CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell: ‘Where are the Tax Revenues?’, ‘We Got Nothing’

"We"? Who is "We"?

ABC News' Jake Tapper defends O'Donnell's statement.

Commentary Magazine's John Podhoretz adds his perspective.

August 1, 2011 at 9:59 am - CNN
Dateline: Washington DC
BobbyGG   August 1st, 2011 - 9:03 am

Unreal. Journalism is dead and has been replaced by a "we vs. them" mentality. We obviously know where Nora's camp is.

StanH   August 1st, 2011 - 10:05 am

The propaganda wing of the democrat party of coarse, the MSM!

SassyFrasse   August 1st, 2011 - 10:05 am

LIARS POKER – Don't buy it!

Alan_F   August 1st, 2011 - 10:06 am

+100 couldn't be any clearer. THIS IS THE DEFINITIVE SOUND-BITE! Any Conservative who doesn't have this on their phone for immediate playback when speaking about the Left Stream Media is an imbecile and should be shown the door.

Urthmovr   August 1st, 2011 - 10:07 am

Right. Fox has led the way for all networks – the Fourth Estate has sold out to sensationalism. Journalism is dead.

SassyFrasse   August 1st, 2011 - 10:07 am

MORE contrived smoke and mirrors. Speaker Boehner has given the Tea Party two lumps…..again.

Speaker Boehner's budget spin smacks of old-think Washington-as-usual politics; the game-playing that so fascinates and dazzles the Inside-the-Beltway crowd infuriates tea parties and it has NOTHING to do with our acumen.

Grassroots conservatives aren't enthralled with the so called deftness, sophistication, and maneuvering that leads to a budget deal that's more hot air than substance.

The GOP's House majority is owed in no small measure to tea party Americans and right-thinking independents.

LUCY & THE GOP FOOTBALL!

Deusexmachina   August 1st, 2011 - 10:07 am

Just more proof that there's nothing in the pretty head….

WildCrazyGuy   August 1st, 2011 - 10:08 am

Only We The "WORKING PEOPLE PAY TAXES"!

jdog   August 1st, 2011 - 10:08 am

"We got nothing". Is anybody surprised that the Media is complicit with the Democratic Party. The WH got everything they want. They got time… they kicked the can far enough down the road that the next administration has to deal with this dog feces. This deal stinks.

tiredofit2012   August 1st, 2011 - 10:09 am

There is nothing stopping Nora or anybody else that wants to "voluntarily" contribute more $$$ than they owe in taxes…pony up some more of your $$$ Nora…

USSBuford   August 1st, 2011 - 10:09 am

Just report the news, dammit! What is it with these ideological shills the MSM foists off on the public? Huntley and Brinkley must be rolling over in their graves…

bob1004   August 1st, 2011 - 10:11 am

clasic college liberal reporter, feel free to give up all your pay and benifits to help pay taxes there is nothing saying its against the law. stop bashing those makeing money because i have yet to see a poor senator or congressman "public servant" give up their lavish lifestyles and sacrafise for the people.

jamsniffer   August 1st, 2011 - 10:11 am

impartial much?

gfm2011   August 1st, 2011 - 10:11 am

Nora, You got nothing? You got a failed trillion dollar stimulus and Obamacare. Gnaw on that for a while.

srvbluz   August 1st, 2011 - 10:11 am

That's because WE are tired of paying. You get nuthin. Good day sir.

Grace656   August 1st, 2011 - 10:14 am

Journalism within the MSM is dead and Nora is just a walking zombie for the left.

GUNNYG   August 1st, 2011 - 10:15 am

WHAT A STUPID LIBERAL (sorry for the digression)

READ the "CLASH OF IDEOLOGIES" to find out how this libtard thinks.

Only at:

http://theantiliberalzone.blogspot.com/2011/08/cl...
THE ANTI LIBERAL ZONE

Alan_F   August 1st, 2011 - 10:15 am

There's the new party mantra for the Democrats:

WE GOT NOTHING!

Epic.

jamsniffer   August 1st, 2011 - 10:15 am

The greats in the history of journalism at least put up the image of impartiality.
Ms Nora has seen fit to lay that aside to be in league with one party.

