I have never seen so many anti-bush editorials/letters in the paper.

[Bouncy Ball]

Never. I'm honestly pretty amazed at it, though I agree with every one of them. I've been checking Texas newspapers in four different cities--Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth and Austin. I don't know if it's just in the past week or so, but I actually have had a hard time finding any editorials or letters in FAVOR of bush or his administration. Even the ones that aren't openly negative aren't supportive. The most striking was today's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. Holy shit. Half of a full page from the editors about why they now think Iraq was a big mistake. They rah-rahed it before. Then every letter but one expressed the same negative sentiments about the war as the editorial.

My question: do you think the media (some of them, anyway) feel emboldened by the recent indictments and trouble that's surely still to come? Or was this backlash coming anyway?

[drb]

1. Check out the change in attitudes at fark.com....

It used to be rah-rah war, and now it's 95% the bush league are criminally incompetent. Just a random sample of America...

[HockeyMom]

2. Ratings

Media backs what the country wants. They now sense that the mood of the country is anti Bush and they are going with it.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. I noticed that when I checked out the Delay mug shot photoshop

contest thread about a week ago. DAYUM.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. MSM Has been D&D for five year's, We need a special committee..

on Information Distribution, and the infiltration of corporate theocracy in the editors room.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. I saw where bush* dropped 10 points in a month in overall approval

... in Texas.

I wonder if it's due in part to the hurricanes or if people here are just finally catching on.

Here's the link to the survey USA poll.
http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2005/50StatePOTUS1005SortedbyApproval.htm

[Bouncy Ball]

10. Slow learners are going to be the death of us all.

As well as people who won't learn from the past. Come on people, EVOLVE ALREADY.

[cassiepriam]

12. Bingo BB. Hope they evolve before we are all dead.

[jazzjunkysue]

20. Putting them in the white house isn't helping much, either.

"Fool me once...."

[wtmusic]

5. The backlash might have come anyway

but taken longer. As usual (these days) the media is waiting to see what's safe to say.

Those papers who are saying Iraq was a big mistake: do they have the guts to admit *they* also made a big mistake in "rah-rahing" it?

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Actually, in this case, yes.

The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram one I read online today shocked me in part because they DID admit and acknowledge that they once supported the idea (though with grave reservations, they say).

Also, they endorsed bush in 2004. Here was there gist of their endorsement: we are endorsing the bush we THOUGHT we were getting in 2000. Can you believe that shit? THAT was their endorsement of him.

The Dallas Morning News was even worse: they endorsed him in 2004, too, but only after listing everything he did wrong for four years, then giving no other reason to endorse him other than "because we do."

Real convincing, huh? I'm not sure either one could really be considered an endorsement. They were hands-down the weirdest ones I've ever seen. It was like they didn't really want to, but didn't have the balls to admit it.

They're admitting stuff now. :eyes:

[DemoTex]

6. As a former Texan (obviously!), that is music to my ears!

Wacko, Texas is probably still in the Bu$h column. Armadillo, too.


DemoTex doing a Texas BBQ in the NC mountains!

[Bouncy Ball]

7. Rock on, DemoTex.

That looks great, btw.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Looks really nice Mac. Great photo. Thanks for sharing n/t

[Blackthorn]

13. Because Bush is ending his use by date...

All the media had to do was help him get "re-elected" in 2004. They don't need to protect him anymore. They helped him get his war started and got him back in office. Mission Accomplished.

[DemoTex]

15. Modeling the DU fashion line ..

Eh, Don? Got you one yet?

Mac

[NNN0LHI]

17. Not yet but I am going to get one

I like it.

Don

[Vogon_Glory]

14. Buckaroo Will Always have Rubbock

Buckaroo Bush no doubt will always have the admiration and devotion of the op-ed pages of the Lubbock Avalanche--Journal.

[DemoTex]

16. I can't wait until their small, cold hearts are broken by his perfidy.

His approval rating will hit the lowest ever charted. Mark my word.

[Bouncy Ball]

19. I felt that a few years ago.

That, God forbid, if he got two terms, we'd see him hit the lowest approval rating of any president since they started doing such polls.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. Heh, I don't doubt that.

I can't vouch for cities like that, I don't check their op-ed pages.

[Vogon_Glory]

23. I've Read The Lubbock Rag

I'll admit to reading the Lubbock rag. I find greater Lubbock to be inevitable if I'm driving to Northern New Mexico or Colorado, so I pull off for the night. I chose to read the Avalanche--Journal instead of McPaper and got an eyeful.

Curiosity generates the clutter.

[jazzjunkysue]

21. And the bush bumper stickers are gone, too. Few God bless the USA

support our troops magnets, too.

[Bouncy Ball]

22. I've noticed that, as well.

Even my kid noticed that, asked me the other day where they went. Hell, it's hard to find those magnet ribbon thingies anymore. Guess they went out of style. Rolling eyes.