Face the Nation's GOP-Fest Allowed Attacks On Liberals, Obama To Go Unanswered
November 07, 2011 9:39 am ET by Eric Boehlert
On this week's Face The Nation, host Bob Schieffer welcomed a "cross-section of Republicans" for a round table about the state of the GOP campaign season. However, the unbalanced format also allowed Republicans to launch attacks on liberals and President Obama without having anyone on the show present to rebut the allegations.
For instance, addressing the Herman Cain sexual harassment allegations, former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie told Schieffer "conservatives believe that liberals" have "a special disdain for black conservatives." He also insisted, "People are fed up with what's going on in Washington and they're frustrated with the Obama economy."
Republican Ken Blackwell attacked the president's "inability to create jobs." And conservative strategist Liz Cheney claimed Americans are "afraid that this president wants higher taxes and more spending and bigger government." (She also insisted Obama had "inherited a victory in Iraq" from president Bush.)
For the record, following the GOP panel discussion, Schieffer then interviewed Republican candidate Jon Huntsman's three daughters, which meant Face the Nation welcomed eight guests to its program this week, seven of which had direct ties to the Republican Party or its campaigns.
The only non-Republican Face the Nation guest? Non-partisan journalist John Dickerson who was addressed just once during the program.
By the way... I don't have "special disdain" for black Conservatives... I have the same disdain for them that I have for all Conservatives.
And finally, when will a member of the "Liberal Media" take a look at the unemployment numbers, and calculate how much of that is due to the massive Teabagger budget cuts in the Public Sector?
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. John Stuart Mill (d. 1873)
I heard somebody the other day ( may have been Bill Maher) use that phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations" with regard to Cain.
It's a phrase that right wingers love to use when talking about Affirmative Action, or social programs, but it seems pretty accurate in this case. The question was raised, if Mitt Romney was unaware of China's nuclear capabilities, would he have been let off as easily by the GOP faithful ?
Liberal media my a*s.
There may be some truth to this, at least on my part. If someone is not smart enough to realize they are being played for fools and working against their own best interest, maybe they deserve some contempt? I would apply that brush to others, too. I talked to a Black politician here in Virginia. He kept saying the more Blacks should be Republican "Value Voters" but he was smart enough to know that Republicans don't just turn off minority voters, sometimes, they just drive them away. He explained that he kept working with them in the hopes of seeing the mistakes they were making and making some changes, but he was often disappointed. I think he chose the Republicans because it was a much smaller pond and he could be a bigger fish.
Cain's platform would aid the wealth at the expensive of the middle class and the poor. Focus on that.
all you need to see are the ads on these shows for the mega multi nationals, no wonder they need their spokeholes to fill the time....
This has been going on since Clinton became President.
And I don't believe it's because they're "afraid of being accused of liberal bias", either.
Follow the money. The rightward swing in our politics over the last few decades has directly benefited the bottom lines of our wealthy pundit class and the incredibly wealthy few who sign their paychecks.
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What do you think the odds of that are?