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Obama is eating Steve Krofts lunch (Original Post) trumad Oct 2015 OP
That is essentially what the MSM has become, including 90% of MSNBC still_one Oct 2015 #1
Makes my blood boil. Etraker Oct 2015 #2
So much disrespect 72DejaVu Oct 2015 #3
I thought that too, that's what reporters think they have to be to be considered a great a kennedy Oct 2015 #10
Maybe we can... 3catwoman3 Oct 2015 #4
Didn't he disgrace himself a few months ago? Peregrine Took Oct 2015 #5
Yes. He had an affair with someone. leftyladyfrommo Oct 2015 #6
And let us not forget Lara Logan' s fabricated Benghazi report. Fla Dem Oct 2015 #8
Interesting. I thought Chuck Todd was pretty respectful of Bernie on MTP mucifer Oct 2015 #7
Kroft is being an ass. Blue_In_AK Oct 2015 #9
I thought it was a good interview goldent Oct 2015 #11
Please trumad Oct 2015 #12
I thought both parties held their own. goldent Oct 2015 #13
A lot of us love Obama fadedrose Oct 2015 #14

72DejaVu

(1,545 posts)
3. So much disrespect
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 08:18 PM
Oct 2015

Tough questioning is fine, but interrupting and talking over the President of the United States is way over the line.

a kennedy

(29,655 posts)
10. I thought that too, that's what reporters think they have to be to be considered a great
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 10:16 PM
Oct 2015

reporter..... he was just rude, and almost condescending. Ugh.

3catwoman3

(23,975 posts)
4. Maybe we can...
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 08:28 PM
Oct 2015

...call this kind of boorishness "Chaffetzing." That is exactly what he did to Cecile Richards. I wanted to smack him right in his smug little face. I feel the same way about Kroft and Billo.

Peregrine Took

(7,413 posts)
5. Didn't he disgrace himself a few months ago?
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 08:59 PM
Oct 2015

60 Minutes is such a sh*tty show. I never watch it - no one I know does.

Fla Dem

(23,656 posts)
8. And let us not forget Lara Logan' s fabricated Benghazi report.
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 09:51 PM
Oct 2015

She should have been fired, instead she was suspended and is back at work on 60 Minutes.

mucifer

(23,539 posts)
7. Interesting. I thought Chuck Todd was pretty respectful of Bernie on MTP
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 09:20 PM
Oct 2015

You would think it would be the other way around.

goldent

(1,582 posts)
11. I thought it was a good interview
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 10:35 PM
Oct 2015

When you are interviewing an experienced politician you have to very pushy or you will get talked all over. His questions were very pointed, but he gave the president plenty of opportunity to answer, and for that reason I think it was fair. Plus a number of the questions in the 2nd party were softballs (Trump, Hillary emails, Biden)

 

trumad

(41,692 posts)
12. Please
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 10:46 PM
Oct 2015

He accused Obama of filerbusting which was stupid as hell. Kroft was guilty of it..not Obama.

goldent

(1,582 posts)
13. I thought both parties held their own.
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 10:55 PM
Oct 2015

I thought it was a fairly tough interview (the first part anyhow), and I thought the President was effective in making his points. I imagine the President was pretty pleased with it, and would be happy to do another Kroft interview (apparently he had previously been interviewed by Kroft). I don't think the President wants an interview that is all softball questions.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
14. A lot of us love Obama
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 11:04 PM
Oct 2015

I was set back when he said that he could win a 3rd term if he were able to run. I know I'd vote for him, but there are so many complaints - he hasn't won the wars yet, he hasn't sent in a couple hundred thousand boots on the ground, folks don't like his TPP, but he's proud of his accomplishments. There have been many, starting with the miracle of winning = a black man. Wow.

Next miracle was Lilly Ledbetter and equal pay, and all kinds of unheard of things, Cuba, the Pope, The North Pole, a Prison, Immigration executive order, gay rights, female rights, good lord the things he's done. The best speeches you or I will ever hear, delivered just the right homey yet eloquent way. I can never hear the word "stuff" again without thinking of him.

Kroft is a butthole. I wish he'd had somebody else as host. I hope he finds the time to visit a humble tv station female, our Rachel.

Oh well, going to bed..

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