Sour Schieffer Scolds Cain for Ad: ‘It’s Not Funny to Me...I Don’t Think It Serves the Country Well’
CBS’s Bob Schieffer unintentionally played the foil to Herman Cain on Sunday’s Face the Nation as Schieffer expressed his politically-correct displeasure with Cain’s “downright bizarre” Web video which briefly shows Cain’s chief of staff smoking, was flummoxed by Cain’s sense of humor (“You also said at one point that you might want to back that fence up with a moat and fill it with alligators. Was that a joke too?”) and was baffled by Cain’s accurate claim Planned Parenthood was spurred by the eugenics movement’s desire to reduce the black population.
On the ad, Schieffer decried how “it sends a signal that it’s cool to smoke” before he scolded Cain: “Well, let me just tell you, it’s not funny to me....I don't think it serves the country well, and this is an editorial opinion here, to be showing someone smoking a cigarette.” (video below)
He continued his lecture: “You're the frontrunner now and it seems to me as frontrunner you would have a responsibility not to take that kind of a tone in this campaign. I would suggest that perhaps as the frontrunner, you’d want to raise the level of the campaign.”
Seeing omniscient powers in Cain, Schieffer demanded: “Why don’t you take it off the Internet.”
When Cain said he’d have “no problem saying” people should not smoke, Schieffer insisted: “Well, say it right now.” Cain complied.
Audio: MP3 clip which matches the video
Over on Meet the Press, NBC’s Tom Brokaw was just as appalled, offering his derogatory definition of Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan:
I was stunned by that ad that he did with his campaign manager ending up smoking a cigarette which, in my judgment, is one of the great health hazards in America in terms of lethal diseases and also the costs of it all. I think that maybe 9-9-9- stands for you’ve got nine months to live with lung cancer, nine months to live with emphysema, nine months to live with coronary artery disease. I can’t imagine why they thought that was an effective image.
Schieffer later treated Cain’s accurate recitation of the motivations behind Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger as some kind of bizarre notion: “There was at one point back there when the question of Planned Parenthood came up and you said that it was not planned parenthood, it was really planned genocide because you said Planned Parenthood was trying to put all these centers into the black communities because they wanted to kill black babies before they were born. You still stand by that?”
When Cain said he does, Schieffer demanded: “Do you have any proof that that was the objective of Planned Parenthood?”
From the Sunday, October 30 Face the Nation:
BOB SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about the ad that we just saw at the top of this broadcast. I just want to show you -- and I will preface that by saying the person doing the talking here is your campaign manager Mark Block.
HERMAN CAIN: Chief of staff, yes.
SCHIEFFER: Just listen to this.
MARK BLOCK IN CAIN VIDEO: We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen but then America has never seen a candidate like Herman Cain. We need you to get involved because together we can do this. We can take this country back. [SINGER: I am America, one voice united we stand. I am America, one hope to heal our land.]
SCHIEFFER: Mr. Cain, I have to ask you what is the point of that? Having a man smoke a cigarette in a television commercial for you?
CAIN: One of the themes within this campaign is let Herman be Berman. Mark Block is a smoker. We say let Mark be Mark. That's all we're trying to say because we believe let people be people. He doesn't deny that he's a smoker.
SCHIEFFER: Are you a smoker?
CAIN: No I'm not a smoker. But I don't have a problem if that's his choice. So let Herman be Herman, let Martin be Martin. Let people be people. This wasn't intended to send any subliminal signal whatsoever.
SCHIEFFER: But it does. It sends a signal that it’s cool to smoke.
CAIN: No it does not. Mark Block smokes. That's all that ad says. We weren’t trying to say it’s cool to smoke. We have a lot of people in this country that smoke, but what I respect about Mark as a smoker, who is my chief of staff, he never smokes around me or smokes around anyone else. He goes outside.
SCHIEFFER: But he smokes on television.
CAIN: Well, he smokes on television. But there was no other subliminal message.
SCHIEFFER: Was this meant to be funny?
CAIN: It was meant to be informative. If they listen to the message where he said America has never seen a candidate like Herman Cain. That was the main point of it. The bit on the end we didn't know whether it would be funny to some people or whether they were going to ignore it or whatever the case may be.
