Employing the usual liberal assumption that Republicans are always nastier at attack politics, CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer suggested on Sunday morning that Barack Obama has yet to "go negative" in this campaign and "some" say he needs to "climb off the mountaintop and get down here and mix it up."
Did he miss all Obama's talk of Bush-induced "economic disaster" on Saturday? But then Schieffer suggested that Joe Biden's going to have to be Obama's spear chucker – well, "spear guy" – and he might not be able to attack McCain since "they are such close friends."
Did he not hear the "seven kitchen tables" crack in Springfield on Saturday? This talk about timid Democrats came after Schieffer asked his Democrat guests to unload on the controversy over McCain's multiple houses.
Schieffer's guests – Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. – all pounded away at McCain as out of touch on the housing front. But Schieffer was still worried:
Let me ask you all this. There's no question that John McCain has made some inroads going negative. Is Barack Obama going to have to go negative? Some people are saying he needs to kind of climb off the mountaintop here and get down here and mix it up. What do you think, Governor?
Rendell and the others all said it could be done, but Jackson said it must be "poetic and substantive." It's somehow perfect that a Jesse Jackson would demand poetry. Schieffer then shifted to spear analogies:
Is it going to be hard, though, for Joe Biden? Clearly he's going to have to be the spear guy here, he's going to have to be the point man. Is it going to be hard for him to go after John McCain because they are such close friends?
Rendell said no, that Biden would be a "happy warrior."
Then Schieffer briefly chatted with Washington Post political reporter Dan Balz, and he returned to McCain's real-estate riches, and how it might keep him from picking "very wealthy" Mitt Romney:
SCHIEFFER: Do you think this kitchen thing, how many houses that John McCain owns, would that in some way argue against putting another very wealthy person, Romney, on the ticket?
BALZ: Well, we'd be counting a lot of homes if you had a McCain-Romney ticket, there's no question about that. I don't know in the end whether that'll--that will be decisive, but there are little things that happen in a campaign that can affect the internal discussions, and this could be one of them.
Amid all this talk of McCain's houses, CBS offered zero talk of Obama's book-royalty millions, or his mysterious house purchase with convicted political fixer Tony Rezko.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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No offense?
August 24, 2008 - 22:04 ET by FoolicanOh, how pathetic (for the MSM). Obama's gone on the offensive, he's just been too nuanced for them to notice.
Obama: So McCain can't remember how many houses he has. Ah, uh, um, er... ahhh... err.... well, if you have to have five million dollars to be rich, aaahheeehhh, well, what do you expect?
I heard all this
August 24, 2008 - 22:08 ET by bigtimerI heard all this today...when I heard Schieffer say 'Spear Chucker'....
I immediately thought....
...How racist of you!
Where is the outrage?!!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Kenya
August 24, 2008 - 22:27 ET by WesenThe last guy I knew called Spear Chucker was from Kenya. I want to see Barry on Biden's knee in front of the same White House fireplace Carter used. The question is, will Joes lips move?
Spear Chucker? You see, all whites are racist!!
August 24, 2008 - 22:32 ET by jefflebowskiBwahahahaha...a pasty little lib like Schiefer says "spear chucker?" We'll hear about as much as when Revrum Jackson said the N word and threatened to cut off Obama's McNuggets.
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Aw heck Jeff....It's
August 24, 2008 - 22:40 ET by bigtimerAw heck Jeff....
It's always ok with the msm if someone like Bob hurries and changes it to "Spear Guy"...dontcha' know!
Now if this was Imus who said this...or heaven forbid not one of my favs in the world BOR....well, who knows what the likes of Media Matters wouldn't of hurriedly sent to the rest of the left wing sites via msm heads to make a huge deal out of this all for someones head...as long as it was an evil network like Fox.
<edit>it is ALWAYS ok if a leftist white man says something like this phrase or for that matter a leftist black man...if a conservative says it...big trouble....bad, bad, bad. destroy him/her!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
negativity
August 24, 2008 - 22:39 ET by bdshepherdI've reached the conclusion that the MSM will continue to call for Obama to 'go negative' to 'defend' himself until he is able to successfully go negative. In other words, never. Not sure about McCain's potential VP, but there really isn't any line of attack against McCain that hasn't already been tried & failed.
As a corollary, the reason only Republicans are seen as being negative may be that Democrats are just so inept at it: "Tee hee! He has more than one house! He's the elitist!" Democrats seem to pick their own weaknesses and use them to attack others. I mean, Obama claiming McCain is out of touch? Yeah, right. And I got a giggle out of Hillary's 'experience' attacks during the primaries, just imagining her words coming right back at her in the general. It's kind of like the nerdy, goofy kid in school that never could understand why their attempts to be 'cool' always fell flat. (No, I wasn't that kid: I knew exactly why I wasn't cool.)
negativity
August 25, 2008 - 01:02 ET by sick_puppyHope these two do go negative. Slow Joe sounds like a fool on a normal day, going negative will make him sound like a crazy fool. Barry sounds like the shrill nerdy, goofy kid. You ever notice how Barry is shrill when he starts to whine or go negative. The raise in the pitch of his voice makes him sound remarkably like Hillary.
Barack Obacona is close to toast. Who’s gonna scramble the eggs.
Barry should have studied Murphy’s Laws of Combat. Sin Loy.
If you can't remember . . . the claymore is probably pointed at you. Murphy’s Laws of Combat
Imagine what would happen if a conservative said spear-chucker.
August 24, 2008 - 22:39 ET by R D HelmThe Obamatons in the MSM would have had a collective conniption fit.
-Dave.
Right Dave!
August 24, 2008 - 22:53 ET by Dee BunkIt would be racist against Indians if a Republican said it.