TheLastBestHope   August 1st, 2011 - 10:17 am

Libs are not happy…which makes me happy. Check out Paul Krugman's sad song:

Paul Krugman: “The President Surrenders"

“Make no mistake about it, what we’re witnessing here is a catastrophe on multiple levels.
It is, of course, a political catastrophe for Democrats, who just a few weeks ago seemed to have Republicans on the run over their plan to dismantle Medicare; now Mr. Obama has thrown all that away. And the damage isn’t over: there will be more choke points where Republicans can threaten to create a crisis unless the president surrenders, and they can now act with the confident expectation that he will.
In the long run, however, Democrats won’t be the only losers. What Republicans have just gotten away with calls our whole system of government into question. After all, how can American democracy work if whichever party is most prepared to be ruthless, to threaten the nation’s economic security, gets to dictate policy? And the answer is, maybe it can’t."

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target=_blank&gt <a href="http://;http://lastbesthope.sayanythingblog.com/2011/08/0…” target=”_blank”>;http://lastbesthope.sayanythingblog.com/2011/08/0…

UrinalMint   August 1st, 2011 - 10:20 am

Looks like someone like NOra has gotten into this blog and "thumbed-down" everyone.

Nora, you libtard bbabe, write a check to the IRS and present it to them on-air so we can see you smile as you realize you, for once, have done somethng that is in line with the philosophy you spew.

democratsarefools   August 1st, 2011 - 10:20 am

Wait to hear Obama's next speech where, after the votes today, he can utter the truth, albeit as much as Ploof allows. He can speak about his new found money, the end to the Bush tax cuts. Nov '12 is coming.

Mr_Holland   August 1st, 2011 - 10:20 am

For the most part you'e right. Unless you're a CEO of a multi million dollar enterprise or make more than 250,000 dollars a year, the " working people " ARE paying a higher percentage in taxes. A fact that republicans and conservatives champion and defend till the bitter end.

Strays   August 1st, 2011 - 10:24 am

"Where are the tax revenues?" —

Got that right, Nora O'Donnell, we're still waiting for General Electric to pay "their fair share" —

– unlike the Oil Companies who only made a 2% profit, and most of them have moved overseas anyway, since they can't get a permit no matter what;

– unlike all the middle class redneck, bible-thumping, gun-toting, two-job-working families and business owners here on this site, who have trouble parking and maintaining their private jets in their home-owner-association-run lots and backyards.

Heavens, I had to remove my car-tire swing because my jet wouldn't fit …

worknmal   August 1st, 2011 - 10:28 am

Folks don't fall for the media slapping tea partiers on the back and wowing. This thing passes, enacted will raise taxes and cut practically Nothing. You can kiss present rates goodbye. This old crowd DON"T CUT NOTHING. Ever!

Joanna   August 1st, 2011 - 10:29 am

Nora, your liberalism is showing.

Fed_Up_in_TN   August 1st, 2011 - 10:30 am

Hey Nora, Your big fat Bias is showing.

Stick441   August 1st, 2011 - 10:37 am

It's nice for Obama, she pitched all his talking points before her question. What a tool!

spaceracer423   August 1st, 2011 - 10:39 am

Dont worry Nora-
TAX HIKES ARE COMING!!!
they are just back-loaded.

When it comes to libs-
they are protesting WAAAYYY to much.

IM looking into the future and what do I see coming from this "super committee?"

Tax Reform: ie tax hikes.
The Dems wont claim them as hikes, just eliminating "loop holes,"
you know, like that deduction for your house payment,
or a restructuring where small business will not only see there costs go up do to Obama-care,
but if that business makes more than $100K/ yr you are now "rich."

You think the housing market is bad now?
Just wait till these new tax laws kick in.
Think small business is struggling/ not hiring?
Wait till they see are chances at profit go up in smoke!!

And if the Repubs say no?
Massive cuts in defense while our guys and gals are still stuck in three sandboxes!!!
But oh, medicare will be cut too right??
Yes, but medicade will not,
neither will OBAMACARE!!!

What is the point of cutting medicare when that cash will just be switched over to midacade and Obamacare?!?!?!
Just a reminder:
Obama already promised MASSIVE CUTS to medicare in order to prop up Obamacare.

so in reality, this changes nothing.

IF conservatives are to go along with this,
the "trigger" should to a complete defunding of Obamacare instead of medicare cuts.
Otherwise this is a complete loss for the middle class.

quivive   August 1st, 2011 - 10:43 am

The taxes will come; this deal assures it. There are three avenues for the progressives to get their greedy hands on our money:
1) The expiration of the Bush tax rates,
2) The Obamacare tax increases,
3) and the commission's proposed tax increases

The insidiousness of this deal is that Obama is off the hook for his debilitating spending, keeps most increases in place, gets him past the elections, and most importantly, for a party whose only tool is verbal marshal art, gives the progressives a plethora of ammunition to use against Repubs backed up by

d55may   August 1st, 2011 - 10:45 am

Nora's camp has been with them all along. She is a feral dog for the progressive party and probably paid for by Soros and his shadow party.