SCHIEFFER: Well, let me just tell you, it's not funny to me. I am a cancer survivor like you.
CAIN: I am also.
SCHIEFFER: I had cancer that was smoking related. I don't think it serves the country well, and this is an editorial opinion here, to be showing someone smoking a cigarette. You're the frontrunner now and it seems to me as frontrunner you would have a responsibility not to take that kind of a tone in this campaign. I would suggest that perhaps as the frontrunner, you'd want to raise the level of the campaign.
CAIN: We will do that, Bob. I do respect your objection to the ad. Probably about 30 percent of the feedback was very similar to yours. It was not intended to offend anyone. Being a cancer survivor myself, I am sensitive to that sort of thing.
SCHIEFFER: Would you take the ad down?
CAIN: Well, it's on the Internet. We didn't run it on TV.
SCHIEFFER: Why don't you take it off the Internet.
CAIN: It's impossible to do now. Once you put it on the Internet it goes viral. We could take it off of our Web site but there are other sites that have already picked it up. It's nearly impossible to erase that ad from the Internet.
SCHIEFFER: Have you ever thought of just saying to young people, don't smoke. 400,000 people in America die every year from smoking related-
CAIN: I will have no problem saying that. In fact-
SCHIEFFER: Well, say it right now.
CAIN: Young people of America, all people, do not smoke. It is hazardous and it's dangerous to your health. Don't smoke. I've never smoked and I have encouraged people not to smoke.
SCHIEFFER: It’s not a cool thing to do.
CAIN: It is not a cool thing to do. That's not what I was trying to say. Smoking is is not a cool thing to do.
SCHIEFFER: All right. You talked some about the missteps you have made in the campaign. I want to clear up just a couple of things to make sure your position is on the record. You talk about at one point, talking about immigration, you talked about sealing off the water with an electric fence that had barbed wire on the top and with a sign on it that said this fence can kill you. You said that. Then you went on Meet the Press and told David Gregory, listen I was just kidding. That was a joke. But then the next day you said well an electric fence is part of it. I want to ask you do you think part of solving this problem is putting an electric fence on the border?
CAIN: I believe that solving the illegal immigration problem means solving four problems. First secure the border for real. That will be secure with the fence, not necessarily electric, but a fence. Another part with technology and another part with troops because of some of the areas that are so dangerous. So it will be a combination of the three. Yes, I said that was an over-exaggeration. Secondly we've got to promote the path of citizenship that's already here. We've got to enforce the laws that are already here. And we've got to empower the states to do what the federal government is not doing. I was in Alabama yesterday. They passed some laws and now Justice Department, the Obama administration, is coming down on them just like they came down on Arizona. I don't agree with that. I believe that the actions that Alabama took and that Arizona took to try and defend themselves and then do something about this is the right thing to do.
SCHIEFFER: You also said at one point that you might want to back that fence up with a moat and fill it with alligators. Was that a joke too?
CAIN: That was totally in jest, Bob. Some people getting used to my sense of humor and as I get more attention I will tone down the sense of humor until I become President because America needs to get a sense of humor.
SCHIEFFER: That would be pretty expensive by the way.
CAIN (laughing): Right. It probably would.
....
SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you since we're on the subject of abortion, there was at one point back there when the question of Planned Parenthood came up and you said that it was not planned parenthood, it was really planned genocide because you said Planned Parenthood was trying to put all these centers into the black communities because they wanted to kill black babies before they were born.
CAIN: Yes.
SCHIEFFER: You still stand by that?
CAIN: I still standby that.
SCHIEFFER: Do you have any proof that that was the objective of Planned Parenthood?
CAIN: If people go back and look at the history and look at Margaret Sanger's own words that's exactly where that came from. Look up the history. If you go back and look up the history. Secondly, look at where most of them were built. 75 percent of those facilities were built in the black community and Margaret Sanger's own words, she didn't use the word genocide, but she did talk about preventing the increasing number of poor blacks in this country by preventing black babies from being born.
SCHIEFFER: So you would not see any advantage to having young mothers get counsel and advice that Planned Parenthood could give them? I mean, with so many black babies born out of wedlock?
