Jeffrey Lord, writing over at The American Spectator‘s blog, offers a great gotcha moment courtesy of Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer.

Like all others in the mainstream media, Schieffer didn’t think much of the adultery allegations against John Edwards during the 2008 presidential campaign. During an interview on the Don Imus show, Schieffer sounds far more gullible than a (supposedly) serious broadcast journalist of his stature has any right to be.

Imus asks if CBS had any plans to investigate further. Schieffer replies:

Well, you know I saw that this morning. I believe that — I believe that’s a story that we will be avoiding, because it appears to me that there’s absolutely nothing to it. I’m told that another — a man says that the child is his. I’m told that the woman who seems to be pregnant says it’s not his. So I guess — I guess we’re going to pass on that. Unless you come up with some new information on this, Don.

Schieffer swallowed that one hook, line, and sinker.