Schieffer Fails to Challenge Tim Geithner’s Claim That WH Didn’t Direct Him to Lie
‘My overwhelming experience was [Obama] is a man very good at making decisions’
CBS’s Schieffer Fails to Challenge Timothy Geithner’s Claim That White House Didn’t Direct Him to Spin Negative News (NewsBusters)
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, May 18 to promote his new memoir Stress Test, yet host Bob Schieffer barely touched on the most controversial aspect, that the Obama Administration had directed him to spin negative aspects of Obama’s policies.
Schieffer briefly asked his guest “Did the administration ever try to get you to put a more positive spin on things than you thought the situation deserved?" After Geithner said he “never had that experience” the CBS host quickly moved on to an unrelated topic without challenging his contradictory claim.
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