CAIN: There are a lot of centers that offer sincere counseling rather than Planned Parenthood claiming to be those centers when in fact they would rather for the young lady to come in and say they want to get an abortion and facilitate that. Plenty of centers out there genuinely do that. What I'm saying is Planned Parenthood isn't sincere about want to go try to counsel them not to have abortions.
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Cain SCHOOLED Schieffer on RACIST-EUGENECIST SANGER
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:12pm.
THAT'S the take-away from that interview.
Lamestream will jump ugly all over the smoking part, but Herman took Bob to school on Sanger BIG TIME.
Bit more about her evil is here:
http://anniefields.com/blog/?p=2206
Hey, Schieffer, Obama smokes too!!!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:21pm.
Well Cain missed the opportunity to tell Obama not to smoke there. Aside from that, he also missed the opportunity to tel Schieffer he sounds like a girly man with his whining.
That, and obviously Scheiffer doesn't watch . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:34pm.
. . . CBS TV on prime time.
Who are young people more likely to emulate: Some middle-aged guy they don't recognize in Cain's ad, or the cool characters they see on CBS's programs?
Someone refresh my memory...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:22pm.
Did Shieffer have a problem with a demorat ad that showed granny being thrown off a cliff?
Touche'
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:39pm.
Bob should apologize to all the Grannies in America!
I'd like for Herman to have just stared at Bob when he was ranting about smoking. When these hosts start on to a tangent about relatively non-important issues, the Conservative guests should just sit there until they ask if they're going to answer. Then, calmly reply, "I was just waiting for you to return to reality."
I think someone needs to make it clear
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:11pm.
to kids that it's not cool to dump grannies off of cliffs--before it goes viral.
Bob is a complete horse's
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:24pm.
Bob is a complete horse's a$$. What a jerk.
SUKK. IT. Bob Schieffer!!
Submitted by locomotivebreath1901 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:24pm.
Who is this pompous condescending priggish clown?? The 'smoking nazi??'
SUKK. IT. Bob Schieffer!!
I'm more concerned about all the hate mongering, violent neo-bolsheviks squatting in our cities, rioting against police, defecating on private property, assaulting Jewish people, and advocating the death of bankers if they don't give up their wealth!
SUKK. IT. Bob Schieffer!!
"SUKK.IT. Bob Schieffer!!"
Submitted by buddyc on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:37pm.
"SUKK.IT. Bob Schieffer!!" says it well.
No media person is more responsible for tens of thousands of suicides, the millions without jobs, the millions out of their homes and the starving children that Bob Schieffer by this effort to elect this monumental failure, BH OBAMA. He never misses a chance to support Obama.
Get a life Bob, it was funny. It had meaning that a partisan hack can't grasp.
The only thing that caused me think less of Herman Cain is that he needs to learn that guys like Schieffer are hacks. They are out to get him. They work for the man that hold the office Cain seeks. Cain should have said: "But Bob if you care about encouraging people not to smoke, why did you go to such lengths to support a smoker, Obama, for President" or "In an economy where millions are without work, starving, homeless and tens of thousands are committing suicide, you think it is more important to talk about an add showing someone smoking" or "Bob, I was told you were a partisan hack, I should have listened, this interview is over."
Scheiffer blows smoke from his a**
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:33pm.
An internet ad in which a mildly creepy looking guy smokes a cigarette -- like that's THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE to ask a candidate running for the Rep nomination?
Guess old Bobble head has never seen MAD MEN.
Maybe someone needs to smoke Schieffer.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Hey--just a sec
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:45pm.
"Mildly creepy looking'...this was an ANTI-smoking ad, not a ain't this cool ad! Do you feel stupid now, Bob?
Last I checked, smoking is
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:33pm.
Last I checked, smoking is legal and is a personal choice. I puff on an occasional cigar, and if somebody smokes, that's their business, although I'm not a big fan of it. I'm sick of these holier-than-thou types who keep attacking it - if it's that big of a deal, then make smoking ILLEGAL!!! Oh.........wait.......we NEED the revenue generated by taxing the hell out of the tobacco companies to pay for.................anti-smoking ads??? Yeah, this makes a helluva lot of sense. Didn't these clowns also actually pass legislation to BAN 'Joe Camel'..............a friggin' cartoon character??? I'd actually like to see where those multi-billions of dollars confiscated by the Government from the EVIL tobacco companies actually goes, and what kind of results it actually produces.
