AP continues to portray Dubya very positively

[Number9Dream]

Another example of how the media continues to portray Dubya in a positive light, rather than as the worst President in U.S. history.

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/politics/sns-ap-distinctly-bush-analysis,0,5093933.story?page=1

snip> "Bush tends to ask questions that get right to the nub of a sticky issue. His top aides speak regretfully about how the country never got to see that side of him, even after all this time. They describe a man who is deeply inquisitive, not blithely incurious as much of the world thinks."

snip> "Ivy League educated, Bush is good-natured about his verbal trip-ups. Yet he appears to have grown a bit more methodical in public, as if searching carefully for the right words. Invariably, though, people who talk to him privately — historians, journalists, dissidents — come away with a very different impression of a meticulous thinker."

snip> "The toughest moments for him come when he meets the grieving families of the troops he sent to war. Or when he meets severely wounded troops in recovery. Many of the hurting tell Bush they want to get back out in active duty. He is moved by the sacrifice."

[MADem]

1. From a sales perspective, that makes sense.

"Nostalgia" sells better than crapping on someone on the way out the door. They'll save the crapping for later, is my guess. The "theme" is change, hope, beliee, and you don't want people spitting and shaking their fists on the one hand, and trying to be "hopeful" on the other. There's too wide a range of emotion, there. It'll piss people off reading the news.

Even when Nixon resigned, they shit on him until he cried UNCLE, and then, they handled him more sweetly. Then they crapped on FORD about his pardon, but eventually, that sort of faded into a dull, grudging resentment. Then, much later, they started flinging crap again at both Nixon and Ford, which brought us Carter. And then, later still, Nixon was "rehabilitated" as a foreign policy sage.

And then, even later still, when these "N word" and "GD Jeeeeewwwwwww" tapes started coming out, co-starring Billy "Presidential Pastor" Graham, he was back in the dog house again. Now, they've made a completely unnecessary movie about Frost and Nixon (go to the ORIGINAL TAPES, people--those interviews were BRILLIANT and FASCINATING) so Nixon is back on the upswing again...slightly. If we get close to "serious" war, they'll pull out Nixon's "What about Nukes" in Vietnam, tape again, where he urges Kissenger "For Chrissake, Henry, I just want you to THINK BIG!!!" That'll put him on the shit list again!

So too, will it be with Bush. We're not done with him. He'll be in and out and in and out for many years to come. As time passes, more people will talk.

And with all of the covert actions The Wee Cowboy has no doubt started around the globe, it could well be that Obama may be handed a Bay of Pigs in the early days of his Presidency (remember Biden's "tested" remark? He wasn't talking out his ass...he was just shooting off his intel mouth, I suspect). We'll see. Keep your larders stocked, kids!

[Cha]

2. The corporatemedia is our

Public Enemy # 1.

[treestar]

3. "Meticulous thinker?"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Thrill]

4. Whats new? They have carried the GOP water for the last 7 yrs

[firedupdem]

5. Ridiculous. That drunk fucker had no business in the White

House in the first place. There is nothing they can say to make me feel anything but disgust for this guy. He's been a horrible president. We are at war when we don't need to be, our economy is fucked, and the rest of the world lost a lot of respect for us under his "leadership."

He needs to go away and be happy he's not locked up where he should be.