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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDick Morris: Media ‘ruined’ Bush because Iraq war coverage was ‘too harsh’
Aww da po baby.
Conservative Fox News contributor Dick Morris is asserting that the news media ruined President George W. Bushs presidency because coverage of the Iraq war was too harsh.
During a Wednesday morning segment with Morris, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy pointed out that Arthur Brisbane, ombudsman for The New York Times, recently complained that the paper had been more critical of President George W. Bush while he was in office than it had been of President Barack Obama.
Its terrific that he said that, Morris explained. There are two factors that make the media liberal. One is that the reporters are liberal. But the other fact is that the media tends to react to what it last did badly. So for example, it was relatively mild toward Bush during the early years of his administration after 9/11, and then it over compensated by being too harsh during the Iraq war.
And then when Obama got elected they said, Oh, wow. We just ruined a presidency with Bush. Maybe well be nicer to Obama, he added. And I think you will begin to see a bit of pendulum swing against Obama even though the media itself is liberal.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/25/dick-morris-media-ruined-bush-because-iraq-war-coverage-was-too-harsh/
spanone
(135,802 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)than Dick Morris. How this fucking tool manages to make a career out of his idiocy is beyond me.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)JHB
(37,157 posts)...you don't notice how putrid your breath has gotten.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)was version 1.0).
Both stab-in-the back narratives are complete and utter horseshit.
Autumn
(45,012 posts)the fucking Iraq war WAS fucking harsh.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Get it? "Foot" note?
Good one!
Bake
Buns_of_Fire
(17,172 posts)Yo, Dickie-Poo, you toe-sucking fiend, you -- there's a damned good reason that people started turning against your precious ex-pResident Shit-Fer-Brains! Need anyone point out that even your sacred party is now distancing themselves from him?
Ishoutandscream2
(6,660 posts)Blue Owl
(50,325 posts)n/t
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)globally. It has nothing to do with his despicable wars, the Patriot Act, renditions, torture, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, outing Valerie Plame etc etc etc... nope, it's just that the fucking MEDIA was mean??
honestly, some days it's just not even worth it...
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)and was a primary vehicle for selling the fucking invasion/occupation! You right wingers make me sick!
Initech
(100,054 posts)TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)n/t
Rex
(65,616 posts)Maybe someone should tell DICK Morris that the war was started on illegal grounds and he should be calling for Bush to stand trial for war crimes.
Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)opinion had he been in Baghdad on this night:
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)I've never heard cheer-leading referred to as harsh coverage before.
Oh my.
pa28
(6,145 posts)Cutting and widespread criticism only began during Bush's second term. Only when everybody with a pair of eyes and two functioning brain cells could see we were knee deep in a disaster did the hard reporting begin.
Until that time editors and publishers allowed *no* dissent in the media. Speaking out was a good way to get yourself fired in fact (see Ashley Banfield). Meanwhile Bush propagandists like Judith Miller were allowed to lie to the public with complete impunity.
Republican are masters of the self-serving revision of history. Dick's example here is just another one of many.
supraTruth
(496 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,399 posts)I remember that anti-war activists and Michael Moore routinely outnumbered pro-war supporters in the corporate media during the run-up to the war and how the corporate media endlessly mocked Colin Powell's "performance" at the UN Security Council where he laid out the rationale for invading Iraq and how the UN Weapons Inspectors were lauded as heroes and given lots of airtime to refute the Bush (mis-)administration's rationale for invading Iraq.
Wait! What? You don't remember any of this either?
Of course, for those of us whom are sane and remember the whole of the Iraq war, coverage didn't get legitimately harsh until at least it was crystal clear that there were no WMDs to be found and our troops began taking heavy casualties from militants and people realized how much of an all around mess Iraq had become as a result of our invasion/occupation, which, unfortunately, did not really happen until AFTER Bush was safely re-elected.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)STFU, toe-licker.
Yavin4
(35,427 posts)I know. I know. That's three words, but Dick pissed me off.