The Average Man

Thursday, March 01, 2007

DID BOB SCHIEFFER REALLY SAY THAT?

So, I was reading my daily Studio Briefing this afternoon, and I came across the following little tidbit:

CRONKITE DAMNS ANOTHER WAR
Walter Cronkite, whose criticism of America's Vietnam War policies was said to be a turning point in the war ("If we've lost Walter, then we've lost the country," President Lyndon Johnson reportedly told an aide at the time) has called the war in Iraq "a mistake ... a terrible disaster." In an interview with the CBS television station in San Francisco, the 90-year-old Cronkite said that he doubted that his words would have much impact on the current administration. However he added, "Anybody who can put another match to that fire to get us out would be, I think, welcome." Meanwhile, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, speaking at a conference in Tokyo, criticized the news media for not investigating "on the ground" in Iraq U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. But in an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer, former CBS anchor Bob Schieffer maintained that the U.S. got into the war because "the intelligence was wrong, and they're paying a price for it. [Bush is] a decent and honest man."

Um, are you freakin kidding me! I thought Bob Schieffer was the trustworthy one? What kind of respectable journalist would make such an ignorant statement? And one other thing: we have to stop making this claim that "the intelligence was wrong" (even the DemocratIC Party does this). The intelligence was RIGHT; Rumsfeld and Cheney were WRONG. Bob Schieffer should watch The Dark Side!

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1 Comments:

At 3:39 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

These days, people with brains are filtered out of the "news" media; the more visible they are, the less likely they are to be capable of an independent thought. Exceptions like Keith Olbermann prove the rule -- he got in by way of sports reporting, where his politics weren't scrutinized

 

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