Schieffer Asks Dem Guests: Why Is Your Party So Mad They're Saying F-words About the President?
It only took three days, but someone at CBS News finally realized that at least one House Democrat on Thursday vulgarly referred to the President of the United States.
Unlike most of his colleagues in the media, Bob Schieffer was so disturbed by this revelation that he asked two different Democrat guests about it on the most recent installment of "Face the Nation" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: So why is the left side of your party, why are the Liberal Democrats so against this? And I mean, they’re not just against it. They’re mad about it. They’re in a rage.
DAVID AXELROD, WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ADVISOR: Yeah, well--
BOB SCHIEFFER: I mean, somebody in the House using the f-word to describe the President.
DAVID AXELROD: There-- there are people on both sides of the aisle, Bob, who have been unhappy because the nature of compromise is that you have to accept some things that you don’t like in order to get the things that you do.
A few moments later, Schieffer brought this matter up again:
BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, you are not going to denigrate them but they don’t seem too embarrassed to denigrate the President. I mean, some of this language that they’re using to describe the President, telling him basically to shove it.
Schieffer then brought this up in a later segment with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.):
BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, Congressman Nadler, let me go back to your objections. It seems to be like it’s going to be a difficult thing for the President to bring some of your colleagues around because in that Democratic caucus, I mean people heard through the doors some of the shouts I asked Mister Axelrod how did the President feel about some Democrats actually using the “f” word to describe him? It seems like this is a really wide divide we’ve got here between a Democratic President and his Democratic House members.
In the course of roughly fifteen minutes, Schieffer addressed this issue more than the combined coverage of all of America's news outlets through Friday evening if you exclude Fox News and MSNBC.
Unfortunately, much as CNN did Friday in its lone report on this subject, he didn't accurately convey exactly how the f-word was used against the President.
Although Schieffer didn't address Vice President Dick Cheney's vulgar exchange with Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) in June 2004, the CBS "Evening News" was quite specific about what was said:
BOB ORR: As a measure of just how partisan the Capitol has become, the vulgar exchange occurred on the Senate floor as senators were making small talk after posing for a "class picture," like this one. Sources say Vice President Dick Cheney and Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy began trading barbs, with Cheney blasting Leahy's criticism of alleged war profiteering by Halliburton, a company once headed by the vice president. Leahy, a Catholic, fired back at Republicans for labeling Democrats anti-Catholic for opposing one of the president's judicial nominees. To that, sources say, Cheney responded with an expletive: "F yourself." Leahy confirmed the confrontation, saying of Cheney, "I think he was just having a bad day."
As such, CBS was far more specific about what Cheney said six and a half years ago than Schieffer was concerning what happened in the House Thursday.
Readers are reminded that according to the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman:
There was, there was sotto voce apparently, you know, not too loud, an "F the President.” There was a, there was a “No f-ing way.” There was a “He F-ed it up.” You know, we had a fairly liberal use of the F-word inside those closed doors, and there was a lot of anger.
Why Schieffer was more ginger with his description of the event is anyone's guess.
Still, it was nice to see someone in the mainstream media thought this incident was newsworthy.
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Trust Me
Submitted by IrateNate on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 8:41pm.
Newsflash - its not just one Democratic congressman....trust me on this one.
why????
Submitted by MrShy on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 8:58pm.
Why Is Your Party So Mad They're Saying F-words About the President?
Perhaps because reality has set in with these idiots that they -- like the rest of us -- are stuck with a "F"-ing POS, clueless, radical leftist, empty-suited, cult-of-personality, career politician who had no business getting past the Democratic primaries in early 2008?
Just my guess.
- Shy Shimmy
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I dunno why it's such a big
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:00pm.
I dunno why it's such a big deal........I'm sure that all of these type-A's are well versed at swearing........I mean, they're all a bunch of wimps, so they have to try and at least SOUND tough!!! And.................hmmmmm..........wasn't Rhambo Emmanuel the KING of foul language?? Didn't he ream out any number of Dems, Repubs, and all points in between?? Boy Blunder likes to say that he 'might be skinny, but he's tough' (which is a laugher!!!), but we all know that he has thinner skin than a Japanese shoji door............................so if these posers don't like the way this language is flying around................F**K'EM!!!!
~I'd venture that
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:07pm.
losing their jobs pissed them off just a tad.
Just a tad?
Submitted by jdlybrand on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:34pm.
You bet yur f'n ay!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Bru wins a prize
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 1:32am.
for the best understatement of the lame duck session.
We Are The 53%
Nothing screams intelligence like...
Submitted by optimist on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:19pm.
dropping F-bombs. Seriously, isn't everyone here impressed with our "betters" in the Democratic Party?
PO(tu)S
Submitted by whw on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:28pm.
PO(tu)S
ha ha ha
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:29pm.
LOL!!
People heard through the doors the shouting and profanity?
Sounds exactly like one of those Hitler parodies on youtube. Fits to a tee.
