He’s right, it’s a bullshit question.

He’s right. Americans are lazy and obese.

He’s right. Teddy Roosevelt is dead.

Tell that to the French who bitch and moan about a 40 hour work week.

“I see an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why [Americans] are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined.”

He’s right. We’re worse than Greece. We get away with it because we have the global reserve currency. Other countries just keep giving us money.

Instead, Morris should have written his book about Taft, who followed Roosevelt. Taft was fat.

he has some very good points. i work with a lot of Filipinos and Mexicans, and to describe them as “dynamic’” is almost understatement. i come from an old school work-your-ass off family that even sarah palin would approve of (my mother called FDR a communist on her deathbed) so i can hang with them. most of my fellow americans couldn’t hang. they don’t have the drive. the third world is pretty freakin’ hardcore, and they’ll outwork (and in the long run out earn) john q. american any day of the week.

ariana (HUFF-and-PUFF) helps put the LUNATIC in lunatic-left.

For those that don’t know of her lunatic history, fact is she was once a solid, responsible conservative republican! Then her rich husband divorced her and she went totally, completely insane and, naturally, sunk into the DARK SIDE of d-crat socialism.

Clearly, she still is in desperate need of psychological counseling – like most d-crat socialists – to correct her outrageously flawed views of America and Americans and to stop the destructive self-loathing from which she – like all d-crat socialists – suffers.

I suggest this man go live in Greece or any of a number of crumbling European countries who’s population is now rioting over a 62 year old retirement age or a 40 hour work week,which is finally changing because a lack of work ethic and lack of desire to improve themselves beyond a status quo level has caught up to them once the economy slowed.These countries are being forced to actually live within their means and actually be productive beyond the minimum.

I find it offensive that this man is writing books about American heroes and yet seems to detest those same people.I also find it ridiculous that he would have such a problem with the question asked and believe his anger was a cover up for a lack of intellect at a level where the capability to answer was possible.

Many of us Americans still have the good old fashioned work ethic. However, I do see us as a spoiled lot.

There are many Americans who are lazy, that’s why they vote for politicians, such as Obama, who promise to give them things. One segment of society votes for a government that promises handouts. The rest of us just want to be left the heck alone, allowed to keep more of our own money and want the government to only do what the Constitution allows.

But we do live in a nation where our poor are actually overweight, have cars and flat screen tvs.

More Liberty said:
There are many Americans who are lazy, that’s why they vote for politicians, such as Obama, who promise to give them things. One segment of society votes for a government that promises handouts. The rest of us just want to be left the heck alone, allowed to keep more of our own money and want the government to only do what the Constitution allows. But we do live in a nation where our poor are actually overweight, have cars and flat screen tvs.

I don’t see many people that you speak about in your posts of living off the government. I work with the poor everyday and that is not whst I see happening.

This statement is not true.

There are many Americans who are lazy, that’s why they vote for politicians, such as Obama, who promise to give them things. One segment of society votes for a government that promises handouts.

The really poor people DO NOT even vote. Unfortunately they coukd care less who is in office in Washington. I am not saying there arn’t some people that play the system but your using a broad bush to paint this picture is wrong.. Those same people have done it and will continue no matter who is in office. Clinton and a Republican Congress changed the welfare system for the better. They no longer receive cash and if they are lucky they get food stamps and health care for their children.

If the people that voted for Obama thought he was going to take special care of them were sadly mistaken.

The poor in our country are not like the “poor” you see in the rest of the world. Look to South America, Africa, and Asia and look at their poor. They are skinny because they actually don’t have food to eat, while our “poor” have food to eat which just so happens to junk food. I travel all over the world, mostly to third-world countries, and our poor do not compare to the actual poor of other nations.

BlackWidow said:
The really poor people DO NOT even vote.

They do if groups like ACORN find them…

Here is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI

“I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage… If I help Obama, he’s gonna help me.”

She believed this because this is how he was portrayed. Now it’s been proven that he was either a liar, or just ignorant.

“because you cannot pluck people out of the past and expect them to comment on what’s happening today.”

But these filthy right wing rodents on this blog and elsewhere do that very thing all the time when they claim to know what the founding fathers would think about our existing laws.

Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack said:
filthy right wing rodents

Billy the Exterminator is that you ?

Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack said:
“because you cannot pluck people out of the past and expect them to comment on what’s happening today.” But these filthy right wing rodents on this blog and elsewhere do that very thing all the time when they claim to know what the founding fathers would think about our existing laws.