I think that the US Government should go back to the American Indians and sue the hell out of them for introducing tobacco to the poor white victims, and causing all of this pain, misery, and sickness...........and costs incurred by it!!!
My friend just came back from Indonesia, where cigarettes are 17 cents a pack................what are they here these days, $8???
I don't know why Cain would even waste a minute talking to a brain-dead, narrow-minded, dyed-in-the-wool, over-the-hill, cantankerous, grouchy old has-been like Schieffer anyway.
"Cain’s accurate claim
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:36pm.
"Cain’s accurate claim Planned Parenthood was spurred by the eugenics movement’s desire to reduce the black population."
Source?
Hi.
Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:13pm.
Have you ever read anything written by Margaret Sanger?
Kata
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:06pm.
Yes, but it's usually misinterpreted or twisted.
Really, so Sanger misinterprets or twists her own words?
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:22pm.
Or are you twisting and misinterpreting her words by yourself?
So which book did you read?
Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:43pm.
And what did you think of it?
I think some of it is very
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:47pm.
I think some of it is very harsh and cynical, but there seems to be a concern for the general welfare -- misguided as it is. I don't know that I've seen anything she's written as blatantly racist.
And I don't think any of this means that the purpose of PP today is about thinning out the black population.
Says the guy the loves cop killers....
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:58pm.
You got no problem with thinning out the cop population, do you? Certainly did catch up fast on Sanger huh? Too bad you won't do the same with the 2 cop killers you came here and claimed were innocent despite their convictions by juries of 12 peers.
Tell everyone again how you love the cop killers. It has been awhile.
concern...
Submitted by kata on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 2:57pm.
You need to read the "Pivot of Civilization".
kata
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 4:01pm.
Any particular passages?
Huh?
Submitted by kata on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 4:09pm.
The purpose of recommending a book is to get the entire context. I am sure your public library has a copy.
I guess I could have just linked a blog with some quotes and summaries. I think someone else did that and you dismissed it.
Just thought you might have
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 4:14pm.
Just thought you might have some choice ones in mind. No problem.
Bal will this do?
Submitted by James2306 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:16pm.
www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
Pacifism is a luxury bought with the blood of the valorous
Um, no.
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:06pm.
Um, no.
Oh look boys and girls.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:21pm.
The guy that refused to give us the source of his claims that two convicted cop killers were innocent now demands sources of others.
Isn't that cute. Cop Killer Lovers have no sense of irony whatsoever.
Sanger's dark philosophy is no secret ...
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:39pm.
No one who is curious and intellectually honest will find it hard to find information on Sanger's racial views, etc.
Even Wikipedia includes information on Sanger's belief in eugenics, the inferiority of darker-skinned people, sterilization, birth control and abortion - all to control or eliminate what she considered inferior and "unfit" individuals in society.
Too bad...
Submitted by retrocon on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 9:39pm.
you don't want to actually research stuff.
The liberals have been trying for years to rewrite history around her, as they have with Al Gore Sr, Byrd, and other racists on the left.
Unfortunately, kool-aid drinkers WANT the revisionist histories so that they can justify their loyalties to a fabricated ideology... sorry to see that's you, bal.
LOL! Imformed much?
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:21pm.
Let me guess, your media hasn't told you anything about this? What about SF political-mob renter, socialist atheist "Reverend" Jim Jones? No?
Was it San Francisco?
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 8:37am.
I know he moved his cult from Indiana after paranoia about a "nuclear doomsday" consumed him, but was it San Fransisco? I thought he moved to Sacramento or something like that...
This section is pretty accurate
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:14am.
from what I know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_jones#Move_to_San_Francisco
Hey asswipe
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:45pm.
It is your job to interview your quest, not tell them they are wrong on something.
And no condemnation for the
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:47pm.