Well, you have to admit
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:45pm.
Well, you have to admit Schieffer is getting better. It took him only three days to reference this. He claimed he didn't even know about ACORN for the longest time...
Maybe the rank-and-file dems are starting to figure out...
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:48pm.
...that Obama doesn't give any more of a rat's left gonad about the dem party than he does about America.
The latter the far-left could care less about, as most of them share the same goals for the country that Obama does, but the former part cheeses them off because the dem party is their instrument of power - their vehicle to take us down the road, over the cliff, and straight into the Marxist/statist hell-hole they have been striving to turn us into for over a century now, and that they believe will be theirs to rule over.
Just as Hitler used the NAZI party as his vehicle to get where he wanted to go, Obama is using the dem party essentially the same way and, just like Hitler didn't care if the NAZI party survived his lunacy, Obama doesn't care if his own lunacy wrecks the dem party.
After all, the far-left can't exactly put America into the grave without the party being intact, and as things stand today, they may be out of power for some time to come. They have to realize by now, particularly after this last election, that Obama is wrecking their party, and they aren't happy about it.
They are also cheesed off because Obama robbed them of their chance to "stick it to (in?) the rich guy," which often seems to be the only thing they are looking to do, no matter how many people it might put out of work.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave.....they are starting to see......................
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 10:02pm.
their socialist utopia go down in flames!! And shocker of shockers.......Zero doesn't care!!! As long as HE gets what HE wants........Hey leftist/marxist/statist Dems.....how does it feel to be betrayed?? Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
The Socialist utopia has been under water for 20 years
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 5:43am.
according to reports on Social Ssecurity and Medicare/Medicaid. So as far as "starting to see", they must have a slow response from eyeball to brain.
As far as Zero as you call him, he is a narcissistic man-child. Repeatedly demonstrated. He cares not about the country or even his family as long as his needs and wants are fulfilled.
Dennis Prager
Revel's "Last Exit To Utopia"
Submitted by Norto on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 8:21am.
a must read. in 2001 Revel nailed what is happening here today, AND HE IS A FRENCHMAN!!!
If the President was white
Submitted by Vonu on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:56pm.
you wouldn't hear such words,
Yes you would
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 5:38am.
I heard F Bush regularly out of the mouths of liberals. Last time I checked, he is white. Here is photographic evidence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY5RksydVHY
That ends the racial argument. Next point?
Dennis Prager
Second-rate news organization
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 11:15pm.
Well, after all the real news outlets -- Fox, The Weekly Standard, Rush Limbaugh, etc -- broke the story, I guess the 2nd-rate news outlets -- CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc.-- feel the need to catch up and now report what we all know.
The next step, of course, is to explain it away.The bureau chiefs are working on that right now. Stay tuned. We'll be hearing stories like "The republicans are at fault", and "What can you expect after the republicans have turned their back on everyone but the rich -- we were just venting frustration over that, and things got a little out of hand. Nothing to see here, really". And so on.
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
I dont watch msm
Submitted by Okieflyover on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 11:46pm.
F the mediaObama is rich, he doesn't
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:02am.
Obama is rich, he doesn't want to pay the tax either.
All the stolen money from the US tax payers, he wants to keep as much as he can.
Nope. Don't trust em.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:22am.
I believe these scum do whatever they can to misdirect and diffuse situations as they work on robbing us of more of our liberties.
"Your party"? No, Bob,
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:33am.
"Your party"?
No, Bob, there's no "y" in "our party".
Take ownership for once, Bob, you transparent coward.
Liberals do not have to exercise control
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 5:34am.
over themselves seems to be the belief. They have the First Amendment, which allows them to say any vulgar thing that pops into their pre-adolescent head. Therefore, you get no logic, just F this and F that. Listen to Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz, to name three, and you will find that they never have any logic, it is pure hatred, and that the first two are vulgar all of the time.
Liberalism is God's answer to people who have never grown up to accept their personal responsibility.
Dennis Prager
Except for Fox, all of the
Submitted by billb on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 9:23am.
Except for Fox, all of the Sunday morning news shows featured democrats only!
Schieffer apparently wasn't
Submitted by wiwf on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:50pm.
Schieffer apparently wasn't alive when a certain david mcswane ran an op-ed that ran "TASE THIS: F*** BUSH" Riddle me that, Schief.More obfuscation and misdirection
Submitted by southcoast on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 12:35pm.
It interesting that as Schieffer points out the disaffectted and angry democrats, Axel asserts "...
there are people on both sides of the aisle...". Wow, that's his defense? Oh yeah, well they said it too? Did they David? Did they? Reaallly? The socialist agenda has hit a major pothole and the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do statists ruinning this scam are throwing a tantrum because they have hit a toll both. And they are paying for this trip. I expect when January starts and the new Congress takes over a clever is taken to this federal burecracy to the point where spending will be rolled back to 2007 at least..
Still unidentified?
Submitted by SonnyPalermo on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 6:02pm.
Still unidentified?