Fact: They were a bunch that had God in mind of their daily lives and had respect on the non God is a myth believer to them that doesn’t believe. If they did it any other way at the time the Democrats wouldn’t be a second party today.

Morris must have shopped at Wal-Mart this morning.

He’s right, so many Americans are lazy, obese, complacent and perplexed after so many years of welfare and entitlement programs.

He is right, Americans are fat, lazy and ignorant and now wondering why we suck. Keep saying USA is #1, maybe you will believe it. Chickens have come home to roost you lazy, stupid freaks.

@chatmansuckass I sure hope you don’t use medicare or social security you hypocritical, old bastard.

chatmandu002 said:
He’s right, so many Americans are lazy, obese, complacent and perplexed after so many years of welfare and entitlement programs.

I drove through Detroit just last week and I have no idea what this man is talking about.

dhg said:
I find it offensive that this man is writing books about American heroes and yet seems to detest those same people.I also find it ridiculous that he would have such a problem with the question asked and believe his anger was a cover up for a lack of intellect at a level where the capability to answer was possible.

I didn’t find he said he detested Americans at all. He was expressing his disapointment at how he’s seeing Americans as many are seeing many Americans now. How unfit many have become. how lazy so many have become. How unknowledgeable about other countries, even their own country so many have become. Check around you. You can read and hear news about the US, even everyday unimportant news, in most countries newspapers, TV, & radio news stations. Some actually teach some US history along with their own. Not something you see being done much in the good old USA.
Ask your next door neighbor, or your friends what they have learned about New Zealand? Holland? Russia? Canada? France? China? Italy? The UK and so on. Most will say not much or that they could care less.

why dont you tell us how you really feel???

I’m linking to the Wikipedia entry because it provides a brief explanation without a lot of deep or political thought, but I find it interesting that Edmund Morris — the person who controversially fictionalized an authorized presidential biography and inserted a non-existent character — is questioning Schieffer’s “presentist” questions.

Sure, they’re bullshit and only exist to give the guest a wide berth to recount almost any anecdote, but considering his response to Bob, I wonder how Mr. Morris feels about his own plot device and whether his position has evolved since he defended it, so many years ago.

Glenn Beck’s tears are real!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m692Tqbnbxo

Bobomatic said:
Tell that to the French who bitch and moan about a 40 hour work week.

No doubt, the French have their flaws too. As do many countries. But is this really where we are, pointing at the kid in the next desk and saying “Well, HE did it too!” I travel in and outside the U.S. often, and we Americans are fooling ourselves.

Forget anybody else… we ARE fatter as a nation, we ARE lazy — both intellectually and in industry — to a level that would shame our forefathers, and we ARE perversely sentimental and even passionate about our own high level of ignorance.

Somehow, it’s become patriotic to never understand the facts of the stories we get behind, to bring sugar cookies to schools to dole out to fat teenagers as if that sends a better message, and to pump our fists in the are about just about anything that involves rolling over our enemies and allies alike.

Worst of all, it’s our self-proclaimed “patriots” who most passionately pursue the course of our own demise. But they’re too willfully ignorant to understand that this is exactly what they’re doing. As you’ll witness in the flames that will likely follow this post.

I’m reading Chernow’s amazing bio of Washington, the ultimate book on the amazing athlete-hero who was our greatest POTUS yet! I want to read Morris’s book having just finished “Mornings on Horseback” by McCullough.

One question: how was a media whore third-rate gold digger like HuffPuff on a panel with two distinguished scholars and a first-rate journalist like Woodward? Morris is right on all counts, including the senile question of the seriously gaga Schieffer!!

If Bob Schieffer is the face of CBS News, then the folks their ought to chip in and buy a mask.

BlackWidow said:
This statement is not true.

BlackWidow, I hope it’s not. I know many hard working Americans, and this does not apply to them at all.

But how do other countries, as a whole, see us? BTW, I’m not so worried about what they think about us as I am about what this means we should do.

If they think we’re the smartest, fastest, best horse in the race, we’re probably doing OK. If they really see us as fat, lazy slobs who are unwilling to get off our duffs and work, or quit partying and go to school and learn, or do what is necessary, WE need to change ourselves. We don’t need to “do it their way” we never have and never should, but we need to do what is necessary to excel.

Nice to hear an honest expression of opinion for a change. It’s a wonder Schieffer didn’t fall out of his chair. He’s used to politicians who toe the party line.

