Veteran news anchor Bob Schieffer: Presidential election was a 'stain on everything and everyone'

[TexasTowelie]

Veteran TV news anchor Bob Schieffer said Wednesday in Dallas that the presidential campaign "left a stain on everything and everyone that it touched."

"I'm not sure anyone or any institution came out of this campaign looking the better for it," he said.

Schieffer, a Texan who has covered every presidential election since 1964, gave his autopsy of the 2016 race in a discussion with his colleague, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, who is also a Texan. The event was part of the Dallas Citizens Council's annual meeting at the Dallas Omni Hotel.

Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison introduced the pair and called the 2016 campaign "a presidential election that defies description."

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/11/30/veteran-news-anchor-bob-schieffer-presidential-election-stain-everything-everyone

[TwilightZone]

1. And the media that he's belonged to for decades had a lot to do with that.

He mentioned the media, almost in passing, but they deserve much more blame for the tone of the campaign than he seems willing to acknowledge. They also gave Trump a couple billion in free advertising.

[pangaia]

2. Yeah, sure Bob. You tell 'em.

You were such a hero on the TV screen..

[RiverStone]

4. Agreed! Even "liberal" MSNBC interupted Bernie speeches frequently for the facist

[TwilightZone]

5. And gave Trump a frequest, often daily, platform on Dead Intern Joe's show

Hell, they're *still* doing it.

[Retrograde]

3. Gee, maybe if someone connected with the media

someone with a record of, say, covering presidential campaigns, had mentioned to his bosses that they were giving free airtime to and enabling a maniac for the sake of ratings....

Sorry, Bob - you're part of the problem.

[niyad]

6. uhhh, bob? 3 billion dollars worth of free coverage for der drumpfenfuhrer, and WHO was responsible

for that?