CBS News Schieffer: Zeleny Softball Question was GREAT, “Obama hit it out of the park!”
BY: NCViking
If you had any doubts about the main stream media’s dreamy ‘press-crush‘ on President Obama, you may just become a believer after watching the video below. Zac Efron aint got nothin’ on The One!
In classic slobbering, starry-eyed fashion, Bob Schieffer of CBS News (Washington Unplugged) preconditions his interview with Jeff Zeleny right out of the gate with an absolute expression of love …
“Jeff, I must say it was a GREAT question, but I must also say that he hit it out of the ballpark! Not only out of the ballpark but over the fence and over the house behind the fence!”
Zeleny directly follows by saying, “It’s one of the reasons I asked it …”, thus openly admitting he intended to serve up Obama a ‘softball‘. He went on to compare the timing of the question to a “seventh inning stretch” and posited why not allow the President to stretch a little bit. What? This a press conference and the people need answers to important questions about the decisions he has made, ones he is going to make, explanations for controversial moves made by his administration, and the state of America. It IS NOT the job of the press to give him a breather. Could you imagine Helen Thomas giving Bush a breather? Right. He later tries to justify the question by saying the answers told America a little bit about The One. Wasn’t this what that drawn-out, two-year campaign was for? Does this reporter work for the New York Times or as I stated in an early post, Tiger Beat Magazine? Where is the press?!
Shieffer then goes on to gush even further about his press-crush, and if you look close enough, you might even see the little red cartoon hearts popping out all around him …
“I must say, I am beginning to think that this may be the best guy at a news conference of any president since Jack Kennedy.”
Of course he is the best since Jack Kennedy, a Democrat. Forget about the Republican president who was labeled “The Great Communicator” for his ability to stand for something, express his views and interact with people. A moniker so well known that even the title of this blog is a play off of it.
The press is doing a tremendous disservice to the American people by acting in this way. Bludgeoning one president because of a universally biased opinion against him and his policies, then conversely worshiping another because he is charismatic and embodies their beliefs. They are not acting like journalists, they are acting like ideologues.
Mon Dieu!
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I think you mean “conversely” not adversely, but otherwise your thoughts are a fine example of the tin foil hat crowd that now, in weighing in on the great issues of the day, spends, oh about 93% of its time, decrying the fact that a lot of the network TV guys seem to like the President.
You all are, kind of, just chattering to each other about one topic, a topic which does not appear on the American independent’s or moderate’s radar screen. So, keep it up. I know you will because it keeps the listenership and viewership at the current high levels for certain right wing TV networks and all of the talk radio guys.
They can’t not do what they’re doing, because they will lose listenership, and by continuing to do what they are doing, they turn off huge chunks of actual everyday people, who, more and more, identify the Republican party, with these nattering nabobs of negativism.
A definition of Adversely: Moving in an opposite or opposing direction. Your word does sound better, so I changed it, thanks.
When news on the ‘great issues of the day’ comes grossly tainted through an ideological filter it serves absolutely no one and should be called out, whether doing so appeals to independents or not.
Oh yeah, the definition of “mrrpphh” is “Mr. Grundies with a tenant who has not paid the rent.”
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