http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/FTN_0605... Quantitative Analysis of Face the Nation, June 5GOVERNOR HALEY BARBOUR
R-Mississippi
REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI
D-California; House Democratic Leader
InterruptionsNumber of times host Bob Schieffer cut off and cut in on guest:
Barbour—1
Pelosi—8
Confrontational responses to statementsBarbour—0
Pelosi—12
Response to Barbour’s long, involved conspiracy theory that Obama wants high gas and oil prices and has deliberately pushed prices up to spur green sources and cut down demand:
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right.
Response to Pelosi that Obama & Dems have successfully stimulated the economy:
BOB SCHIEFFER: But the President has been there two-and-a-half years.
BOB SCHIEFFER: I mean, why hadn’t he done that yet?
BOB SCHIEFFER: What’s happened?
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Well, what are you going to do?
BOB SCHIEFFER: But the fact is the Congress has been in session since January and it’s done basically nothing.
REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI: Well you can talk to Mister Boehner about that.
BOB SCHIEFFER: So it’s all their fault, it’s not your fault?
BOB SCHIEFFER: Do you think you’re any closer to coming some kind-- some kind of agreement with the Republicans on anything right now than say, you were in January?
REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI: Well, I would certainly hope so because we--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): And when would be that be?
BOB SCHIEFFER: I’m asking you about now with-- with respect--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): I think they (the American people) want to hear about the now.
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): I think they want to hear about the now. I think they want to know why aren’t you doing anything now. I mean we keep talking about well we don’t want to talk about the past. We have to talk about the future. But in the meantime in between time, nothing is getting done.
REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI (overlapping): Well, it--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Nobody is agreeing with anybody on anything.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Don’t you-- let me just interrupt you. Don’t you have to though give some plan or some idea of how you’re going to reform Medicare
Favorable or Unfavorable framing of the issues by hostTo Barbour, BOB SCHIEFFER: Let me ask you about Medicare and what Paul Ryan said. He says I mean, I think everyone concedes, we’re going to have to do something about Medicare, it’s going to have to have some serious reforms, it’s going to go broke in its present state.
Analysis: This is very favorable frame for the CON position. A major question in the issue “how sustainable is Medicare funding?” has just been ceded to the CON position with the answer “not very.” This is a text book example of question begging.
To Pelosi, BOB SCHIEFFER: Let me ask you a little bit about Medi-- Medicare. Obviously as we all know the House Republicans want to replace it with government-subsidized private insurance. Can Democrats win in 2012 by just saying “no” to that?
Analysis: This is a loaded question, like “have you stopped beating your spouse?” It implies that the Republicans have a plan and the Democrats have nothing except to oppose it. It implies that the Democrats will play politics to win an election rather than trying to solve the “obvious unsustainability” of Medicare.
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And there is your "fair and balanced" MSM interview . . .
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