"The weird relationship between the DC press and the Bush administration"

[impik]

"There was something truly weird about the relationship between the DC press and the Bush administration that I never could quite understand. It's like he was their president somehow, the one they grew up with before he regenerated into that weird guy with the funny name. And they keep rooting for his return. I don't think the press is especially hostile to Obama, though they inevitably run with whatever right wing talking point comes through the puke funnel that day, but Bush...he was the one, their first boyfriend or something".

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2010/04/they-just-cant-quit-him.html

[Cha]

1. But, the "press" didn't give a crap about the country

..they're useless.

[lurky]

2. "...but Bush...he was the one, their first boyfriend or something."

:rofl:

[DefenseLawyer]

3. The ultimate goal of all of those chumps is to be an "insider"

not to be a journalist. You can't get anymore inside than W. He's the epitome of everything they think is cool. It has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with being a member of the club.

[emulatorloo]

4. "whatever right wing talking point comes through the puke funnel that day"

What a way with words. "Puke Funnel" pretty much sums it up.

[uponit7771]

5. I remember Couric in the APC....that to me was the tell tale

[blogslut]

6. I think it was a kind of Stockholm Syndrome/PSTD thing

The DC press experienced the 9-11 attacks first-hand. They were traveling with Dubya when it happened and of course, there's the Pentagon and the belief that the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was headed for the White House. Initially, the DC pressies but BushCo a lot of slack and when one of them went off the reservation, they were condemned as unpatriotic. They bought the magic act because they sincerely believed that they had some sort of bond with the Bush Administration.

You know what day was the day that I think the scales began to fall from their eyes? I wish I could name the exact date but I remember the briefing clearly. The press secretary could have been Ari but I'm pretty sure it was Scotty. It was a briefing held right after all of Capitol Hill had been cleared because some goon flew into the protected airspace over the White House. The problem was, nobody told the WH Press Corps that something was going on - that they were possibly, personally in danger. They were made to sit, clueless in the WH basement and when the WH Press Secretary finally showed up, the DC press was pisssseeed. The bond was broken. Big Daddy Bush wasn't their protector at all. They were on their own...

[Jennicut]

7. He had "nicknames" for them. He was their buddy. Obama has a healthy skepticism of their

need to be stroked.

[libodem]

8. Ahhhh....first boyfriend.....*swoon*

like your first rentboy, Jeff Bulldog Gannon. Special relationship, over night in the guest register, Press boyfriend.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Cause it is only because of them that he became President......

all of those "The votes have already been counted with the 100 flags in the background"
stories,

Perhaps it was those promised tax cuts.

Or perhaps he gave them losta stories with those wars he started.