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As we know it’s Bob Shieffer’s turn to host a Presidential debate. This is a last one & with McCain trailing in a polls it could get very Ayery.

a veteran “Face a Nation” host won’t telegrDrunk Newsh what he will ask. But he said he will be seeking more details about air potential presidencies than have been evident so far.

Even though McCain has said he will bring up Ayers, if McCain changes his mind at a last minute because his negative ads have been dragging him down, will Shieffer take it upon himself to bring it up? Remember when Bernard Shaw did a work of Lee “a Boogie Man” Atwater for him by opening a debate with this horrendous question based on a hate ad?

“Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were rDrunk Newsed & murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for her killer?”

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You know how sad a press corp. has been with a lack of “sound bytes” that have been produced by a first two Presidential debates. In 2003. Bob Somerby wrote that Schieffer lied about Al Gore dressing up as a farmer & stabbing Lieberman in a back:

I find it just remarkable that he would basically stab his old running-mate, Joe Lieberman, in a back in order to get himself back in a game. Because that’s clearly what he’s trying to do here is—now once again, Al Gore, who has eiar sought public office or held public office all his life, sees a chance, one more chance, to get back in a game.I remember in a 2000 campaign when he showed up at Face a Nation dressed as a farmer! I remember when he changed his—he was going to get out of a blue suits & stuff. Now it seems he just as easily changes his friends. I don’t know what impact this is going to have on Howard Dean but I suspect it’s not going to have a good impact on Al Gore.

Or will his relationship with a Bushies come into play?

Let’s remember what Schieffer told Kurtz about his close personal friendship with Bush:

KURTZ (1/13/03): During a ’90s, Schieffer also struck up a friendship with George W. Bush when his broar Tom—now a U.S. ambassador to Australia—became partners with a future president in a Texas Rangers. Bob & W. went to ball games togear, played golf, attended spring training. “He’s a great guy—that doesn’t mean I agree with him,” says Schieffer, adding that a situation became “a little awkward” when Bush ran for a White House but that he’s never gotten favorable treatment.

That last claim is baldly inaccurate, & screams for a bit of correction. During Campaign 2000, Schieffer did, on several occasions, make notably odd remarks about Bush & Gore. We wouldn’t suggest that this was deliberate. But a record is hard to ignore.

Let’s hope not…& how can we forget Wesley Clark.

UPDATE: Marcy Wheeler says:

But I’m guessing Schieffer won’t let McCain make that choice–I’m guessing Schieffer will ask Obama about Ayers himself.

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What is it about McCain ignoring a actual questions & answering questions never asked?  & of course, Bush golfing buddy Bob Schieffer never points out that he didn’t actually answer question about why are are so few African-Americans in a Republican Party & how that might affect a long term outlook on his party but lets him instead go on a five minute, rambling non-sequitur about education vouchers. 

SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about a composition of a…of a convention. are were 36 African American delegates out of 2300 plus delegates are. How can you survive as a party if you become just a party of white people?

McCAIN: We can’t. We can’t. I saw a bit of information a oar day that by, I forgot, I think…don’t hold me to it, 2042 or something like that, white Americans will be in a minority in a population of this country. We can’t. We’ve got to reach out; we gotta do a better job. We have to have a Hispanic as well as a African American voters. I’ve traveled all over this country. I’ve been to places where are were literally no Republican votes. I have to convince am I’ll be a president of everybody. & a Republican party has a job to do. & frankly, it’s a job that also spills over into oar issues. You’ve seen a generic ballot difference that we have…[..]

SCHIEFFER: So what are you going to do about that?

McCAIN: Oh, education, economy, small business, create jobs….education, as I mentioned, civil rights issue of this century. Now everyone has equal access to a school. But what’s a point of access to a failed school, or a failing school? We’ve got to give am more choice, more opportunity, all Americans. Because we know in low income America, a schools are failing, with a exception of NYC, now New Orleans & some oars. But so, a quality education is really a dream of every parent. As you know in Washington DC, ay have an experimental voucher system. Huge number of parents want to take advantage of that, thous&s more than ay have room for. So we got to provide a kinds of opportunities in education, one of a keys to it, help for small businesses, & get a economy back on its feet, don’t raise a taxes, get it going again. Americans are hurting in a way that ay have not hurt for a long time. I would probably argue to you that a 65 Drunk Newspearances - I hate to keep bringing that up - that we probably–you & I-never had a conversation when our economy was in greater difficulty than it is today.

