WOW! Did you just hear Bob Schieffer's comment at the end of his show?

[napi21]

He was talking about gov't service must be the worst thing in the world affecting peoples memories. Libby couldn't remember anything, Sr. people at Justice can't remember who they talked to or why they did things. It went on for several minutes, and at the very end he said "you can tell by the smell, and this one STINKS to high heaven! Those responsiblemust be held accountable and they MUST GO!"

[bullimiami]

1. well bob, stop mincing words. its bush, rove and cheney. its how they operate.

[blm]

26. It's how they operated since 1993, and Schieffer only now decided to notice.

Thanks for not noticing their lies in 2000. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, Bob. Your country needed more truth back then when we had the best opportunity to STOP them.

[Skittles]

35. THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am SICK of these folk now acting like they just discovered that repukes are the scum of the earth - their smarminess and corruption goes back a long, LONG way (WAY BEFORE 2000 BY THE WAY) and I refuse to give kudos to those stupid, ignorant f***s JUST NOW pulling their HEAD OUT OF THEIR ASS

[Morgana LaFey]

39. Amen, sister

I suppose it's a good thing he's FINALLY waking up, but boy I hope he's able to wipe all the brown off his nose.

[ClassWarrior]

2. That's big, coming from that ho.

NGU.

[skooooo]

11. sheiffer is not a "ho"

[kittykitty]

29. You're right1 He has always been fair, but outspoken!

[kath]

36. Hah! Don't you remember the stupid softball questions he asked Chimpyshit

during the Presidential "debate" that he moderated? Sure seemed like a Bush buttlicker to me, and to many others here.

[karlrschneider]

38. I'm not at all sure he thought up the questions. Hell's bell's, we are NEVER

going to get a newsperson/pundit/commentator/reporter/etc. who's gonna be 100% "right", 100% of the time.
Can't we give a little credit when they actually do their job properly?
:eyes:

[karynnj]

49. selecting the questions was the biggest part of that job

- I'm more concerned if he didn't write the questions - because if so "who did?"

[samsingh]

44. i remember those soft questions he asked bush

and that's why i don't like shieffer.

[karynnj]

48. Not to mention he had NO evironmental or energy question

which you would expect in the Domestic debate.

Kerry had a major, well developed campaign issue linking these - and both were Bush liabilities.

[Digit]

3. Yep, I heard him!

And I agree that it DOES stink to high-heaven.
:applause:

[napi21]

4. Of course it does,but that was really strong stuff coming from Bob! n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

5. Bob was one of the first to question the chimp way back when his approval

was above 50. He said, "Can anything this administration says be taken at face value?" Sounds small now, but that was when every car had a flag and no member of the chimp's admin suffered any questioning.

Bob must have taken alot of crap back then, and now, he's finally getting vindication.

Bob's a great journalist. I just hope there are some real journalists out there ready to pick up where he'll leave off.

[chelsea0011]

8. He's one of the better journalists. I don't understand the negative

comments here. Could be they don't watch him regularly. He was shown at the Ailes non-joke fest last week and he didn't appear to amused at Ailes and his awful jokes.

[Blackhatjack]

6. It is a process... when the MSM starts inserting Bush/Cheney names in their comments, then we know

the wave is not building, but beginning to crash down upon them.

[durtee librul]

7. Awhile back

I sent him an email and got a personal response. I told him I thought all newsmen had their collective heads up their collective a**es and he was the first one to put his head up his.

The response I got back was one understandably of denial and outrage. I then emailed him back with examples and the response from him then was of, "we'll see who has their head up their a**."

I should email him back with a copy of that initial email and ask him if he'd like a roll of tp now.

But it's too little too late. The media see the Nov results, they see (and knew) the scandals and the trampling of our rights and ONLY when the public ousted the majority in Nov did they deem it necessary to jump on our bandwagon. John Q Public is listening to the Cindy Sheehan's, the Code Pink and all the other organizations, plus they are feeling the pain of losing community members in this war.

Repect? I don't respect anyone. My momma always taught me that respect is earned and not given. Wise woman.

M$M - what a laughable joke they all have become. Now they want us to take them seriously? Howard Kurtz on CNN this morning asked if the media was making too much out of the firings and why the press was hounding the AG. Well, howie you damn fool - I'll tell ya (and I did, I fired off an email to CNN)....YOU'RE ALL WHORES. You may not keep a little black book with names and numbers and preferences, but you are total whores of another nature and you have allowed the general public of this great country to be 'educated' by the likes of Bill O'lielly and faux news.

Heaven forbid if you all would have had enough balls to ask these 'tough' questions 4 years ago. There would have 3200 plus 600,000 Iraqis still alive and who knows what just one of those may have contributed to this world of ours had their life not been cut short.

I think we not only need an entire new government, but we also need to cleanse the ranks of those who are responsible for reporting TRUTH no matter how ugly or politcally 'uncorrect' it may seem at the time. Let us, the American people, decide. Just give us the facts.

So to reiterate Mr Schieffer's remark of it stinking...my only response to him would be, Yep Bobby you're right. You ALL do stink and you all should go.

[IWantAChange]

47. durtee - could you post Uncle Bob's email address?

[saltpoint]

9. Every comment demanding accountability builds critical mass in

our favor.

Schieffer's included.

I saw now reason to show Schieffer the door in favor of Katie Couric, but then I don't run CBS News.

If I did, Schieffer would still be the anchor.

His Commentaries at the end of his program position news events in ways the average voter might reconsider his or her perspective. And they're valuable for that reason.

Good for Bob Schieffer.

[texanshatingbush]

17. I agree with you on Schieffer.....

he's someone I trust, he's been a breath of fresh air for a long time, I wish we could clone him and infuse more like him into the MSM. I read his autobiography a while back and found it most interesting.

