On his Sunday program Face the Nation (11/16/14), CBS host Bob Schieffer had this to say to one of his guests, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.):
Let me ask you this: Elizabeth Warren, the fiery populist from Massachusetts has now been voted in as part of the leadership in the Senate. How do you feel about that? It’s another woman in leadership. But is this going to leave the impression that the party is moving to the left, when a lot of people think the only way that you can get anything done is if both parties move toward the center?
Schieffer is right that “a lot of people” think the Democrats should move to the “center”–especially journalists and pundits, who have been saying this for at least 30 years.
There’s no reason to think it’s especially good advice, but that doesn’t seem to matter.
But let’s think for a second about the context of this particular program.
The first guest was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who loudly and predictably slammed Obama from the right on Iran.
The next guest was Mitt Romney, who criticized Obama from the right on foreign and domestic policy.
Then came the interview with McCaskill, who is one of the “centrist” Democrats who don’t want to have much to do with Barack Obama.
The next interview was with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a Tea Party-linked Republican. He was not pushed on the need to move the Republican Party to the middle.
All of this on a show that is regularly stocked full of Republican and right-leaning guests, the most popular in the show’s history being John McCain.
So it raises the obvious question: When will Face the Nation move toward the center?
If CBS had “moved to the center” in 2002/03, Bush might not have been able to illegally invade and occupy Iraq. If CBS had “moved to the center,” Bush might not have been able to steal the 2000 election.
Bob Schieffer’s has always been suspect, but he went from “journalist” to fascist propagandist with his apologetics for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza. The deliberate or indoctrinated irresponsible narrative of these people that carry their voices into American homes undermines reality and trumps any outside effort to combat criminal activity like state sponsored terror from the US and their client state, in the minds of most Americans.
How can Schiffer tell his Right from his Left, he can’t tell his ass from his elbow. This is man with no sense, period; nor common, nor any. Come from having your head up a long dark tube.
Bob Schieffer has always leaned far to the right. He has frequently touted his close friendship with Bush I. A close friendship with Bill Clinton by television anchor would have seen that person fired or at least removed from an anchor position.
Perfect example of Schieffer’s Goebbels’s dopplegangerness: “But is [Elizabeth Warren being appointed to a leadership position in the Senate] going to leave the impression that the party is moving to the left, when a lot of people think the only way that you can get anything done is if both parties move toward the center?” The clear implication is that moving left is a bad thing, though Schieffer, the Propagandist-in-Chief, friends with George W Bush of all outrages, won’t report that polling shows the American people consistently far to the left of the diseased ruling class. Then there’s the implication that ipso facto a woman assuming a leadership role in a party, setting aside that there’s not a shred of difference between the Repugnicans and the Democraps, means it’s moving left. Two words: Elizabeth Dole. No make that four words: Hillary Clinton. When Dole was CEO of Red Cross, she was pulling down a cool $600,000 annual salary. Nice scam if you’re in the charity racket. So far as I’m concerned only thing you need to know about Elizabeth Warren is she, knowing her road to power when she smells, is entirely supportive of Israeli apartheid. I can just see Warren being the dark horse winner in 2016. It’ll be Barack Hussein Obama all over again. Run as an outsider, assume the power of office, and become the consummate insider; which is to say lying mass-murderer.