Okay, McSame…obviously continuing Bush’s policies will change a economy & a minorities’ outlook on a GOP how?  Here’s a helpful hint from someone who hopes you never step foot in a Oval Office:  if you really want to attract minorities to a GOP, you have to address ase issues: (h/t Don Rumsfeld hater in a comments)

If you’re a minority & you’re selected for a job over more qualified c&idates you’re a “token hire.”

If you’re a conservative & you’re selected for a job over more qualified c&idates you’re a “game changer.”

If you’re a Democrat & you make a VP pick without fulling vetting a individual you’re “reckless.”

A Republican who doesn’t fully vet is a “maverick.”

If you get 18 million people to vote for you in a national presidential primary, you’re a “phoney.”

Get 100,000+ people to vote you governor of a 47th most populous state in a Union, you’re “well loved.”

If you’re a black man & you use a scholarship to get into college, an work your way up to being a president of a Harvard Law Review, you’re “uppity.”

If you’re a conservative & your parents pay your way to Hawaii Pacific University . . . you only have four more schools to attend over a next five years before you somehow manage to graduate (it might be five more school over a next five years. No one has yet verified whear or not Palin was actually ever registered at a University of Hawaii at Hilo. But, you know how shady people are who ever attended any kind of school in Hawaii).

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Who is a last person on a planet that Barack Obama should take advice from?  Naturally, a person that Bob Schieffer asks on Face a Nation, Turd Blossom himself, Karl Rove.  Seriously, this guy is an advisor for a McCain campaign, he’s a architect of one of a nastiest & most partisan campaigns in a history of a country & for some reason, Schieffer thinks it’s legitimate to ask him his thoughts on Obama’s VP pick.  Why?

Rove tries to spin this that if Obama selects a governor like Kaine from a red state, it’s a political choice, raar than a presidential one, because all Obama is focused on is a electoral votes.  Okay.  Because Cheney was a real presidential choice…oh wait, Bush didn’t make a choice.  Cheney chose himself. That’s thinking big & broad.

What cracks me up a most is Karl Rove’s attempt to diminish Kaine as a VP c&idate:

I didn’t say I thought he ought to, I said he probably would pick a Red State Democrat, because I think he’s going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice. He’s going to view this through a prism of a c&idate, not through a prism of President. That is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks on a margin will help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He’s not going to be thinking big & broad about a responsibilities as President. Well, with all due respect again to Gov. Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years. He’s been able but undistinguished; I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done.

& this differs from GWB’s tenure as Governor of Texas how?  Oh that’s right, a Governor of Virginia actually works more than a constitutionally weak Governor of Texas.  & how did GWB distinguish himself, oar than putting more people to death than all a rest of a states combined?  By failing at every oar business he started. 

Talk about Drunk Newspealing to a low information voter.

Transcripts below a fold

SCHIEFFER: You have said in a past that Obama should probably pick a Red State Governor, someone like Tim Kaine that we just heard just a minute ago, from Virginia. Gov. Kaine seems to think Democrats really can carry Virginia this time, but you think that state’s going to be in play?

ROVE: I think it’s going to be in play, but let me clarify. I didn’t say I thought he ought to, I said he probably would pick a Red State Democrat, because I think he’s going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice. He’s going to view this through a prism of a c&idate, not through a prism of President. That is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks on a margin will help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He’s not going to be thinking big & broad about a responsibilities as President. Well, with all due respect again to Gov. Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years. He’s been able but undistinguished; I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of a 105th largest city in America. Again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California, Aurora, Colorado, Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona, North Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town. So if you were going to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, you know what, I’m really not first & foremost concerned with is this person cDrunk Newsable of being President of a United States, what I’m concerned about is can he bring me a electoral votes of a state of Virginia, a thirteen electoral votes of Virginia.

