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Notable Quotables: Hooray for Hillary, 'America's Greatest Creation'

May 4th, 2015 9:01 AM
This week even as her scandals compound, Time prints a ridiculous, over-the-top tribute to Hillary Clinton: "She is one of America's greatest modern creations." And, left-wing journalists attempt to justify the Baltimore "uprising" as payback for "state violence" against black citizens, with a headline on Salon.com arguing: "Baltimore's violent protesters are right."

Conservatives Rally Behind Tony Perkins and Blast CBS's Schieffer

April 30th, 2015 1:51 PM
Under the auspices of the Conservative Action Project (CAP), more than 40 conservative leaders sent a letter to David Rhodes, president of CBS News. The letter slammed Bob Schieffer for his recent bigoted and biased remarks and put forward conservative support for Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins.
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Schieffer: I Was ‘Inundated’ by Calls to Disinvite Conservative Guest

April 26th, 2015 2:30 PM
On Sunday’s Face the Nation, CBS’s Bob Schieffer interviewed Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and told him "[w]e have been inundated by people who say we should not even let you appear because, in their view, 'you don't speak for Christians.'"
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NewsBusted: Lean Forward Into Retirement, Bob

April 22nd, 2015 6:29 PM
"Face the Nation anchor Bob Schieffer announced he will retire this summer. And he plans to stay out of the public eye – by getting his own show on MSNBC." -- NewsBusted's Jodi Miller
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Milbank Suggests Schieffer Should Seek Dem Nomination

April 19th, 2015 1:29 PM
Sure, it was tongue in cheek. But still, it revealed an underlying truth . . . On today's Face the Nation, when Bob Schieffer wondered why the Dems have fielded only one presidential candidate, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank responded by suggesting that Schieffer himself should go for it. Milbank said there was a "real opportunity" for someone to run against Hillary by filling the Elizabeth…
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John Dickerson to Replace Bob Schieffer on CBS’s Face the Nation

April 12th, 2015 2:25 PM
On Sunday, Bob Schieffer announced that John Dickerson, CBS News Political Director and Slate Magazine Chief Political Correspondent, will succeed him as moderator of Face the Nation when he retires this summer. 
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Bob Schieffer to Rand Paul: Does GOP Not Want to Be More Inclusive?

April 12th, 2015 1:31 PM
Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul sat down with CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Sunday’s Face the Nation and was asked if some in the Republican Party do not want to be inclusive. The soon-to-be retired Schieffer asked Paul: “Do you think there are some in the Republican Party who are not as interested in becoming more inclusive than you are? And I say that because after all, when…
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ABC Skips Hillary’s Scandals; Touts New Epilogue, Chelsea in Elle Mag

April 10th, 2015 9:50 PM
For the second straight news cycle, ABC News failed to mention any of Hillary Clinton’s scandals on Friday night as she’s expected to announce her second presidential campaign on Sunday as World News Tonight instead gushed over a new epilogue to her latest book and Chelsea Clinton’s appearance on the May issue of Elle magazine.
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CBS Oozes ‘Giant of Journalism,’ 'Amazing' Bob Schieffer Retiring

April 9th, 2015 2:00 PM
At most companies, when someone who's worked for the company for 46 years retires, they get a nice speech and a nice watch. But at a TV news network, the audience is subjected to the most extreme fawning, complete with the bizarre notion that no one has ever criticized the retiring journalist.
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Bob Schieffer Asks Tom Cotton If He Will Contact North Korea Next

March 15th, 2015 2:13 PM
Speaking to Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) about his recent letter to the leadership of Iran, Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer provocatively asked his guest: “Do you plan to check with the North Koreans to make sure that they know that any deal has to be approved by the Congress?” 
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Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Invokes Redskins When Discussing Klan

February 15th, 2015 3:00 PM
On Sunday, CBS’s Face the Nation discussed the upcoming 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in which civil rights activists attempted to march 54-miles across Alabama in demand of voting rights but were met with a violent police response as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
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Schieffer Swoons: Obama’s SOTU Was ‘Uplifting’ with ‘Soaring Rhetoric'

January 21st, 2015 1:04 AM
At the conclusion of President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union speech, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer offered plenty of praise for the President’s address by proclaiming it as “the best speech he’s made in awhile” with “soaring rhetoric” and being “uplifting at the end.” In the moments right after the speech, Schieffer declared that the…
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Flashback: Journalists Thrilled By All of Obama’s SOTU Speeches

January 19th, 2015 9:05 AM
Tuesday night, Barack Obama delivers his second-to-last State of the Union address, this time as a lame duck President with relatively low approval ratings and facing a Congress entirely controlled by the opposition party. But if history is a guide, he can count on encouraging reviews from many in the establishment media.
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Bob Schieffer Hits White House Over Obama’s Paris No-Show

January 18th, 2015 2:34 PM
On Sunday, CBS Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer took the White House to task for failing to send a senior administration official to the Paris unity march following the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Speaking to Dan Pfeiffer, Senior Advisor to President Obama, Schieffer argued that “it seems to me that the White House is always a little late in recognizing…