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Related: About this forumNostalgia: Bush gets booed at the 1/20/09 inauguration
Footage from MSNBC's coverage of Obama's first inauguration, with the voices of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Oh, well. The mention of Nixon's name still draws boos.
Some things never change.
I notice the Boehner didn't seem so weepy at that inauguration.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)I just cringe when we boo important people in public places.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)He lied, cheated and stole the Presidency, so he deserved the booing at the very least.
It's just too bad he didn't catch one of those eggs thrown at his motorcade. That would have been priceless.
So what did we get in exchange for the boos? 8 years of crap, a terrorist attack, two wars, corporate crime, administration crime, murder, torture, 2 recessions and a near collapse of the financial industry.
He wasn't an important person. He was a usurper.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)....instead, he gets a few boos and we are supposed to consider that excessive?
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Time to empty the dishwasher, feed the cat, and go to bed.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)....to the American people. He deserved it.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)judesedit
(4,437 posts)catbyte
(34,373 posts)and evil in his so-called heart.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)On one hand, I feel like perhaps it was in poor taste for them to boo Bush. But on the other hand, he didn't legitimately win in 2000 and he swiftboated Kerry in '04, he started several wars and got thousands of Americans killed over oil, his response was slow with Katrina, and he helped shrink the middle class in order to have tax cuts for the top 1%.
If it were me in the audience, I wouldn't have booed, but I definitely wouldn't have been applauding.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)and am damn proud of it.
the bastard deserved to be impeached. I have friend who is raising two kids without a father because of his Iraq war.
If hurt feelings from booing him is the worst he gets, then I'm 100% for bad form and would do it again.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)You're no longer working for him so just report the booing if you must and leave your opinions out of it...
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Anti-war celebrities appearing frequently on news networks included actors Tim Robbins, Mike Farrell, Janeane Garofalo, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon and director Michael Moore.[citation needed] Most of these celebrities were able to make anti-war comments in the media and receive little public criticism. However, in a widely publicized story, the country music band Dixie Chicks ignited boycotts and record burnings in the U.S. for their negative remarks about President Bush in a concert in London.[5]
MSNBC also brought the American flag back on screen and regularly ran a tribute called "America's Bravest" which showed photographs sent by family members of troops deployed in Iraq.[6] MSNBC also fired liberal Phil Donahue, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy,[7] a month before the invasion began and replaced his show with Iraq war coverage hosted by Keith Olbermann.[8][9] Shortly after Donahue's firing, MSNBC hired Michael Savage, a controversial conservative radio talk show host for a Saturday afternoon show.[10] Although Donahue's show had lower ratings than several shows on other networks, and most reports on its cancellation blamed poor ratings, it was the highest-rated program on MSNBC's struggling primetime lineup at the time of its cancellation.[11] During February "sweeps", Donahue's show averaged 446,000 viewers, compared to rival Connie Chung's 985,000 on CNN and Bill O'Reilly's 2.7 million on Fox News, according to Nielsen Media Research.[citation needed]
Comparing viewership from prewar to post war, MSNBC saw a 357% jump in ratings, while CNN went up 305%, and Fox News climbed 239%, according to Nielsen numbers.[citation needed] In overall numbers, Fox News was number one, followed by CNN, and then MSNBC.[12] It was a major success for Fox News, as many had believed CNN would reclaim the top spot, since it established itself with coverage from the 1990-1991 Gulf War.
In separate incidents, at least three different Western reporters were fired or disciplined due to their actions in covering the war. Peter Arnett, an NBC and National Geographic correspondent, was fired for giving an interview with Iraqi officials in which he questioned the United States' role and saying the "first war plan had failed."[13] Brian Walski of the Los Angeles Times was fired on March 31 for altering a photo of a U.S. soldier warning Iraqi civilians to take cover from an Iraqi aerial bombing.[14] Geraldo Rivera left Iraq after drawing a crude map in the sand during a live broadcast on Fox News, which raised concerns at the Pentagon that he was possibly revealing vital troop movements on air.[15]
One study has compared the number of insurgent attacks in Iraq to the number of "anti-resolve" statements in the US media, the release of public opinion polls, and geographic variations in access to international media by Iraqis. The purpose was to determine if insurgents responded to information on "casualty sensitivity." The researchers found that insurgent attacks spiked by 5 to 10% after increases in the number of negative reports of the war in the media. The authors identified this as an "emboldenment effect" and concluded "insurgent groups respond rationally to expected probability of US withdrawal."[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Iraq_War
Including: Journalist Peter Arnett was fired by MSNBC and National Geographic after he declared in an interview with the Iraqi information ministry that he believed the U.S. strategy of "shock and awe" had failed. He also went on to tell Iraqi State TV that he had told "Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government, and the willingness to fight for their country," and that reports from Baghdad about civilian deaths had helped antiwar protesters undermine the Bush administration's strategy. The interview was given 10 days before the fall of Baghdad.
I remember when Arnett was fired. I wondered why? He was providing information that the other "journalists" weren't. Overall thought, the media outlets were acting as Bush's cabanaboys. I saw remnants of the "America Held Hostage" campaign that saturated the airwaves during the Iranian hostage crisis.
We did get Keith Obermann, so there was a positive air to this journalistic abyss!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)I was well aware of the Phil Donahue episode and remember that early on MSNBC was anxious to support the Iraq invasion gin-up. They saw the wisdom of being the anti-Fox in fairly short order, but I see your point. I just wasn't thinking in the same terms. I just remember being disgusted with ALL the networks' early coverage.
underpants
(182,769 posts)good riddance
heaven05
(18,124 posts)I would have boooooooood loudly, to the high heavens. This bushmonkey POS! Responsible for untold grief to hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. He should, along with darth, be in court in the Hague!