ScarySoetoro   August 1st, 2011 - 10:49 am

I have no doubt the Obama administration or DNC wrote out the entire thing for her to say. Sounded more like a campaign speech than any question a real journalist would ask. Truly the most "transparent" administration ever.

Canserveitif   August 1st, 2011 - 10:49 am

Abort it…wipe out Liberalism.

Democratssuck   August 1st, 2011 - 10:50 am

"We" got nothing?

"We" ????? What about the USA? And us??? Why is it always us vs. them? You are such a freaking liberal hack it isn't even funny.

claspur   August 1st, 2011 - 10:50 am

It's like Limbaugh said in his first hour, If the Tea Party won anything, Soetoro wouldn't be agreeing to what got settled in the senate.

richcapitalist   August 1st, 2011 - 10:51 am

What is this "WE" $HIT…are you French???

workinglate   August 1st, 2011 - 10:51 am

Rush (the freaking awesome 3 man bad from Canada, not Mr. Limbaugh) was right:

"It's the fool on television, getting paid to play the fool"

Can't imagine a bigger fool. Well, on second thought I think that room was chock full of them…

Panchester   August 1st, 2011 - 10:52 am

Or you are big corporation supporting Obama – like GE. Then you don't pay taxes.

H2K   August 1st, 2011 - 10:52 am

Have Nora send her extra money to:
IRS
Washington, DC

SupernaturalCat   August 1st, 2011 - 10:54 am

Wow, I didnt know the media was allowed to use their job at the WH to make a stand politically during a press conf….I think its time to also look into some of their credentials …..what a sin that reporters get to sit there and demand higher taxes… I hope her pass gets revoked. Throw these f*cking left wing traitors out completely! PS NORA TWITTERED THAT OBAMA WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHEN SHE MEANT TO SAY OSAMA..THE WOMAN IS AN IDIOT!!!!

NotKennedy   August 1st, 2011 - 10:54 am

Underneath the makeup and pretensious self importance, she remains little more than an AP stringer, banging the drum for her salvation in the name of Obama. Obama the lie, the whole lie and nothing but a lie. And the media are his prophets.

jleinf   August 1st, 2011 - 10:55 am

You would think "We" would be happy with not paying any income tax. WTH? everyone should contribute something.

MSMediacritic   August 1st, 2011 - 10:56 am

I don't see how anyone could consider her an objective journalist anymore.

scottc0317   August 1st, 2011 - 10:57 am

Exactly right: by "we" she does not mean "we journalists" but "we Liberals." She tipped her hand.

imissgw   August 1st, 2011 - 10:57 am

I was watching the press conference when "isn't it obvious I'm a lib" Roberts asked the question. I about fell from my chair. Who's this "WE" she's talking about? Media bias in plain view!

scottc0317   August 1st, 2011 - 11:00 am

If Mr. Krugman means that then he should start promoting someone else as Obama's contender in the Democrat primaries.

wohlfguy   August 1st, 2011 - 11:00 am

"We"? The 10% of the population that is far-left?

NewRiverPatriot   August 1st, 2011 - 11:01 am

The tax increases will come from a committee and will be behind closed doors and out of sight. That is the only reason obama supports it!

NO to this bill!! No debt increase!!

Doobin   August 1st, 2011 - 11:06 am

Nora, your blue slip is showing!

DEMonkiller   August 1st, 2011 - 11:07 am

Professionalism in journalism is dead, and has been dead for many years. They've become activists who seek to influence the news instead of reporting on it. And they wonder why the American people are so cynical.

BruthaV   August 1st, 2011 - 11:07 am

I believe it was a Freudian slip; however, members of MSM appear to be less concerned about hiding their Liberal biases.

Grace656   August 1st, 2011 - 11:08 am

Krugman also thinks the trillion dollar stimulus isn't working because it wasn't enough. He mistakes our government for a democracy when it is actually (supposed to be) a republic. A democracy is subject to mob mentality – and democrats work best when whipping up a mob, most often paying good money for it.

Krugman's just mad that it's not his mob winning.

cothel   August 1st, 2011 - 11:12 am

"No revenue"
Common' Nora. Ya got a Republican congress in the pockets of the rich, lead (scared) by idiots of the Tea Potty, dealing with a president who has no backbone. What did you expect?

rfb10   August 1st, 2011 - 11:15 am

Nice to see the representative from the moveon.org reporters?

HURRICANEPAUL   August 1st, 2011 - 11:15 am

"And we got nothing".

