first!

Funny. I like Bob.

CBS made pseudo-journalist-kewpie doll Katie Couric their nightly news anchor instead of a credible professional like Bob Schieffer. Doesn't that really tell us everything we need to know about the quality of reporting the main stream media is dedicated to providing the public?

Barry Halpern @ 5:

CBS made pseudo-journalist-kewpie doll Katie Couric their nightly news anchor instead of a credible professional like Bob Schieffer. Doesn't that really tell us everything we need to know about the quality of reporting the main stream media is dedicated to providing the public?

Spot on Barry. Schieffer is one of few major journalists with integrity anymore.

why isn't he hosting the evening news?

oh yea, being credible isn't as important as being "perky"

I love it! Bob is one of the most respected journalists in the world. I just wish he could decide who gets to debate and who doesn't.

Katie should have been required to do a version of the Russian "nude news" Then her ratings might have gone up. Of course with her sagging assets they would soon after fallen too.. :mrgreen:

This is funny when Colbert does it, but then he's parodying the news media analysts like Schieffer. When Bob does it it's just pathetic.

Really, the failure of the media coverage isn't that they called the race wrong. Calling races is a job for a bookie. 14All @ 6 has it exactly right: his job isn't to predict, it's to report. And what they're not discussing throughout all of the talk on strategy is the issues that the candidates are supposedly running on. Except, of course, with regard to how those stances affect their status in the polls.

I like Bob (some of the time) but what is up with everyone in the media's obsession about the tongue ring? I just picture these idiots trying to come up with ways to ask their wives to get tongue rings...but then they would also have to ask their wives for oral sex too and that's probably not going to happen! Why do you think old white men are so up tight all the time?

14All @ 6:

Mr. Schieffer, it's not your job to predict--it's your job to report!

I blame Walter Cronkite. He was the first News Pundit, giving his views instead of just delivering the news.

Kucinich is going nowhere, principally because the media has done everything in its power to make sure he didn't have a voice. It's not Kucinich the man, it's the message, or the warning, that Kucinich brought to the table. The media is making sure that anybody who is talking about defending the constitution, restoring liberties, protecting citizens from the unbridled power of a police state which operates without restraints or regard for the law, anulling corporate america's de facto confiscation of our government and giving it back to the people and so on are all silenced. The media gives the greatest air time and most favorable coverage to corporatists and has, by such means, done a real bang up job at controlling the dialogue and directing the national debate (such as debate can exist with them trying to orchestrate every aspect of it).

Yes, other candidates are talking about very important issues, without a doubt. But, those issues - however vital and important they in fact are - are all still of secondary importance, relative to the first-things-first issues: The US is slipping into totalitarianism by means of a thousand baby steps. If that process isn't halted and reversed, America, as a democracy and place of liberty and freedom, is inevitably going to be toast. None of the front-runners will address any of these issues, and we are left with no idea at all how, or if, they intend to fix things. Because the media has apparently prohibited the topic from being mentioned or discussed, the media has done all voters a grave disservice. This tells us all we need to know about where the five corporations that control the broadcast and print media stand....for what and to whom they have given their loyalties.

The media people who are actually talking about issues that imperil the continued existence of liberal democracy are literally a handful of token voices, all of them denied prime venues from which to speak. Their voices, reason and warnings are easily drowned out by the din and cacaophony of manipulative lies, propaganda and disinformation being passed off as news and analyses. Even NPR has turned to the darkside and can no longer be trusted.

If it has done anything at all, the current coverage and analyses of the campaign - especially the debates, has proven that the media is no friend of democracy or liberty.

kudos to that old guy who tells me whats happening to other people.

but he ripped off colbert!!

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Well, Bob, if you're happy with a .500 batting average, join a senior underhand softball league. It's one thing to report, and another thing to opine. But when you try to sway people's opinions by making "predictions" based on the way the MSM would like things to end up because it's the narrative THEY prefer, then you have no business doing anything news-related.

How many people were on his little show that opposed the Iraq War ? How many have been on representing rich, white, conservative males 50 - 75% of his guests . How many have been on representing the Council of Foreign Relations , these one world , one dollar con artists ?

Give me a break , once the wheels came off bush's wagon, sure he changed his tune, because it was hard to even think about defending his actions and right now it takes no real courage to point out his " meeestakes " , at the same time avoiding the crimes bush has committed .

Schieffer is part of the establishment , and has totally ignored a very large segment of our society and the same people who critisize bush now for his "meeestakes" , still avoid the words OCCUPATION and War Profiteering .
The Iraq war was more than a mistake , it was a CRIME and when has bobby challenged John McCain for saying 'we will be in Iraq for 100 years ", if we have to , totally ignoring what Iraqis want , totally contradicting this BS notion they push, that they are bringing "democracy to Iraq " .

What progressive voices has Bobby given equal time ,to voice a different opinion ?

I stopped watching CBS when Schieffer was replaced by Couric, but I'm not CBS's target audience anyway. I do think occasionally, and that puts me outside their demographic.

Bob has some great moments, and he earns points for this one.

Finally, Schieffer gets someone intelligent to talk to, and he blows the interview.

The message from the MSM to you is:

We know we're full of shit.

We don't care.

We think its funny.

Bob said, "So, we’re batting more than .500 here - in baseball, that’s great.”

This isn't baseball.
Helen Thomas said it best. You can't even make one mistake.

Formidable Opponent. that was great

lambchops @ 12:

Why couldn't he get anyone else to interview? How can anyone take him seriously? This is just silly pretentiousness in my opinion.

Which I believe is the point he is trying to make. It's also funny.

That was funny. I come from the UK where the use of satire is common. I have noticed that here in the USA many people simply don't understand satire at all. Comments on Redstate Update typically show that at least 50% of the posters actually think that it is for real. Why is satire so poorly understood in America? Can someone tell me?

Paul in LA, I am quite willing to believe the vote in 04 was rigged but I don't think the Clintons would get up to that sort of thing. Nevertheless it does appear that there will be a recount. So lets keep calm until we know all the facts, shall we.

I miss the days when the anchors of the big three networks commanded respect. Schieffer had no trouble pointing out how silly the MSM looks and Tom Brokaw had no trouble saying the MSM failed the night of the New Hampshire primary. I guess it's the old school journalists who still remember what journalism is. Today we're stuck with Katie Couric who I won't even call a journalist.