Editor&Publisher: Laura Bush Hits Media 'Drum Beat' on Iraq

[DeepModem Mom]

Laura Bush Hits Media 'Drum Beat' on Iraq
By E&P Staff
Published: December 14, 2006

NEW YORK -- Appearing on MSNBC this morning with Norah O’Donnell, Laura Bush blamed the media, when asked why only 21% of Americans, in a recent NBC poll, said they approved of her husband's Iraq policy.

“I do know that there are a lot of good things that are happening (in Iraq) that aren’t covered," she said. "And I think that the drum beat in the country from the media, from the only way people know what is happening unless they happen to have a loved one deployed there, is discouraging....

"There are also good things going on that people don't have a chance to see....Schools that are being built. There are parts of country that are rebuilding....So I'd like to see the media give a more balanced view of it."...

She said that she knows Americans "support the troops" and she hopes the troops keep that in mind when they see the media coverage.

The recently released Iraq Study Group report declared, "there is significant underreporting of the violence in Iraq. The standard for recording attacks acts as a filter to keep events out of reports and databases…For example, on one day in July 2006 there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported. Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence. Good policy is difficult to make when information is systematically collected in a way that minimizes its discrepancy with policy goals."

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[Tempest]

1. I love the E&P

They strip away the veneer and show the facts in all their ugliness.

[aaronbees]

19. Ah, me too

They've totally been a treasure in recent years, slicing out the spin.

[cally]

2. How many times can she do this?

She has high approval ratings because she's seen as as someone who is not involved in the battle. She was brought out for the election and got very little negative press. I wonder how long this will work.

[rodeodance]

3. gee Pickles---call Fox--

[calimary]

26. Beat me to it.

Hey, if Pox "news" can't get that "fair and balanced" coverage out there, what good is it? Or maybe THEIR reporters are too terrified to venture outside the Green Zone also? I guess even Rupert Murdoch doesn't have THAT much money to be able to buy her some nice coverage of the good stuff in the improved parts of Iraq. Why, they're just absolutely blossoming! She ought to go over there and check it out for herself!

:eyes:

[arewenotdemo]

4. put HER on the fucking ground in Iraq if it's going so swimmingly

and I don't mean in the Green Zone.

[Ilsa]

5. Has she been to the children's hospital she got one of her buddies

to build? They can't even use it because the plumbing doesn't work right. Another $50mil boondoggle for KBR or some other group.

Has she been to those schools to see that they are virtually empty because children were being kidnapped out of them? Or the teachers were being shot dead in front of the kids?

[saigon68]

31. No but her criminal husband kills children by the BOAT LOAD

[Demit]

6. Somebody give the LauraBot a shove—the recording is stuck.

[colorado_ufo]

7. Simply put, how the hell would she know?

[grytpype]

8. How many fucking schools do they need over there?

You know, there were schools in Iraq before we invaded. We didn't go over there to give them schools. So I don't know why the Bushbots keep harping on schools, do they think we're going to say, hey, we lost 3000 soldiers and there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, but at least the survivors have schools that they could go to if they don't get blown up on the way?

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

20. Thank You. My Thoughts Exactly! N/T

[BikeWriter]

32. Yep, we went there to give them democracy...

Hundreds of thousands have been freed of the bonds of Earth.

[BlueStater]

9. Dumb bitch

God, I really hate that woman. I hope I never from her or that piece of shit she's married to ever again once they leave office.

Actually, I take that back. If they happen to be tossed in the slammer, I wouldn't mind hearing their names for one last time.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Wow pass that excerpt of the report along to all your Freeper friends

who agree with Pickles.

[Barrett808]

11. The ISG report certainly put the "underreported good news" myth to rest

But I'm sure she hasn't read it.

[brentspeak]

12. Yes, schools are built over there -- and then they're blown up by insurgents

It's a total disaster. Not our troops' fault; her husband's fault.

[VegasWolf]

14. and then Halliburton replaces the school for another billion dollars. nt

[rocktivity]

13. ..

:boring:
rocknation

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

15. She now knows how we felt in the run up to the war

However, there are a couple of differences between then and now. First of all the drum beat now is accurate.

The drum beat then was Fox news, fake intelligence and Billy Bob all in a panic. All of this happened because her husband and his lying mouthpieces talked constantly about weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist.

Many, probably most intelligence pros, knew WMD claims were bullshit and many people here marched against the drum beat.

Poor Pickles, I feel your pain. I hope it gets much, much worse.

[Olney Blue]

16. Can a First Lady be impeached?

:grr:

[CBHagman]

28. Or at least drafted?

I can't believe the cheek of the Co-Dependent in Chief -- trotting out the outdated GOP talking point that the good news in Iraq is underreported. :eyes: I'm sure that if scores of people were turning up dead, some of them showing signs of torture, in Texas, the little light bulb would go on over her head. But it is not to be. I'd buy her a subscription to The Washington Post if I thought she could read.

[rebel with a cause]

29. don't draft her

draft her daughters, then see how good she thinks it is over there and how great they have it.

I never thought I hate someone as much as I do babara bush and ann colter (and all those lying bit**s like her).

[Cha]

17. ol' sourpuss was sure happy the

corporatemedia was beating the drums to go into Iraq, though, wasn't she?

Fucking twitch can't have it both ways.

[LuckyLib]

18. Yesiree, Mizzuz Boooosh: "the media, the only way

people know what is happening unless they happen to have a loved one deployed there." And those who have loved ones deployed are the only ones who can get the really good news. Those poor families live in terror each and every day that their loved ones will die for this absurd catastrophuck engineered by your husband.

[tblue37]

21. Not Pickles--pickled. (eom)

[young_at_heart]

22. She makes Nancy Reagan look like an angel

I never thought anyone could surpass Nancy in Stepford-type nastiness, but Laura takes the prize. If I hear one more stupid comment about "schools" being built (that's the ONLY thing they ever can say), I will throw up!

[David__77]

23. Rebuilding. Then redestroyed. Then rebuilding... on and on.

The point is that everything that is rebuilt is destroyed yet again. And so it will be until the occupation ends.

[tbyg52]

24. Bull

She has it exactly backward. It's the media's fault that more people didn't catch on sooner.

[llmart]

25. Does she have any loved ones there???

No? I didn't think so.

Then shut the fuck up. You, Stepford Laura, are inconsequential and so is what comes out of your mouth.

[underpants]

27. THE MEDIA SOLD THIS WAR THE MEDIA PROMOTED THIS WAR

THE MEDIA HAS COMPLETELY MISREPORTED THIS WAR

THE MEDIA HAS COMPLETELY COVERED FOR YOUR WORTHLESS HUSBAND

[Skittles]

30. when the media finally gets it right

it gets the bush panties all in a wad, doesn't it?

[goforit]

33. "I'm the Queen of nothing"...tra la la la la...la la la la

[otohara]

35. LOL

:rofl:

[Cass]

34. ...she knows Americans "support the troops"

She said that she knows Americans "support the troops" and she hopes the troops keep that in mind when they see the media coverage.

What is she doing to support the troops? I'd like to know this. Is she organizing toy drives for soldiers familes? Encouraging Americans to send cards and letters to our troops stationed overseas? What? These periodic lectures from her set my teeth on edge.