PS: I stopped watching CBS when they replaced Schieffer with Couric--what a misstep for CBS!

[saltpoint]

20. Hi, texanshatingbush. (Great screen name, by the way)

Schieffer has been right most of the time on this administration. And the public trusts his voice in a way it never quite trusted Dan Rather's.

Couric's not the worst thing on tv, but I'm with you -- why replace Schieffer for her when he was doing so well? Couric's ratings are way down from Schieffer's, and the news isn't nearly as good.

[Pastiche423]

30. CBS's second misstep

was firing the producer of katie's show instead of katie!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_en_bu/tv_cbs_kaplan

[July]

10. Though I think BS is a better journalist than many of his colleagues,

I lost all respect for him when I saw him on television, on the steps of some D.C. building, with a hot-off-the-presses Starr report, riffling through it to find and paraphrase the salacious bits. That disgusted me.

[napi21]

15. I hated the WHOLE Pub/Starr mess too, but in fairness to BS,

that WAS the NEWS OF THE DAY. As a reporter and a journalist, he would have been derelict if he hadn't reported on it.

[July]

53. Oh, he had to report it.

He didn't have to report in quite that way, however.

His report, like everyone else's, was not about possible crimes but about whatever he could find in the SR that sounded "dirty" (and the "dirty" stuff was not a crime). Watching him try to find a way to describe the titillating bits in a way that wouldn't provoke an FCC fine was painful. I was embarrassed for him. I also saw him as I saw the rest of the press: water carrier for malicious people. Starr made sure his report was GOP porn, so that all that non-criminal information on Clinton would get out to the general public and (he hoped) fatally wound Clinton.

[npincus]

12. I wish CBS would pull Couric and put him back on

the nightly news.

[annabanana]

25. BIG ditto there npincus!. . . . . .n/t

[DAMANgoldberg]

52. Won't happen...

$15 million reasons why.

[AwakeAtLast]

13. 5th k & r for you!

Thank you for posting - my daughter needed my immediate attention and I missed his comments.

:kick:

[Skip Intro]

14. There MUST be accountability.

We can't just abandon that, as a country, as a people, just say, "oh well" and allow it to go unchalleneged.


We can't just let it go by, justice, accountablility, is paramount in a just society.



Didn't see the comment, thanks for th relay though. Glad to hear something like that was just said to a national audience.

[young_at_heart]

16. I miss Bob as the anchor......very classy guy!

He was the perfect anchor and today's statement confirms why our family liked him so much.....thank you Bob, for having courage and integrity.

[helderheid]

18. me too - love him!

[texanshatingbush]

19. I second your thanks fo Mr Schieffer.....

Now that I think about it, it occurs to me that Bob Schieffer and Bill Moyers are cut from the same cloth----willing to speak truth to power, as they say.

[peacetalksforall]

21. Which smell was he talking about? Plame WIlson leak? Or

US Atty firings? Or?

[napi21]

22. I think he was referring to the Atty firings this time. n/t

[GETPLANING]

23. Scheiffer is one of the few respectable journalists

out there. He has walked the fine line of telling the truth and keeping his job as anchor of his show. I have listened to many of his editorials and wondered how much longer he would last before the bashers on the right would descend on him.

[JohnnyLib2]

24. I've heard him point out the ludicracy several times now, on

various points. What is it that some DUers don't like? (straight question here)

Recommended

[Infomaniac]

27. A new disorder affecting memory: Busheimer's

John Stewart said recently on a show that Libby had the "memory of a goldfish." This stinks alright. And I am so delighted that * is digging in his heels about firing Gonzo. That will keep the fire burning under the MSM who smell blood.

[WillyT]

28. Link Here:

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/18/opinion/schieffer/main2581884.shtml

I gave Bob hell for this one last week though: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/11/opinion/schieffer/main2556750.shtml

C'mon Bob, pay attention.

:shrug:

[Bozita]

41. Thanks for the transcript.

Good stuff.

[BlooInBloo]

31. And it's SPECIFIC TO REPUBLICANS too - how very odd indeed.

[peacetalksforall]

32. I think we should USE Schieffer's words SMELL and STINK.

They are fitting. And they came from someone who usually does their bidding of obfuscating and defending the right wing. I think we should even give him credit for the words. He only gets 1/2 hour on Sunday morning with a lot of competition. Let's elevate the truth.

[bobbolink]

33. His commentary after Katrina was BLISTERING!

He doesn't mince words when he is confronting this misadministration.

I think we have to realize that we are going to have to take the good with the bad. Yes, I get discouraged when someone who has previously been right-on seems to back track, but other than emailing them, there isn't much I can do. So, I just thank then when they "get it right".

Shieffer has "gotten it right" several times.

I appreciate him for that.

[Nimrod2005]

34. Can't wait for Imus in the morning, in the morning tomorrow...!!!

He loves Bob, and he is really hating the Bush crime family..

[emilyg]

37. Good for Him

True words.

[kerstin]

40. I agree.

And let me be the first to congratulate you on your first DU post, emilyg!

[renate]

46. welcome to DU!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

50. Hi emilyg!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[kmla]

51. Welcome to DU, emilyg!

You'll like it here.

We're pretty nice. Most of the time, at least...

:hi:

[Cobalt-60]

42. Too many spliffs circulating in the DOJ, I guess

You know how that affects the memory!

[Nite Owl]

43. It isn't those in government service

its Republicans in public service. The connection must be made that it is the way that conservatives do things, they hate government and they are there only to use it for their needs only.

[alfredo]

45. The video

see "Schieffer on Accountability."


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/18/ftn/main2581896.shtml

[tehehehe]

54. Its called "doing the Cronkite" by journalists. n/t