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The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
Bob Beckel
Harmony
Exacerbate
Rarely
About
Only
Write
Tension
Highlighting
Role
Racial
Incidents
Media
Serve
Republicans just don't get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal.
Bob Beckel
Scandal
Idea
Get
American
Just
Republicans
Average
Average American
Serious
Thinks
If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.
Bob Beckel
Time
Better
Politicians
Other
Spend
Would
More
Both
Both Parties
Attacking
Better Off
Parties
Off
Less
Less Time
Each
Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.
Bob Beckel
Employees
Honorably
Federal
Perform
Most
Well
Tasks
When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and '80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn't recognize.
Bob Beckel
White
White House
Recognize
Would
Observant
Checking
House
Within
Were
Very
Often
Stop
Stopped
Anyone
Worked
Agents
Credentials
Very few undocumented workers come here to be unemployed.
Bob Beckel
Few
Come
Undocumented
Very
Unemployed
Workers
Here
There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
Bob Beckel
War
Islam
Doubt
No Doubt
Terrorists
Banner
Us
Acting
We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.
Bob Beckel
Intelligence
Legally
Need
Gather
If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.
Bob Beckel
Intelligence
Training
Location
Insane
Terrorist
Centers
Act
Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.
Bob Beckel
Health
People
Obamacare
See
Fail
Voted
Democrats
Expense
Want
Against
Republicans
Elections
Use
Who
Even
Like many other Americans, I'm tired of the U.S. taxpayer paying for foreign wars, especially when the countries we defend have raked in huge oil profits.
Bob Beckel
Tired
Taxpayer
Other
Countries
Like
Foreign
Huge
American
Oil
Paying
Wars
Many
Profits
Defend
Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.
Bob Beckel
Education
Alone
Good
Family
Blame
School
Impossible
Made
Poverty
Country
Cities
Schools
Parts
Decaying
Tax
Breakdown
Public
Public School
Many
Bases
Nearly
Charter schools are not a panacea.
Bob Beckel
Charter
Charter Schools
Schools
Panacea
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine
Work
Day
You
Sometimes
Word
Wish
Arrogant
Presumption
Would
Find
Vanity
Winged
Open
Had
Over
Call
Fits
Wonder
May
Just
Unfolding
Newspaper
Search
Each
Keen
Grave
Nearest
Bring
Need
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
Bob Edwards
You
Nobody Cares
Cares
Wearing
About
Nobody
Like
Looks
Tie
Wardrobe
Your
Even
I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
Bob Edwards
Voices
Box
Wanted
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
Bob Edwards
Operas
Listen
Soap
Soap Operas
Grandmother
Used
I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.
Bob Edwards
Time
Every
Station
Know
Got
Format
Who
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
Bob Edwards
Air
About
Wake
Office
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
Bob Edwards
Reading
Out
Find
Between
Been
Going
While
Asleep
Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.
Bob Edwards
Work
Live
Interviews
Out
Some
Advance
Hour
Sure
Because
Tape
Person
Get
Going
Maybe
Work Out
Right
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
Bob Edwards
Home
Bed
Go
Go Home
Noon
Up
Get
Again
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
Bob Edwards
You
Word
Distract
Picture
Broadcaster
Perfect
Spoken
Spoken Word
Pictures
Listener
Different
Little
Little Help
Created
Help
Showing
Different Things
Things
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
Bob Edwards
News
Conservative
Kind
Guy
Very
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
Bob Edwards
Me
You
Human Being
Before
Living
Relating
See
About
Genealogy
More
Read
Least
Impressive
Than
Personal
Human
Just
Being
Anything
Ever
Slavery
I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
Bob Edwards
Future
Predict
Able
Never
Been
Anything
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