Bob Schieffer Caught Practicing... Journalism!

Here’s something that might make you smile, perhaps even give you a shred of hope in our dilapidated Fourth Estate.

Deep in Spinlandia after Monday’s presidential debate, CBS had Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on a panel as the Trump spokesunit. Like many pols, particularly of the red hue, she thought she could simply say whatever she wished and have it taken as fact.

Sadly for Ms. Rutledge, the network had included actual journo Bob Schieffer in the group. Because Mr. Schieffer is a genuinely polite fellow, she may have forgotten that he’s also an old school newsman who finds facts of some value.

Some of the younger, “hipper” practitioners of the craft ought to study this tape to learn how it’s done.

(Notice how I could have mentioned Halperin and Heilemann by name, but didn’t? I just couldn’t do that. Not with Chelsea in the audience. Now, that took courage.)

The only way he could have held her in greater contempt would have been if she’d sported a monocle.