I'm just diggin' this. The
August 24, 2008 - 22:45 ET by iconoclastI'm just diggin' this. The more the Old Media bolsters Obama, the more he loses ground. It's sweet to see. It must be driving them crazy. I remember how stunned they all were when Bush won. They just couldn't believe that the American people could be so stupid as to vote for him. LOL... Sweet.
"we should immediately give every working family in America a
$1,000 energy rebate, and we should pay for it with part of the record
profits that the oil companies are making" Barak Obama, Communist
Spearchucker!
August 24, 2008 - 22:51 ET by BarrackCould be a first. A spearchucker with hairplugs.
www.benbarrack.com
Spear Chucker?
August 25, 2008 - 00:04 ET by BlondeWith hairplugs? OMG....someone call the paramedics.
On a more serial note....wasn't there a character in the original MASH movie...named "Spearchucker Jones"? And wasn't that terribly un-p.c.. even way back when?
Sorry ya'll. I decided to vote gaffe awards to Barry & his ChiaPet. But I have to make an exception for this spear-chucking fool.
The South Florida judge awards 9.6 gaff awards for this one....he got 2.5 extra points for originality in harpooning the libtards.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Blonde
August 25, 2008 - 00:20 ET by Cool ArrowI think that would be the equipment manager in "The Longest Yard" who got killed when he tightened a loaded lightbulb.
(Original Burt Reynolds version)
Or was Nat Moore "Spearchucker" in MASH, and the other guy was "undertaker"
I'm really getting old now.
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That's Spear Chunker..not Chucker..and it is a Racists remark
August 25, 2008 - 00:18 ET by JayTeeGee..that is about a Racists remark as you will ever hear..Spear Chunker ?? WHOA !!!
CBS is going back to theTarzan Movies ? I'm glad a Repub didn't say that..LOL
so Biden is going to do Barry's Bidding ?
It just doesn't get any Worse.....the worst Dem campaign EVER !!!
The Republican Revolution will not be Televised
JayTee
August 25, 2008 - 00:31 ET by Cool ArrowDon't carry it that far, please. The quote is:
Of course he could have said "point man", and it does call into question Schieffer's use of the very obscure "spear guy" and whether Obama's race had anything to do with his choice of words.
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Changing my screen name to Chuck Spears
August 25, 2008 - 00:43 ET by ZuccoZoidWait, I thought all this "racial insensitivity" stuff is now a sign of character, especially if it's Joe "7-11" Biden or any other Dem saying it - the MSM now giving us the waterboarding equivalent of spin.
I'd like my macaca black with two sugars, please...
Chuck Spears
August 25, 2008 - 00:53 ET by Cool ArrowGood screen name. Mine used to be "Riled One".
7-11 was one of Biden's best, but at the top of my list is his statement that DC students are dumb because they're black.
Wonder where Obama's unpunished daughters go to school?
No gaffes in that pair of miscreant politicians is there?
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Oh ho....
August 25, 2008 - 00:56 ET by BlondeI'd like my macaca with two sugars...and two creams, please.
I want it kinda half white....like Obama.
And that's as close as I'm going to get to tossing the race card, ya'll. Because I can. Being all of one of Barry's half...you know.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Schieffer is just trying to
August 25, 2008 - 01:21 ET by Eileen RightSchieffer is just trying to anticipate and pre-emept Biden. You know something like this is due out of his yap.
spear chucker
August 25, 2008 - 01:25 ET by JudithAtt: Tim Graham. Coming from Ohio and always living with a lot of minorities, "spear chucker" is a racial slur against blacks. Doesn't Bob Schieffer know this? A white person cannot be a spear chucker; it refers to the Zulus, Hutus, Tutsies, Watusis, and others, maybe Kenyans. I know the MSM are idiots but they must be STUPID IDIOTS.
spear chucker
August 25, 2008 - 01:29 ET by JudithAlmost forgot: double cream, so sugar.
Idiots
August 25, 2008 - 09:18 ET by dasherspear chucker: <i>"I know the MSM are idiots but they must be STUPID IDIOTS."</i>
Now you are being redundant. Who else but idiots are in the tank for Democrats.
"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O'Rourke
So what if McCain has two
August 25, 2008 - 04:00 ET by zfSo what if McCain has two houses or a zillion? He earned them, let him enjoy his success for crying out loud. Since when did being financially sucessful constitute a black mark against running for office? The founders of this nation were hardly a bunch of poor slobs themselves, they were achievers. Why is success and achievement a bad thing these days? Those should be prerequisites for being president, not detriments.
Not that being "rich" automatically makes you a great person, but neither does being "middle class" whether "upper," "lower," or whatnot. Especially when the hagiography of the "common man" comes out of the mouths of phony liberals.
Liberal$
August 25, 2008 - 12:49 ET by Sergeant ROCKThey didn't mind Corzine's millions upon millions of dollars.
LesserOf2evils '08
Negative ads are the
August 25, 2008 - 09:12 ET by dasherNegative ads are the backbone of political advertizing. I can't
imagine a campaign without it. I fail to understand how MSM harps on
this every election. Get over it!
How can any American outside of Chicago even consider voting for someone who is a product of the Chicago political machine. It would be like having the mafia in the Whitehouse.
"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O'Rourke
Running Man
August 25, 2008 - 12:48 ET by Sergeant ROCKI wish that some evil right-winger would hack into the CBS broadcast (like they did in 'Running Man') and put a 'Obama Campaign HQ - CBS Branch' behind Schieffer when he's strategizing for the Messiah.
LesserOf2evils '08
Funny, I thought by Obama
August 25, 2008 - 13:59 ET by deerjerkydaveFunny, I thought by Obama making fun of McCain's age, because he couldn't "remember" how many homes he owns, was going negative. I guess the bias I am perceiving must be just in my head, right Brian Williams?