unfair & unbalanced: CBS' Face The Nation Turns Exclusively To GOP For Ukraine Discussion

[spanone]

CBS' Sunday news program will reportedly only feature Republicans to discuss the crisis in Ukraine.

On the March 7 edition of CBS' This Morning, Face the Nation guest host Charlie Rose announced that the "main topic" of the upcoming show would be the crisis in Ukraine. Rose also revealed that the guests the show will feature are all Republicans: Vice President Dick Cheney, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), and James Baker, who was chief of staff and secretary of treasury under President Reagan and secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush:

Republicans have used the crisis in Ukraine to attack President Obama's foreign policy, including CBS' upcoming guests. Cheney attacked the President this week when asked about Putin's action, "I think that Barack Obama has conducted himself in a way consistently for the past five years that conveys a real sense of weakness." While Ryan appeared on Fox this week to blame the Russian invasion on Obama's foreign policy: Mitt was right, I think the president was incredibly naive on his Russia policy. His reset has been a total failure and I think this is what happens when a superpower projects weakness in its foreign and defense policy, agression fills that vaccum and I think that is what is happening right now.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/07/cbs-face-the-nation-turns-exclusively-to-gop-fo/198405

http://www.cbsnews.com/face-the-nation/

[Politicalboi]

1. Walter Cronkite will tear them to shreds

Oh wait, Mike Wallace will. Oh wait, Edward R Murrow.....

Just don't watch it, I know I won't.

[Whisp]

2. this is so sickening... I want to throw up. n/t

[spanone]

3. i'm with you.

[Cha]

14. Hey, Whisp.. could you help Rec this.. to get more Exposure?

Thanks!

[karmaqueen]

4. Will it do any good to contact them to complain?

I looked on the link and there is contact info and a phone # to leave messages... I am so sick of hearing anything from these liars...

[spanone]

6. contact info....

Address:
Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer
2020 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20036


Phone:
[phone]


To order a transcript, call:
(800) 777-TEXT


To send an e-mail:
[e-mail]

[sheshe2]

19. Got it, thanks spanone!

[karmaqueen]

21. Thanks! n/t

[Cha]

24. THANKs for CONTACT NUMBERS, spanone!!!

[karmaqueen]

39. I just got a MAILER-DAMIEN from the email..

Wonder if they changed the email...I will try to call tomorrow..

[okaawhatever]

5. Paul Ryan, really? He knows what about Ukraine, Military, Foreign Policy? I hope he copies the words

of someone who actually knows something about the situation. The GOP is working overtime to get Paul Ryan airtime and make him the voice of the Republican party.

[GoCubsGo]

7. "Face the Nation" is still on the air?

That is more surprising than their GOP bias.

[rurallib]

8. isn't the head of CBS News now a graduate of FUX NEWS?

or is that just the 60 minutes guy?

[spanone]

10. i really can't believe that a major network is going the way of cable news....

presenting only one view.

[Sunlei]

9. Cheney is probably selling the russians the invasion package.

[lunasun]

29. All his associated companies stand to profit !!!

[G_j]

11. so blatent

CBS is nothing but a sick joke.

[Jamaal510]

12. My Comparative Politics professor

knows more about Ukrainian politics than these three combined.

[Cha]

15. Would you help Rec this, Jamaal.. to get more Exposure?

thanks

[Jamaal510]

40. Recced.

[Cha]

42. ..

[Cha]

13. Oh yeah, Foreign Policy.. US corporatemediwhores.. "let's call up the

fucking sociopathic A$$holes."

[sheshe2]

18. The dick, baker and ryan!

WTF Cha!

And yes I did not put their names here capitalized. They are nothing! WT ever living F!

[Cha]

22. Hey, she.. I was going to give you the CONTACT NUMBERS but see you're

Already ON IT!

THE STUPID BURNS BRIGHT and HOT with the US corporatemediawhore$$$$$$.

Thank you, she!

[sheshe2]

26. I will email in the morning.

This is beyond belief!

