Media Sour On Bush Press Conference--READ--you'll feel better---

[liarliartieonfire]

From CBS News: Excerpts from Headlines re:Bush


William Saletan, Slate.com:
" misunderstanding of the word 'credible,' however, isn't harmless. It's catastrophic. To Bush, credibility means that you keep saying today what you said yesterday, and that you do today what you promised yesterday... When the situation is clear and requires pure courage, this steadfastness is Bush's most useful trait. But when the situation is unclear, Bush's notion of credibility turns out to be dangerously unhinged. The only words and deeds that have to match are his. No correspondence to reality is required.”

Matthew Cooper, Time.com
"If anything Bush was defiant. He clung to the claim that weapons of mass destruction might be found in Iraq... He wished he’d created a Department of Homeland Security, but failed to mention that he had opposed it... Once again, the president portrayed the war with Iraq as an extension of the war on terror. It was all of a kind, Madrid trains, Iraqi insurgents, Jerusalem buses. It’s all one sinister ideology."

David Sanger, The New York Times:
"Mr. Bush drove home the singlemindedness that has become the hallmark of his presidency, his greatest strength in the eyes of his admirers and a dangerous, never-change-course stubbornness in the eyes of his detractors... He described an America chosen by God to spread freedom. He never used the word ‘crusade,’ which touched off a firestorm of criticism in the Muslim world when he uttered it soon after Sept. 11, 2001. But he described one.”

Ronald Brownstein, The Los Angeles Times
"Bush's performance is unlikely to stem anxiety among Republicans already uneasy about poor reviews for his State of the Union address in January and a subsequent appearance on NBC's ‘Meet the Press.’ ... no one could doubt Bush's conviction that invading and rebuilding Iraq is central to protecting America ... Yet with Iraq in turmoil, his fate in the November election may turn on whether a majority of Americans agree.”

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full story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/14/politics/main611892.shtml

[NJCher]

1. anybody read the last few lines at the link?

Huh?


Cher

[LittleApple81]

2. You mean this? I find it incredible. They cannot let him fail.

Nevertheless, Shales nails the fundamental point missed on most reporters, adding in closing, "By expressing tremendous confidence in his own judgment and actions, even to the point of not being able to recall a single mistake, it's likely Bush made Americans feel a renewed confidence as well."

[NJCher]

3. exactly

They line up all these comments that trash the fool and then conclude with that?

Huh?

It's not that uncommon, though. I've noticed before that there are articles that run him down and then boom, out of nowhere, are some comments about him that are positive and it makes no sense at all. I wonder if they're being told they have to provide "equal time" in their articles?


Cher

[Veggie Meathead]

4. No one appears to have the courage to ask the obvious

question: Mr.Bush, why do we have to call this scripted charade a press conference when nothing here is unrehearsed and all the questioners have been chosen for you?

[enough]

5. I don't understand why the "reporters" don't make THIS the issue.

Not a single followup question in that so-called press conference, even though lies and factual errors were hanging out all over.

The press in that room were either willing collaborators or fools.

[ixion]

6. "He looked baffled and incredulous"

Which is a sure sign that he knows he's lying, and is trying to cover up.

But of course, the media whores treat him with kid gloves, even when he is utterly trapped in his own web of lies for all to see.

sigh.

[Richardo]

7. Welcome to DU, Liar^2...

Great (and timely!) user name. :D

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