Hey, constable80, sounds like a lot of teen angst going on there. Better watch the language on the internet or your momma will give you a good dose of strap…

Edmund Morris may be a stuffy British African (He was born in Kenya before Obama’s father’s failed ‘socialist’ takeover!), but he’s right on the money. He was commenting on how we’ve allowed ourselves to be propagandized to death by the ‘we are the exceptional ones’ crowd of make believe rugged individulists. Our arrogance has blinded us to the reality that we have sold out for a mess of pottage. What this country need is a genuine populist movement to get the kleptocracy off our backs. Don’t you Tea Party people know that democracy suffers when we let a small number of people take over an increasingly larger percentage of our economy. And it’s this kleptocracy that’s behind the Teabagging movement. Do a little studying up on Dick Armey, Rupert Murdoch, Newt Gingrich, the Koch Brothers, Richard Scaife Mellon, etc. These cynics are even worse than the Democratic Liberal elite. By the way, the rightwing hysterics on this website are much more vituperative and vulgar than their leftwing counterparts. It would be great if they could tone down their personal attacks and practice some self censorship before this website starts censoring them.

I think it is more accurate to say that Morris is referring to our inability to limit government spending. We know that Social Security and Medicare cannot be sustained, that Medicaid is bankrupting the states, and now we have ObamaCare which will drive the country into intolerable levels of debt at hyperspeed.

And politicians are unwilling to tackle these problems because they know they will be punished by the voters.

Papinian said:
Glenn Beck’s tears are real!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m692Tqbnbxo

That was a photo shoot. He wasn’t trying to fool anyone. But apparently you are very gullible and easy to fool. GBR would be proud of you.

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If he was talking about the youth of today I’d agree with him. Long ago if you showed up late or underperformed there was a very good chance you’d be terminated. Today’s youth will give you the look like you’re lucky they showed up.You have to counsel and write them up at least 3 times before you terminate and most will still collect unemployment. He’s wrong about the foreigners.They come for education and the fact they consider us the best. Most stay because it’s better than where they were at. Workwise they’ll impress initially and then fall into the same patterns of lazy americans. BTW I’m really concerned when the bill comes to $8.06 and I offer up a dime after the cashier has rung in the $20.00 that a manager needs to be called. There is something unnerving about what’s going on in our school systems.

In January 2011, Schieffer will predictably lament in his haughty voice, “It is becoming clear to me that I can no longer successfully push the Liberal agenda from my elite media perch and I will therefore resign my position immediately.” Well, we can hope I suppose.

@moreliberty ““I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage… If I help Obama, he’s gonna help me.”

She believed this because this is how he was portrayed. Now it’s been proven that he was either a liar, or just ignorant.”

I thought he portrayed himself as a strong progressive,,.,ha ha boy was I wrong on that. Is he a liar or ignorant? Us on the left with any clue are asking that same question

Doug Powers: Author Edmund Morris Appears on ‘Face the Fat, Lazy, Undisciplined Nation’
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/28/edmund-morris/

SmartAlec said:
That was a photo shoot. He wasn’t trying to fool anyone. But apparently you are very gullible and easy to fool. GBR would be proud of you.

ha ha ha look alecs sticking up for glens tears,,.those tears are real man, those are fuckn real!!!.. ha ha ha

Alot of Americans are fat and Lazy. They think “America is #1″ is their birthright and not something they have to work for

Classic joint. You’ll never here a Politician say it like it is. All you here is Greates this great that all the BS. lol, this is classic, capiche.

Author Edmund Morris sees the Tea Party and thinks they represent all Americans. They don’t. He describes the Tea Party accurately as “….. an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why [Americans] are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined.”

i like his joke about being an African – American.

Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack “Filthy right wing rodents…”

And he’s offended that Fox ‘sells hate’. See any irony there, Foxy?

Is this what you people do sit on you buts at a computer all day or may be there is a video game in between get a life Stop complaining and do something.

Most Americans who have jobs today are working harder then 3 people worked 10 years ago. Don’t you tell me Americans are lazy!

Only an ignorant fool who would say that!

The people who are getting money to help them survive are barley making it it that! You try eating on food stamps or living on unemployment insurance and see how far your money goes!

What the heck ever happen to the compassion in this country for those who have less the we do?b The only compassion I am hearing is for the top 1% who need to have their tax brakes continues.

Such ignorant fools!!! Wake up!