CBS’ Bob Schieffer says “I didn’t ask Eric Holder about the New Black Panthers case because I’m incompetent”

Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer showed up on CNN’s Reliable Scoures on Sunday to answer charges that he showed his true left wing leanings when he neglected to ask Eric Holder about the New Black Panters case in an interview the previous weekend.

To paraphrase Schieffer’s defense, “I’m not a left winger, I’m just incompetent.”

Here’s the verbatim Q & A:

Kurtz: Let’s start with the obvious question. Why did you not ask Eric Holder in that interview about this former Justice official’s allegation that a case against the New Black Panther Party was dropped because of racial politics?

Schieffer: Well, it’s certainly a question that is a legitimate question to ask. And basically what happened was this all really became a story when the whistleblower came out and testified that he’d had to leave the Justice Department and so on. And, frankly, had I known about that, I would have asked the question. I was on vacation that week. This happened — apparently, it got very little publicity. And, you know, I just didn’t know about it.

Apparently Sunday show hosts don’t both reading up on what happened while the were on vacation before conducting an interview after returning from that vacation.

What? The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor? I didn’t know. I was on vacation.

Source: MediaBistro.com