And no condemnation for the smoker and chief? What a joke Bob has displayed himself to be. :-(
Schieffer the useful idiot CBS employee
Submitted by spepper on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:48pm.
Schieffer, a useful idiot CBS employee, looks like a whiny schoolgirl next to Cain, who is simply too nice to say what he was REALLY THINKING during Schieffer's "crankly old fart" routine: "....the point, you old fart, is that there WAS NO POINT to the ad, other than what the man Blocker actually said, YOU DIMWIT!" Another obvious media bash-fest attempt by CBS against a GOP candidate, which failed, MISERABLY.
Cain's ad was about what's cool
Submitted by pockets64 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:53pm.
Sure, the smoking bit in Cain's ad was about what's cool. But it was not saying smoking is cool, but that being feedom-loving Americans doing their own legal thing IS COOL.
The ad
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:37pm.
The ad was pretty TWIN PEAKS. But hey--whatEVER... I wish Cain had sort of joked about it.. "So you are in the NOT SO MUCH column, Bob?"
clear the smoke
Submitted by TerryWest on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:03pm.
Very odd, Schieffer has voiced a sudden concern for what best serves the country after years of colluding to hide, neglecting to disclose and intentionally disregarding so much that has gone against the country's well being.
It's obvious...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:03pm.
...that Schieffer needs to fill out this form. http://images.encyclopediadramatica.ch/5/50/Butthurt-ad-de.jpg
I think the stick up Schieffer's butt has cancer.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:04pm.
Newsbusters - Bob Schieffer Bashes Boehner for Smoking and Taking Tobacco Money.
Schieffer Thanks Obama for Not Smoking
Sometimes former smokers are the worst form of humanity on earth. The stick up Schieffer's butt has a thing about going after smokers. Hey Bob, YOU got to smoke and no one waved the stick up their butt in your face.
"One day I went to the gym and after working out, I looked and discovered blood in my urine. I didn't know what this meant but I didn't think too much about it. I thought, 'well I probably strained myself,'" Schieffer said.
Schieffer blames smoking.
"I was one of the heaviest smokers. I started chewing tobacco when I was 16 years old because I hung around rodeos and played baseball."
Hey Vet, don't you know?
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:09pm.
He's a libtard "journalist." He gets a free pass. ;)
wow...
Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:29pm.
Time for him to resign as a journalist if he just can't keep his anti-smoking activism separate from his job.
Pro Choice
Submitted by TangoUniform on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:08pm.
Cain should have pulled a Rand Paul on him, and asked him if he were pro choice. Of course he is, therefore he believes all should have the "right" to do as they please legally. Smoke, buy lightbulbs of their choice, etc. etc. Actually, I think Bobby here is offensive and should be forced off the air.
Guess what wasn't said?
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:09pm.
It wasn't said that smoking is legal and that Mark was performing a legal act. He is within his rights, smoking Nazi's notwithstanding. That should have been said to Schieffer. We don't give a rat's rear end about your sensibilities, your dislike of smoking, or frankly when you pulled your head out of Obama's backside for this interview.
Frankly, I think it demeans Herman Cain to go on with Bob Schieffer until Bob denounces his own infatuation with all things Obama.
Dennis Prager
Speaking of Nazis, Hitler
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:12pm.
Speaking of Nazis, Hitler banned smoking in the Reichstag and forbade his officers to smoke in public, among other smoking prohibitions. Ironically, which side today acts more like Nazis, and which side gets accused of being Nazis?
Oh, and for that anal troll, here's your all-important link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany
Smoking is gross.
Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:23pm.
but it isn't illegal.
I fully admit I wondered what the heck the purpose of the cigarette was. But, I am sure they expected this crap storm. I guess we'll see whose truck this political hay gets loaded onto.
A brilliant move
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 3:00am.
That add wouldn't have been seen by more than a million people tops. But since it has gotten all the publicity, half the country knows about it. And more importantly, A lot more people will recognize the name Herman Cain. Name recognition is a very powerful thing, especially in politics.
Also, I don't think there is a single person that will see this add and decide that smoking is cool.
We Are The 53%
Yo, Bob
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:26pm.