When she says "we", she means Obama and his Liberal Media cheerleaders.

Oh, this is a huge defeat for Chris Matthews, "Special Ed" Schultz, Wolf Blitzer, Candy Crowley and the entire cast of Obama cheerleaders in the Liberal Media.

Huge loss for them = good news for "we the people".

smellyfinger   August 1st, 2011 - 11:16 am

Here are the facts Libtards,
with a debt of 15 trillion + the 9 trillion
Congress stole from Social Security over the years, the end of the Ponzi is at last plain to see.

BarakObama   August 1st, 2011 - 11:20 am

Nora, you were just too honest. Caught! Another possible NBC show.

Nora is so far up Obama's butt I can see her coming out his ears.

Sister_Mary   August 1st, 2011 - 11:20 am

The one thing that almost everyone did agree with was how “idiotic”, “moronic”, “pathetic”, “self-serving”, “arrogant”, and “scary” President Obama’s role was during the process.

Read more: http://socyberty.com/history/white-house-insider-...

madbowler6   August 1st, 2011 - 11:22 am

wow. what a joke this woman is (btw, I call her "Mongo" now, which was the name of Matt Dillon's ficticious "retard" from There's Something About Mary. "Mongo" was the guy who had "a forehead like a drive-in movie theater" screen, which is what Nora's head looked like when she asked the Tea Party congressman if he had an economics degree).

I'm asking the question: is there ANYTHING she could have said that could have possibly exposed her more as an unobjective leftist? a slip-up like this likely would have cost a "reporter" his/her job 30 years ago. she is a joke and an embarrassment to the profession. Mongo "We Got Nothing" O'Donnell. well done, lady. well done.

ToddM   August 1st, 2011 - 11:22 am

You should look at Democrat donors. You want to see rich? You're right though. Obama HAS NO SPINE! He's a liberal. He sold the country down the tubes for his fat cat friends in the unions.

towerhill66   August 1st, 2011 - 11:22 am

she is so stupid she just confirmed what we already knew….we got nothing…..we the liberal media….stupid cow!

NotKennedy   August 1st, 2011 - 11:22 am

Let's see you outdo that one, Dan!

lostlegends1872   August 1st, 2011 - 11:29 am

Nothing like hearing an self-indictment right out of the defendant's mouth. Ya got to love it.

RUFUS2009   August 1st, 2011 - 11:29 am

Nora Nora always the Bora..

mr-spike007   August 1st, 2011 - 11:31 am

WE as in OUR Communist Regime, that Rat Whore Said What her an her Fellow Rat Traitors Feel the Whore Not only Unmasked
Exposed Herself but look at the Quislings Sitting with her THEY Agree with the Whore I Would Not be Surprised if we Don't Find
out that Whore,an the rest of the Rats are on this Red Chinese Puppet the Chimp in Chief's Payroll….that whore mite as well
be working for Radio Moscow.

Geeeez   August 1st, 2011 - 11:38 am

Why is she sitting on the front row acting like a real journalist?

doublezero12   August 1st, 2011 - 11:38 am

They don't even pretend any more. Is it a wonder why the American people have stop listening to the MSM and turned to fair and balanced outlets like Drudge. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/study-all-major-n...

SassyFrasse   August 1st, 2011 - 11:40 am

~ Obama's Alinsky DNC Media Caucus!

ACKtheo   August 1st, 2011 - 11:43 am

yep, and if the libtards want more revenues i welcome them all to send in what they think would be fair according to their stardards.

scovellj   August 1st, 2011 - 11:44 am

I like how they are calling taxes "revenue." Liberals and their word games.

John Galt   August 1st, 2011 - 11:47 am

The beauty of this is that it demonstrates that the main stream media is no longer objective journalists but instead, they are a wing of the democratic party.

Not that this is a surprise but it does continue to remove the cover of objectivity that these people try to use.

Personally I don’t have a lot of hope for the future. When I see people like Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Barney Frank, Babs Boxer, Shiela Lee Jackson, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Walters, Dianne Feinstein etc. etc. get re-elected, it tells me that we have reached “critical mass” when it comes to stupid people in this country.

Just my opinion.

EOD   August 1st, 2011 - 11:52 am

She is not a true American, as she is a Flaming Liberal, so, she should get nothing in this Nation.

sgt_stedanko   August 1st, 2011 - 11:52 am

who's this "we"?
you got a mouse in your pocket you dumb b!7ch??
before you start getting all sanctimonious, how about you quit your job with the tax exempt GE corporation first.
just a thought….

