Ex-CBS host: Maybe the press ‘wasn’t skeptical enough’ with Obama in 2007

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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.

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