CBS News’ Bob Schieffer thinks that the press was maybe a little too easy on President Obama when he first ran for the White House in 2007, an admission that comes nearly eight years after the fact.
Schieffer, who retired this weekend from his long-held position as host of “Face the Nation,” made the remarks as he was being interviewed by Fox News’ Howard Kurtz.
The Fox host asked Schieffer if the press is guilty of giving then-Sen. Obama a pass in 2007, to which the outgoing CBS News anchor responded by conceding that reporters were perhaps a little too in awe of the Illinois senator’s dynamism.
“I don’t know. Maybe we were not skeptical enough,” Schieffer said.
The outgoing CBS News personality also admitted during the Fox interview that newsmen such as himself have in the past been too comfortable with politicians.
He added, though, that when the line between media and politics was more blurred in the past, things in Washington, D.C., supposedly “worked a lot better.” The reason for this, Schieffer explained, is because everyone knew each other and they were all friends.
(h/t Mediaite)