Bullonay   August 1st, 2011 - 11:53 am

You will get your "blue ribbon" committee and $7 trillion, what else do you need, Nora??? Don't worry, WE will remind everyone about this "deal" next fall…

ChiTownTom   August 1st, 2011 - 11:54 am

No…but she does have a frog in her pocket.

ChiTownTom   August 1st, 2011 - 11:56 am

Looks kind of red to me… ;-)

WyckHolland   August 1st, 2011 - 11:57 am

Whoops!! Your slip is showing, Nora.

onlyparadise   August 1st, 2011 - 11:58 am

boehner and occonell are rinos

get rid of them..

this is a smoke and mirror side show to pretend the republican won

the republican party is dead as we know it

we are going to have more massive deficit which can not be sustaiin to support illegals and worthless welfare programs
while dumbing down America

ChiTownTom   August 1st, 2011 - 12:00 pm

I think "WE" just found Al Sharpton's future replacement over at MSNBGLT.

drdaily   August 1st, 2011 - 12:01 pm

We just gave your messiah 2.5 Trillion, you shrill!

TANSTAAFL   August 1st, 2011 - 12:03 pm

"What's this "we" $hit, Kemosabe?"

drdaily   August 1st, 2011 - 12:04 pm

But your Messiah had no problem stealing an additional lump sum of $2. 5 trillion from your great great grandchildren. Maybe you need to take it up with him?

OddertFrog   August 1st, 2011 - 12:05 pm

That is unbelievable. They don't even pretend anymore. We? She must be moonlighting for some french press agency.
If her boss had a pair, she'd be doing weather reports from the janitor's closet until she quit the contract.

Wish I had a front row seat to bi:-) tch about what I didn't get.

She is PURE stupid.

TANSTAAFL   August 1st, 2011 - 12:07 pm

The Democrats OWN the debt crisis now.

spaceracer423   August 1st, 2011 - 12:11 pm

"Why is she [Nora] sitting on the front row acting like a real journalist?"

isnt that Helen Thomas' old seat?

mr-spike007   August 1st, 2011 - 12:11 pm

How Long do you Think You would be Alive if that Whore Knew you had Solid Proof that the Chimp in Chief is a Red Chinese
Spy?…..That Whore Would Rat in less then a Heart Beat to the Regime's Gestapo That YOU Know.

KevinT633   August 1st, 2011 - 12:12 pm

How much does that girl make? maybe she should give more to Obama and his thugs

DEMonkiller   August 1st, 2011 - 12:17 pm

I agree Nora, you got nothing. Nothing in your head!

ocjohn   August 1st, 2011 - 12:17 pm

I'll give her something…..

SassyFrasse   August 1st, 2011 - 12:29 pm

"CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell: ‘Where are the Tax Revenues?’, ‘We Got Nothing’"

- In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

hispanicman   August 1st, 2011 - 12:29 pm

Fox news reporter asks tough questions and he's accused of being an arm of the GOP – CBS comes right out and says "we got nothing" and it just zooms right past Mr. Carney.

Rogue100   August 1st, 2011 - 12:32 pm

Paul Who? Oh yeah, he's the other guy who got a Nobel prize……geez, they hand those things out like Cracker Jack prizes

– (wait, can I still say "Cracker" Jack?)

mackycat   August 1st, 2011 - 12:32 pm

I was thinking of starting a website dedicated to reporting the taxes paid by celebs and politicans and the lengths they go to hide income and game the system. I think it would be great to point out that to many of these people, "tax the rich" is a term which always refers to somebody else. How about "taxesoftherichandfamous.com" ?

CanDan99   August 1st, 2011 - 12:32 pm

Take from them Everything – and give them Nothing

from the movie 300

some cheese with that Whine B!t@h

Subsalior   August 1st, 2011 - 12:36 pm

All I wanna' know is WHO DID she sleep with to get her job……

Nochangeleft   August 1st, 2011 - 12:36 pm

I pay them out of my pay check every month along with a lot of other people, idiot.

rojo_conservito   August 1st, 2011 - 12:43 pm

"They got everything they wanted…"

No media bias there, huh?

hezaAZsmitty   August 1st, 2011 - 12:49 pm

The opera ain't over til the fat lady sings………………Pelosi is haveing fits trying to herd her cats in the house, and the Senate has members who will fillibuster.

Geeeez   August 1st, 2011 - 12:49 pm

I sent a comment to CBSNEWS. Not that I ever thought they were un-biased, but that really takes the cake.

Small Thoughts   August 1st, 2011 - 12:51 pm

Liberal bias in the media. What a surprise.

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