Is doing drugs cool? Will you condemn it? Whyncha quit CBS, because they promote the coolness of drugs in their sitcoms all the time (same as the other networks, too--you listening, Brokejaw?)
Those gators
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:34pm.
I think it was the pres who joked about how "some people" (his familiar straw men) want alligators in the moat...
Incidentally, these polticians don't answer to these news people...sometimes I think the news people think they are the arbiters. We are--the voters.
The way he talked down to him!
Submitted by YorkvilleGirl on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:41pm.
I detest using the race card here, but I believe this is a genuine example of the patronizing tones of a white liberal to a black man who has incorrectly strayed from the plantation. Talking down to him like Cain is some disobedient school kid.
It's the not-so-subtle, demanding, superior voice of Schieffer that reveals the subtext here. I'm actually kind of disappointed that Cain didn't just say "It's legal. P*ss off. Next question?"
Shut up Bob
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:43pm.
Cain is not a child, nor are we. Shut up and ask substantive questions of the Presidential candidate, and drop the attitude. You're not Cain's parent nor ours.
Bob: "Well say it now!"
Seriously??
We are missing the obvious
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:50pm.
Cancer Man! From the X-FILES... This was an homage. Oh, well done, sir!
We are missing the obvious
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:51pm.
Cancer Man! From the X-FILES... This was an homage. Oh, well done, sir!
Scheiffer
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:05pm.
Who the hell cares what your PC "opinions" are on smoking? On the other hand, your so-called facts on people/history are also informed, not by reality but by PC bias...well, that is not a surprise, is it??!!
Curious...
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:16pm.
I wonder what Mr. Schieffer would say about His Majesty The Shahinshah smoking. Or if he has ever said anything about Him smoking.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
What infuriates me with this
Submitted by Seashell on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:25pm.
What infuriates me with this interview is the the hypocrisy. I think it is almost becoming tiresome to say "if Bush did it" what would they be saying. It is almost funny (and daily) how many times we have seen this type of hypocrisy, but come on. If Bush was a smoker being the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES the media would be talking every damn day about what an awful message it sent to our youth, or that Bush has no discipline, or what a terrible example he is--etc. I can't remember anything said from the MSM regarding Obama's puffing away in the White House in a negative way. Perhaps it was mentioned a few times but was always just laughed off.
If Schieffer had scolded Obama in the same way then maybe I could stomach this interview, but as usual Obama got a free pass from him and all the other suck up Obama liberal press people. Makes me sick.
It's not funny that Bob is a doddering old Obamaniac fool.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:40pm.
Or call him a senile Obamagasm tool, as you will.
Either way, the blatant bias and the bigotry laced within his diatribe is another disgusting example of the media's failure to do anything but serve as the propaganda machine for the Obama administration.
Time to retire, Bob. Retire and shut up, please. We don't need more Dan Blathers, Walter Crankheads or other irrelevant old fools feigning relevance in an era that wants to forget them.
"It's not funny to me",
Submitted by celator on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:42pm.
"It's not funny to me", harumphs Little Bob. LOL. Since when do we care what's "funny" or interesting, or acceptable, or informative or important to you, Schieffer?
Schieffer's Selective Scorn
Submitted by zefal on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:06pm.
How much scorn does Schieffer direct towards journalists who write for publications who have tobacco advertising?
smoking
Submitted by GerryC on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:31pm.
That's it!!!!!!!!!!! Bob says I need to stop smoking because it MIGHT kill me! I have to quit now!!
In the meantime, should we talk about abortion that has murdered almost 50 Million kids without regard in the last 40 years? Yes, 50 million, by choice. What choice did these babies have who never had a chance to see daylight, never mind decide on smoking a cigarette?
At 54, I know I should quit smoking, but it is my CHOICE (and I pay more than my fair share of taxes to do it. Almost a 100% tax on the product). Pro-Choice Bob thinks killing 50 million kids by abortion is OK and pro-choice, whereas adults that smoke risking death is not a even plausible and a NO-choice.
In the meantime, I am stepping outside and being pro-choice and thanking the Lord for my choices, while having another cigarette.