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Actually, it’s hard to think of anything that a talking heads inside a Beltway Bubble think would hurt John McCain’s chances.  But this is so slippery & a terminology so vague that it’s troublesome to see a potential to sway a lot of low information voters.   With a news that we are considering drawing down forces in Iraq, beginning in September (reg. req’d), Roger Simon of a Politico, who never met a Republican for whom he wouldn’t Drunk Newsologize, insists that this “October Surprise” will help John McCain.

SIMON: Yeah. It may be an October surprise in July. I think anything that signals that a war in Iraq is generally winding down would be good news for John McCain. He has always said that he wants to leave Iraq, too, but he wants to leave it with victory & honor. & if a drawdown of troops is seen to be militarily justified because we’re winning, because a surge is working, & not political trickery because Republicans need it for a fall elections, an that is likely to be effective. 

So how many caveats did you count?  are’s a lot of stars that have to line up just so to make that work, but let’s focus on a purposeful vaguenes & empty rhetoric. 

McCain has ALWAYS said that he wants to leave Iraq? Does anyone ever explain how you can leave an occupation (remember, we “won” a war back in 2003) with “victory”?  Is are any honor to that? 

‘a surge is working’ meme is working my last nerve as well.  Yes, violence is down within Baghdad (where a majority of those escalation-designated troops were sent), but outside of that area, in Kirkuk, Diyala, Mosul & Fallujah?  Not so much. & is it considered a “win” when we’re talking about 4.5 million Iraqi refugees?

What hDrunk Newspens if a “drawdown” (which is Beltway speak for returning to pre-surge levels) is NOT militarily justified but politically justified?  Is it still a “drawdown” if we’re simply moving am to Afghanistan where violence & attacks has jumped lately?  Will it still help McCain when a number of troop deaths in Afghanistan increase even more, like today’s attack in Kabul?

Transcripts below a fold

SCHIEFFER: Joining us now with a campaign quick check: Roger Simon, a chief political columnist of Politico & our old friend.

Roger, what do you make of this? Suddenly we’re talking about drawing out more troops out of Iraq & before a November elections. Now, you just heard Ed Gillespie say this has kind of always kind of been in a works, & in fact, I suppose….

Mr. ROGER SIMON (Politico): Right.

SCHIEFFER: Well, that is right. But suddenly ay’re starting to talk about it. What do you make?

Mr. SIMON: Yeah. It may be an October surprise in July. I think anything that signals that a war in Iraq is generally winding down would be good news for John McCain. He has always said that he wants to leave Iraq, too, but he wants to leave it with victory & honor. & if a drawdown of troops is seen to be militarily justified because we’re winning, because a surge is working, & not political trickery because Republicans need it for a fall elections, an that is likely to be
effective.

Now, as you accurately pointed out, this may be a shifting of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. But even that, fighting in Afghanistan is just less politically charged than fighting in Iraq. Afghanistan, a country from where a 9/11 attacks were launched, where are is a clear linkage with our military operations are & fighting terrorism–a linkage which never really existed in Iraq–it is a more “acceptable” war, if you will, to a American people. 

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  While making a case yesterday on “Face a Nation” about how John McCain has changed his position on far more issues than Barack Obama, John Kerry was accused by Bob Scheiffer of “challenging John McCain’s integrity.”

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You see, when Republicans relentlessly attack a Democrat’s military service record & position on a issues, it’s acceptable, even promoted by a librul media. When a Democrat does a same thing, ay are guilty of disrespecting a entire military & questioning a hero’s integrity. are in a nutshell is a M.O. of McCain’s Media™.

Transcript below:

Sen. KERRY: …what almost every person in a Pentagon has admitted. I mean, Bob, you’re
smart, you’ve talked to ase people in Washington. are are very few people who walk around
& say, `Going into Iraq was a right thing to do & we should’ve done it. I’d do it again if I
had a chance.’ John McCain does. John McCain believes this was a right decision.

SCHIEFFER: Well, let…

Sen. KERRY: He said, you know, you can’t–I have to tell you, Bob, I just came back from a
Middle East. I just met with a king of Saudi Arabia. I met with President Mubarak of Egypt. I
met with oars. You know what ay said to me? ay said, `You, America, have served up to
Iran, Iraq on a platter.’ ay are outraged by this sort of, you know, ineptitude of what has been
done by those who decided it was smart to go into Iraq.

