I have two reactions to this - maybe three. 1 - Given the forum, utterly repulsive. 2) Should he be fired? and 3) If he coached a damned football team it would be seen as worse - but this we can accept from a major news network? I don't get it, really I don't.
NEW YORK Sometimes the badgering gets pretty brutal at the daily White House briefings. Possibly reporters quietly apologize to Press Secretary Scott McClellan (though we doubt it). It's rare, however, when the apology is quite public.
It happened today after CBS newsman John Roberts asked McClellan if today's appointment of a new nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court amounted to little more than "sloppy seconds, or what?" Among other things this has a rather unfortunate sexual connotation.
dan, you're making much ado about nothing, the guy apologized, end of story
Posted by: left wing-nut | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 08:27 PM
Dan, You have been around news guys along time and you know how Liberals are. If a conservative would have ask someone like Slick Willy anything about sloppy seconds it would still be in the news. Liberals somehow get a pass when they say stupid stuff. Remember when Sheets Byrd (Robert Byrd ex KKK senior senator) said something about white niggers. You hardly saw a word about it in the news but the Liberals hung Trent Lott for praising an old man (Senator Strom Thurmond)when he said he would have been a great President.
Posted by: brent | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 08:44 PM
"I was merely attempting to reconcile past statements about Harriet Miers with the President's new nominee for the Supreme Court."
CBS newsman John Roberts
He knew exactly what he was saying and sure as heck he had it planned. How in the world could such a question even begin to reconcile statments about Ms. Miers? He should have just said "sorry for being a jackass." Many were ready to hang the coach for his remarks on blacks, when he was stating a well known fact of football.
Posted by: brent | Oct 31, 2005 8:44:59 PM
If a conservative would have ask someone like Slick Willy anything about sloppy seconds it would still be in the news.
LOL, i bet many thought about asking that, but had too much class to do it.
Posted by: cindi in pa | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 08:53 PM
Brent - you took the words right out of my mouth. If anyone but a liberal had asked that question, we would be hearing about it on every MSM talk show for two weeks. Instead of getting fired, he'll probably get the anchor job at CBS.
Posted by: moonpie | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 09:12 PM
just shows the no boundries -go for the shock value of msm.
Posted by: splashtc | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 09:20 PM
Yes just shows how disgusting some can be !
Posted by: ! | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 09:58 PM
It was a completely tasteless joke, utterly without class. I am shocked and amused, so amused that I laughed out loud.
I like tasteless jokes. Which is why I drive around with a magnetic ribbon which states "I support more troops than you" and the other ribbon says "My ribbon is better than your ribbon"
Get a grip guys, it was a smartass remark. As I am a smartass maybe I am the only one who finds the humor in it.
Posted by: Aunt Em | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 10:45 PM
Its was in poor taste. Maybe thats how the White House press talks amongest themselves but during a daily White House briefing it was poor judgment to put it mildly. But thats what some have expected from CBS. Classless and cheap.
Posted by: Kelly3 | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 11:49 PM
And Kelly will you admit that there are far more important things to be focusing on rather than a tasteless remark?
Which when it comes down to means NOTHING.
Posted by: Aunt Em | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 11:55 PM
gross.
Posted by: FloridaPatty | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 07:34 AM
This idiot should not be allowed to stay in this country.
Posted by: Paul Conklin | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 08:20 AM
Anything to take the focus off of REAL issues...
cough... Libby.. cough... Cheney... cough...gas prices..... ect.
Posted by: absynth_minded | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 10:24 AM
I would like to add that the comments were tasteless, especially for the forum they were presented in. Had Jon Stewart or Bill Maher made the same comment on either of their shows, I'm sure it would have been received as a joke.
However, as pathetic as the comment was, the fact that we have a President without a backbone or his own convictions should NOT be lost. Nor should the fact that some people do not value the checks and balance system be overlooked. Bush tucked his tail between his legs and is going to appoint another radical right just to prove to daddy what a good little conservative he is.
Hail to the theocrats.
Posted by: absynth_minded | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 10:37 AM
Absynth minded how the hell do you know if he is another radical right judge. Did you learn that from the great Howard Dean or Al Frankin. I guess anyone who believes abortion is wrong and should be stopped is radical right. If that is the case I am radical right. I actually think anyone who supports abortion are far more dangerous than any terrorist because they have allowed unborn childeren to be killed by the millions. Osama would be proud if he had the chance to kill millions. Judge Alito is against abortion which says alot to me in this pro abortion, pro gay marriage world we now live in.
Posted by: brent | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 01:03 PM
Not a surprising comment, given Mr. Roberts was a former disc jockey at a Toronto radio station, then served as a vee-jay at a Toronto cable music channel before he headed to the United States. Please, don't send him back here! We have enough grief in this country as it is with a corrupted government supported by a liberal-controlled media. Shades of the Soviet Union.
Posted by: ruralguy | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 02:12 PM