P.S. Has anybody ever heard of a child dying from tobacco use? Abortion kills 100% of its target, cigarettes kill less than 25% of its users. I am not aware of tobacco killing any kid or baby, but abortion does it 100% of the time. Liberalism is a disease of the mind. GC
GerryC
Submitted by Seashell on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:33pm.
Excellent point.
What I heard was
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:54pm.
“Well, say it right now, boy!”
cranky old men
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:08pm.
Did Bob end the interview by yelling at Cain to..... "Hey! Stay off my lawn!!"......?
Once again we witness the ARROGANCE of the
Submitted by Cape Conservative on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:43pm.
formerly-known-as mainstream media! I remember Charlie Gibson looking down his nose at Sarah Palin, wagging his shoe in a MOST CONDESCENDING manner...that was the day we made the decision to NEVER have the alphabet channels on our televsion set again!
Bob Shieffer should have addressed his OWN tobacco habit instead of demanding that Cain (a NON-smoker) renounce an employee's habit. After all, this IS AMERICA where we are all free to do as we so choose - at least for a little while longer.
For Shieffer to admit he didn't know about Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood is cause for his dismissal. His rude and arrogant manner should be a lesson that ALL Republican candidates pay close attention to...STOP being a wuss when being attacked by these FAR-LEFT supposed journalists! Ask them instead why they are even asking such a question. TURN THE TABLES on them!
Americans are fed up with these know-it-alls and we APPRECIATE each and every effort made to put them in their place! It's time they learned that they are NO BETTER than the rest of us...perhaps getting out amongst real Americans might actually teach them a thing or two! If more people would politely call them out on their rudeness, they just might get the message. As it is, sitting there while they bully our candidates is not a winning formula!
Speaking of arrogance and
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:56pm.
Speaking of arrogance and abject condascension , re-read Broke-Jaws remarks at the beginning of the article about Cain's 9-9-9
plan..................sickening in it's content and dripping with sanctimony.
"...and this is an editorial
Submitted by fitzfong on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:50pm.
"...and this is an editorial opinion here..."
So, what else is new?
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
CBS shows smoking still in
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:57pm.
CBS shows smoking still in many of its television shows. They show a LOT of drinking too by uber-successful people somehow making a connection between money, power, cigarettes/cigars and single-malt scotch. Almost every drama has it.
Also, I would correct Cain in saying that Planned Parenthood was created to wipe out the black AND white population while illegal-aliens breed like sea-monkeys.
By the way, I have no problem with scotch and smoking in television and movies. I am MUCH more worried about CBS et. Al. homosexual agenda, left-wing bias, anti-Christian/Mormon/Catholic agenda and PRO-ever-other-religion like Islam.
I don't understand why Cain and other Conservatives...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 9:10pm.
go on shows like this. No one who watches them will vote for a Conservative anyway so it is all just a waste of time and effort.
Anyone else?
Submitted by Indie Dude on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:00pm.
Anyone else thinking this white liberal man is talking down to a black man? RACIST!!!!
Is Bob the cig police now and what 60 old adult "journalist" uses the word "cool" to describe something in an editor?
Was he like this with Obama who is probably still a closet smoker?
Pretty selective sick attacks.
Jus' 'member who runs da
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 11:09am.
Jus' 'member who runs da show. We's give yous stuff and nevah hold yous accounin'able for nothing. All yous gots ta do is vote fo' DEM-O-CRAT on da ballot. Don' go tryin' ta do no thinkin'. Thas our job. You jus' keep demandin' mo' stuff an' cursin' dem RE-PUB-LICANS.
More damage has been done by...
Submitted by stage9 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:04pm.
...liberalism in this world than by any cigarette ever could! Liberalism is responsible for more sexually transmitted diseases and behaviors and solely owns the murder of more babies than any other group in the history of the world.
And this imbecile is concerned about a cigarette ad?
Rid the world of liberalism and the world will be at peace.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Here it comes.....
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:37pm.
http://news.yahoo.com/cain-denies-report-sexual-harassment-005515800.html
Wonderful
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:44pm.
From the article
is facing a new level of scrutiny after a burst of momentum in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
I guess what the press is saying, the lies and innuendo are coming forth right. The same media who refuses to tell the truth about the libtards has no problem making crap up about decent honest folks.