Damn it Cha!

[Cha]

28. Not totally unexpected.. but, DAMN.. I thought they they had

one fucking Brain-cell between them over there at FTN/CBS. guess not. Good we have some advance notice and hopefully they'll get lots of calls and emails with going on?!

They need serious Blowback.

[Cha]

16. K&R FOR MORE EXPOSURE.. CONTACT #S IN THREAD!

THANKS SPANONE.

[Fumesucker]

17. Everyone knows liberals aren't Very Serious People

Particularly when the subject is as potentially earth shaking as war and peace.

[sheshe2]

20. Kick!

[Cha]

23. Do they have 3 Fucking Generations of Neo-CON Sociopathic

A$$holes there or what?!

Thank spanone.. this has set me off.

[nyquil_man]

25. Great, two washed up fossils and Screech Powers.

I'm sure that will be an insightful discussion.

[sheshe2]

27. Kick!

[lunasun]

30. Bet they work Benghazi in to their propaganda spew !!!!

Sunday Am after time change ---too early for the drinking game and will not watch to see if it does get mentioned................

the March 7 edition of CBS' This Morning, Face the Nation:The crisis in Ukraine > THANKS OBAMA !! ??

[Cha]

43. Not taking that bet.. 'cause you're right, lunasun!

[ananda]

31. God, that's creepy.

..

[spanone]

33. one-sided news isn't news, it's propaganda...that is creepy

[Cha]

44. Kinda like

1984 Creepy?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

32. What bullshit. Who would believe anything Cheney has to say?

[Cha]

45. He'll be LYING like Always and so will Baker and we Already know Lyin

Ryan's sick game.

"Paul Ryan, Pathological Liar"

January 23, 2013 |

"Last seen blaming “urban” voters (you know who he’s talking about) for his and Mitt Romney’s bitter November defeat, Rep. Paul Ryan returned to the prevaricating ways he made famous throughout the campaign on Tuesday. There were his silly lies about his marathon time, of course, and perhaps more serious, his serial lies in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., last August, on welfare, GM restructuring and the 2009 stimulus bill. It’s hard to know exactly what words to use to describe his campaign appearance “helping” at a soup kitchen that turned out to be a photo op showing him scrubbing already clean pots and pans, but “honest” isn’t one of them.

Now Ryan is trying to squirm out of the lasso in which the president captured him in his inaugural address Monday. “The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us,” Obama said with indignation. “They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.”

Everyone who followed the 2012 campaign knew Obama was talking about Ryan as surely as if he’d said his name."

More..
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/paul-ryan-pathological-liar

[amandabeech]

34. For awhile now, CBS has positioned itself as right to center-right.

This line-up is more to the right than usual.

Walter Cronkite would not fit in there now, and it is a pity.

Their ratings are also poor.

[spanone]

37. it's ALL to the right, not even the appearance of fairness

[amandabeech]

38. It's not like these folks are stealth conservatives.

These days, there's very little fair and balanced on any of the networks, IMHO.

MSNBC and Al Jazeera are to the left. CBS and FOX are to the right, although I think that CBS is a little more respectable than the trash on FOX. I see CNN in the middle somewhere.

Now, fair and balanced means that you use your remote a lot.

Most folks are in the choir and want to be preached to these days, and the networks are businesses looking for revenue, not pillars of the journalism profession.

I wish that it were otherwise, though.

[reformist2]

35. The military-industrial-media complex is back in action, shamelessly pushing for more militarism.

[amandabeech]

36. Both the Estonian and Lithuanian ambassadors are on Candy Crowley.

I know she's not a fave here, but you might want to consider watching this particular show.

Her guests, who represent countries which were formerly part of the Soviet Union and have significant Russian minorities, might have a interesting perspective on the situation.

[flygal]

41. Disgusting! nt

[Enthusiast]

46. They don't even pretend to be balanced.

Fuck CBS.

[malaise]

47. No Lara Logan?

I never watch CBS - they're neo-con Central.

[Cha]

48. KICK!