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But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.

Bob Schaffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
BOB SCHAFFER

Public Relation Relations Trump
Well, you know, in any political campaign, you’re gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it’ll hurt the guy on the other side.
BOB SCHAFFER

Hurt People Thinking
The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
BOB SCHAFFER

Firsts Government Way
And as a result, I guess I’m just kind of a rubberneck. I’m kind of a – someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don’t think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
BOB SCHAFFER

Important People Thinking
There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
BOB SCHAFFER

Competition Guests Stories
The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government…
BOB SCHAFFER

Color Government Tired
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHAFFER

Cancer People Thinking
One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I’m interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
BOB SCHAFFER

Fun Mind People
I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
BOB SCHAFFER

Confidence Mistakes Self Way
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays – beyond their meaning – a factor in our economy.
BOB SCHAFFER

Christmas Football Thanksgiving
Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
BOB SCHAFFER

Betting Doubt Himself
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
BOB SCHAFFER

Answers Literature Trying
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
BOB SCHAFFER

Kindness Peaceful Prayer
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
BOB SCHAFFER

Accounts Newspapers Persons
But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Past People
But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Matter Miserable
Talk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
BOB SCHAFFER

Complicated Government Way
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander’s boss to get that changed.
BOB SCHAFFER

Boss Decision Thinking
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
BOB SCHAFFER

Eyebrows Moscow Pride
It’s no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
BOB SCHAFFER

Mean Perspective Trying
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
BOB SCHAFFER

Canada Children Mother
I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
BOB SCHAFFER

Jobs Literature Thinking
But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.
BOB SCHAFFER

Games People Smart
When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
BOB SCHAFFER

Dollars Inspirational Motivation
Government is just spending too much money.
BOB SCHAFFER

Government Spending
The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
BOB SCHAFFER

Friday Holiday Weekend
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
BOB SCHAFFER

Ballots Light Occasion Party

But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.

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But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.

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