That self rightious SOB,
Submitted by jessieH on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:20pm.
That self rightious SOB, Scheiffer, what he thinks isn't worth squat! I am a smoker that is completely fed up with the liberal socialist morons in this country, badmouthing me & every other smoker in this country! You take away our rights, as taxpaying, American Citizens, just because you don't like smokers. Well, I don't like assholes & idiots, but I'm not trying to take away your rights. Maybe the liberals should look up the word "Freedom", before they go shooting off their corrupt, twisted mouths.
I didn't find it funny when
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 2:20am.
I didn't find it funny when the media fawned over a marxist for the role of the President of the United States, and now nearly 3 years later we can clearly see it didn't serve the country well either.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
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Submitted by kiwikit on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 5:59am.
Who can name a member of the subject group known for his sense of humor? Sense of entitlement, yes; humor, never. They have no problem pushing abortion of innocent children, but don't let a whiff of smoke get onscreen. This has become crazy. . . I'm one of five who were born to and lived with parents who smoked all their lives; all of us are healthy (and over 60,) well-educated, mentally and physically healthy, and have worked: contributed to society rather than taking from it. I'd rather have a parent with values than one who listens to the MSM anti-religion
divas. All five of us rate our parents gift of faith as the most valuable thing passed on to us.
Cain is too classy and
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 6:12am.
Cain is too classy and good-natured to react as we wish he would, but I think that's a good thing - it allows people to see this crap for what it is!
Ronald Reagan
A question for Schiefer
Submitted by iamsaved on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 8:58am.
"SCHIEFFER: But it does. It sends a signal that it’s cool to smoke."
Cain should have asked Schieffer if he got the signal that it's cool to smoke when he saw the ad? Knowing Schieffer's response would have been no, all Cain had to do was say "Mr. Schieffer, you just voided your own statement"
Did Schieffer once ask Obama if he thought it was "cool" to smoke and did he think he was sending a positive message? What hypocrites.
Shieffer, Two Faced Bobble Head
Submitted by pcnav on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 9:14am.
Shieffer also scolded John Boehner for being a smoker but said not a word when interviewing the smoker in chief, Obama.
Therefore Shieffer's view on smokers, for me at least is conversation that I can just disregard as politically motivated. The man has no credibility.
What Cain should have said to
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 9:51am.
"I don't think it serves the country well" was: Well I don't think you serve the country well, but here I am.
Stupid is as stupid does
Submitted by gregfahey on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:29am.
I like Cain a lot. But, when I saw this ad I wondered what on earth they were thinking! You need to have someone on your team that looks at every ad/release etc; with a skewed to the left eye.
Obama smokes, and Cain missed an opportunity to challenge Scheiffer by saying "I'll say that you shouldn't smoke if you look the camera in the eye and tell Obama it's wrong to smoke too."
Sorry but, I'd have to classify this Cain ad in the "bonehead move" folder.
"bonehead move"
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:41am.
maybe - maybe not
We will find out down the road but one thing is sure and that since this ad has been out Herman Cain fund raising has dramatically increased on-line. And it probably isn't even coming in from the ME in mysterious identical amounts.
That is a weird ad, btw.
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 11:36am.
That is a weird ad, btw.
No one cares, btw.
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 2:28pm.
Go write another love letter to Asata and tell her how you are keeping all the evidence of her innocence in a box under your bed in mommy's basement.
Cain
Submitted by Bradford on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 12:51pm.
I watched the show and here is how it seemed Bob's scolding was going "Dance my little minstrel, dance for me!" I watched Bob smoke cigarettes in the 60's and 70's on television and he was too stupid to quit before it became a health problem for him.
Smoking? That pales...
Submitted by retrocon on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 3:04pm.
I look at the exchange on Sanger as much more profound.
CAIN: "... she did talk about preventing the increasing number of poor blacks in this country by preventing black babies from being born."
SCHIEFFER: "So you would not see any advantage... that Planned Parenthood could give them? I mean, with so many black babies born out of wedlock?"
Shieffer is basically saying "So, she was a eugenist, wanted to reduce black populations... is that so bad? Really?"
wow. where is the call to have this guy fired???