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Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions

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Donald Trump has moved on from the "birther" conspiracy to allege President Barack Obama didn't get good enough grades to warrant entry to Harvard Law School, an assertion that CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer called absurd on the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday.


"That's just code for saying he got into law school because he's black. This is an ugly strain of racism that's running through this whole thing. We can hope that kind of comes to an end too, but we'll have to see," Schieffer said.


Trump first raised the issue on Monday with the Associated Press, saying: "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."


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In a press conference Wednesday after arriving in the important primary state of New Hampshire, the potential candidate for the 2012 GOP nomination continued to pound on the issue, saying: "The word is, according to what I've have read, is that he was a terrible student when he went to Occidental. He then gets to Columbia and then gets to Harvard. I heard at Columbia he was not a very good student, and then he then he gets into Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you are not a good student? Maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong, but I don't know why he doesn't he release his records. Why doesn't he release his Occidental records?"


Trump explained the source of his concerns about Mr. Obama's undergraduate education performance. "I am just reporting what I read. Hey, I read stuff that you people write," Trump said in response to a question from a reporter at his press conference on whether he was using innuendo as opposed to facts to attack Mr. Obama.


Trump had said earlier that he raised the "bad grades" question because he had friends with smart kids who couldn't get into Harvard.


Mr. Obama received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1983. (He transferred from Occidental College in 1981.) He then got his Juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1999

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13 comments // Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions

  • Arizona_Huey
    • +1
      Arizona_Huey  

    • What else did Hairpiecegonewild say: I have a great relationship with 'The Blacks' and the ever ubiquitous 'I have black friends'. He reminds me of Archie Bunker, only in real life.

    • 1 year ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  

    • Saying Barry did not get good enough grades to get into Harvard is racist! I'm just guessing now but I would be willing to bet that there are some white people or two whose grades are not good enough for Harvard. Schieffer is really off the wall. There is nothing racist in Trumps remark. Perish the thought that anyone should say anything negative about BHO or his policies as that would make them racist. Good thing I like his suits. Hate to be considered a racist. This b.s. will continue throughout the election cycle. I bet whoever runs against Barry will be considered racist just for doing so.

    • 1 year ago
  • Saladin
    • +2
      Saladin  
    • Paratus:

      Dude, if Trump went up to him and said "Negroes can't win elections, there's no way you won," you'd probably say that wasn't racist either.

      You're obligated to do this, you don't give two flying shits whether someone is racist or not.

    • 1 year ago
  • ReMarker
    • +3
      ReMarker  

    • Typically Schieffer is "reporting" to little to late.

      As the moderator of Face the Nation, Schieffer has long given Republican politicians and operatives a pass on their lies and misrepresentations.

      Face the Nation needs a better moderator and not a has been.

    • 1 year ago
  • northernexpat
    • +1
      northernexpat  
    • ReMarker:

      I agree, the only Sunday talk show host I'll even watch is Fareed Zakaria. He is the only one that will present both sides and not let people get away with lies. The rest of them let the GOP control the conversation and don't call them out when they lie.

    • 1 year ago
  • northernexpat
    • +2
      northernexpat  

    • Finally, a MSM reporter calling a racists, a racists. Now we need the MSM to stop reporting on lies and fluff and deal with the real issues. I hope, as Lawernce requested tonight on The Last Word that NBC fires Trump. He has become an embarassment to the whole country. And the MSM that follows him around like little lost puppies should be ashamed of themselves.

    • 1 year ago
  • Misti
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  • Milieu
    • +1
      Milieu  
    • letsliveinpeace:

      llip, Geez, I really do wish you Hussein supporters would stop lying about Obama.

      Everyone know he's a Kenyan Prince, drug dealing, gay pimp, who was groomed for the Presidency before he was born. And he gonna turn America into an atheistic Muslim Caliphate run by Marxist Sharia law.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
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