Mika]

1. How dare you!!

Everyone knows that god himself printed the bible. ;)

:hi:

[Tsiyu]

4. Oh, shoot

I dun fergot! :+

[Benhurst]

2. Shame on you for slandering John Roberts! As Ronald

Reagan once said, "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks."

[Tsiyu]

5. And he invented the phrase "God Bless America"

what a mind! ;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Well in all fairness Bush DID rewrite the bible

does that count?

BTW...is that some kind of beastiality remark? Outside of a horse good for the inside of a man? What will we tell the children? :scared:

[Tsiyu]

7. I didn't see it that way, but now that you mention it

maybe it was a message from the afterlife sent to Bushie Boy! Through John Roberts! Whooooooooooah. * cue Twilight Zone music *:silly:

[Arugula Latte]

13. Mules, horses

"anything warm that vibrates" -- you know how Repubs like their farm animals!

:rofl:

[Tsiyu]

18. Gotta love those "farmily" values!

Teenaged girls don't NEED birth control as long as you let the teenaged boys diddle with the livestock!


:rofl:

[Stirk]

6. He has what the Reagans call a certain, "Je ne sais quoi".

I don't know what that means, though! It's some sort of Reganesque tongue that they wrote all their great literature in.

[Tsiyu]

8. Hey, that was post 777

Cool. You better get busy and get out of the 700 Club, though! :evilgrin:

And your comment (now that I have sufficiently teased you, Stirk):

:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. They didn't?

"Next we'll find out that Raygun and Diddy Bush actually wrote the bible." :silly:

[Tsiyu]

10. Well, maybe they did after all

I won't be shocked if the fundies start claiming so, let's just put it that way!

But what a Reagan suckup Roberts is. FU CBS News....

[lolly]

25. Wow! Reagan and Bush wrote the Bible?

The things I learn here on DU!

But did you guys know that Reagan and Shrub Jr were also great war heroes??

[Tsiyu]

26. yes!

Reagan saw action in the Hollywood Hills and * saw it in many, many heroic lines of cocaine!

[bushcrab]

11. Bob Scheifferbrains is one as well.

They're both spineless Bush supporters. So much for CBS News credibilty.

[Tsiyu]

12. Walked out the door, didn't it?

How do they sleep at night? You just gotta wonder....

Another link about Bush making this same quote:

http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2004/06/does_santorum_k.shtml

[kskiska]

14. Ray-gun got most of his quotes

from the Reader's Digest, and actually convinced himself they were original.

[Tsiyu]

16. No doubt

He convinced John Roberts, too, it seems!

[FreedomAngel82]

15. LOL

Anything to make Reagan look like a Lord. Oy. How disgusting. Let me puke. :puke:

[Tsiyu]

17. I join you in upchucking

I shot the biggest one finger salute to the TV when he said that ( was at a friend's house, so I couldn't change the channel - but he's a Dem friend, so i could shoot the bird...)

There is no depth too low for them to sink

[UTUSN]

19. RAYGUN Was a Fool. His Media Back Then Let Him Slide, Too

The people who knew him best, Hollywood, pegged him as a B-list bore. But his basic training in delivering memorized lines with some believability snookered the country and certainly the media. And the key point, which is applicable to Shrub, is that because he was not completely discredited WHILE IN OFFICE, the defication process ensues, with the "cute" traits becoming LARGE, while the huge flaws are diminished and trivialized. RAYGUN had impeachable offenses but got away with them. If Shrub isn't clearly, unmistakeably discredited WITHIN THE NEXT 3 YEARS, he will likewise be deified.

This ROBERTS dude looks too young to remember RAYGUN. He certainly doesn't pay attention to the continual snippets that RAYGUN had little if any ability to demonstrate grasping of concepts, that his supposed witticism were regurgitated lines from anybody's movies. The country wanted to hear somebody talking convincingly in B-movie language. Same how they like to hear Shrub talk in basic B-movie cowboy talk.

As for this revisionist deification that ROBERTS swallowed whole, it's like Tweety claiming that RAYGUN would give money to individuals with a hard luck story, while (HE claims) Liberals claim to like people IN GENERAL but won't give money out of their pockets. It's Reverand WEEMS crap. Whenever Tweety tells that story, somebody needs to say, "Show me a list of the NAMES of ANY person RAYGUN gave money to." RAYGUN and Nancy raked in millions in gifts and in-kind for personal appearances throughout their fading Hollywood careers.

[UTUSN]

20. E-ltr to [e-mail]

On 06-10-05, John ROBERTS ended an item about horses by attributing the old quote, "There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man" to Ronald REAGAN.

A cursory Google search would turn up that that quote is often attributed to CHURCHILL, but to many other historical figures going back for centuries.

It's too bad that the media that gave REAGAN a free ride and was star struck over him contributed to the next stage, his WEEMsification and canonization, like what is happening with the current BUSH. The scarce tidbits of truth about REAGAN show that some of his best lines were mere recitations from films and other sources like this one.

I hope that CBS News regains its balance after the heavy right wing fire it has endured.

[Tsiyu]

21. Absolutely beautiful

Thank you for composing and sending that e-mail. I confess I am so disgusted with the MSM I don't even try to connect with them anymore. But I'm so thankful to you for calling them on that idiot's "quote."

:yourock:

[Tsiyu]

22. Good description of Our Lord and Savior Raygun

Some people are idiots. His popularity truly proves this.

[nuxvomica]

23. I'm sure folks also credit him for the best line in the Challenger speech

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'

This was lifted by Peggy Noonan from the poem "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee Jr. A beautiful poem, it should have been read in it's entirety at the service.
(see: http://www.ccastronomy.org/high_flight.htm)

[Tsiyu]

24. yes, i remember thinking

that he needed to credit the source. Did he?

But then, he may have believed he actually wrote that poem, so no attribution was necessary :shrug: