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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 12:37 PM
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Where is the liberal "Ben Stein" on Faux?
I like CBS Sunday Morning. Have been watching it since it started some 24 years ago, I think, with Charles Kuralt. Was sorry to missed most of it when we lived in California, where it started at 6:00 am (on a Sunday??)

Recently it added Ben Stein as an alternative commentator and while normally I tuned him out, he was especially obnoxious - if this is possible - today.

He tried to follow parallel lines between Nixon and Bush - not a bad idea - in how Nixon fired his advisers but it did not help him he finally had to resign himself. Thus, Ben Stein called on Bush to stand behind Rove - Bush's Haldeman and Ehrilcham, or would it be Dean? or Archibald Cox - because then "they", actually Charles Schummer, would go after him.

So CBS is bending backward, or just following the dictate of Sumner Redstone so that it can fight the label of "liberal media." So where is Stein's liberal counter commentator on the "balanced" network?

Yeah, I know, rhetoric.

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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 12:39 PM
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1. Well Faux wants us to believe it is Alan Colmes
but he is not a

Oh, never mind. I guess he's better than no one.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 12:43 PM
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2. Is Charlie Osgood still the host?
and I wasn't aware that CBS had any "liberal" commentary (?)
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 01:22 PM
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3. Yes, he is. The liberal is Nancy Giles
at least, she is alternates with Stein and has sensible comments.

http://www.nancygiles.com/pressclips.cfm
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 01:59 PM
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4. bob schieffer is the host now. i saw ben stein too.
pretty repulsive.

ellen fl
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 04:13 PM
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7. No, today was someone else
you may confuse Bob Schiefer since he came shortly after Stein for his face the nation
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 05:40 PM
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8. you're right . . . it was a young african-american male. eom
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 02:20 PM
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5. god i loathe that man>>>> Stien
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 02:38 PM
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6. Can't stomach Stein, either...I turn the channel if he comes on.
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