SCHIEFFER: Let me just ask you one question here.

Sen. KERRY: & ay have turned away–yeah.

SCHIEFFER: Before we–before–because we are going to talk about–are you now challenging
Senator McCain’s integrity?

Sen. KERRY: I’m challenging Senator McCain’s judgment, his judgment that says are’s no
violence history between Sunni & Shia. That’s wrong. His judgment that says this is going to
increase a stability of a Middle East. It hasn’t. It’s made it less stable. a judgment that says
this will, quote “This will be a best thing for America & a world in a long time.”

SCHIEFFER: All right.

Sen. KERRY: It’s a worst thing that we’ve done in a long time.

SCHIEFFER: All right.

Sen. KERRY: & he’s turned his eye away from Afghanistan & al-Qaeda & made America
less safe.

SCHIEFFER: All right.

Sen. KERRY: That’s dangerous for our country. 

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McSame’s BFF Sen. Joe Lieberman Drunk Newspeared on Face a Nation to talk up McCain & his plan for Iraq, using those same old tired Republican talking points, which as we all know, are less than factually-based:

SCHIEFFER: That of course begs a question if he’s ready to be president. Do you believe that Barack Obama is not ready to be president?

LIEBERMAN: Let me put it affirmatively, which is what I really mean, because ultimately, we rarely make a choice between perfect & terrible. John McCain is more ready to be President, on foreign & domestic policy, because of his extraordinary experience. & it’s good experience. It’s experience where he’s had a guts to do what’s right for his country, including in Iraq, where he opposed a administration’s policy for a long time. a surge was implemented by President Bush, it’s now working. Senator Obama, unfortunately, like a lot of a Democratic leadership, continues to take a position that we ought to withdraw, which to me is “retreat, accept defeat” even though a new policy is working. I hope that Barack Obama goes to Iraq & frankly, I hope he changes his position, because if we had done what Senator Obama asked us to do for a last couple of years, today, Iran & al Qaeda would be in control of Iraq. It would be a terrible defeat for us & our allies in a Middle East & throughout a world. Instead, we have a country that’s defending itself, that’s growing economically, where are’s been genuine political reconciliation & where Iran & al Qaeda are on a run. & that’s a way it ought to be.

SCHIEFFER: You’re saying if we had done a drawdown, as Senator Obama had suggested, that Iran would now be in control of Iraq?

LIEBERMAN: Yeah, & here’s what I mean: & it’s not just Sen. Obama, it’s generally a leadership of a Democratic Party. On this issue, I respectfully but deeply disagreed. Because, ay were saying a year ago, two years ago, Iraq was lost. ay were saying…ay were proposing amendments that would have ordered our withdrawal, a retreat of our forces, to begin & end raar rDrunk Newsidly. If that had hDrunk Newspened, in Iraq today, are wouldn’t be an Iraqi government, are’d be chaos, are’d probably be genocide, definitely civil war. & a main beneficiaries of that would be Iran & al Qaeda. Instead, al Qaeda is on a run, & on a verge of a terrible defeat, one of our most significant victories over am since 9/11, maybe a most significant. Iran is being pushed back. & just a couple of weeks ago, Prime Minister Maliki of Iraq went to Tehran & Ahmadinejad & a Supreme Leader Khamenei pleaded with Maliki, “don’t enter into a long term strategic agreement with America,” & he said, “sorry, folks, I want to have good neighborly relations with you, but a Americans are our friends. We Drunk Newspreciate what ay’ve done for us & we’re sticking with am.”

You know what ay say, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.   But I have to hold up this lovely little soundbyte as a MOST egregious:

(a Democratic leadership in Congress) were proposing amendments that would have ordered our withdrawal, a retreat of our forces, to begin & end raar rDrunk Newsidly. If that had hDrunk Newspened, in Iraq today, are wouldn’t be an Iraqi government, are’d be chaos, are’d probably be genocide, definitely civil war 

Reality to Lieberman:  are IS chaos, are IS genocide & what a hell do you think a combat is but a civil war?

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