Bill Press' book: "Bush Must Go"

[question everything]

Was interviewed on CNN "inside Politics"


BILL PRESS, AUTHOR, "BUSH MUST GO": Yes, this is not the "Da Vinci Code." You don't have to search for clues, hidden clues (UNINTELLIGIBLE). This is sort of a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that hits you right between the eyes as to why I believe President Bush doesn't deserve a second term.

WOODRUFF: What are the main reasons?

PRESS: There are a lot. The economy, you know, I think he's taken us from A-OK to IOU. The environment, where he's really rolled back the clock on about 30 years of environmental progress. The Patriot Act, which I think undermines our basic civil liberties. Crony capitalism. He's really sold this country out and, I think, federal agencies out to the biggest contributors but the number one reason I believe, Judy, has to be the war in Iraq. We see more and more evidence every day that the reasons he gave us for going to war are not valid. And this president chose to go to war. It was not a war of necessity. It was a war of his choice.

(snip)

WOODRUFF: I read a very -- a small review, and it said, among other things, it said that it didn't assume that Bush officials were concerned about your book, because it said it reaches not only -- it reaches out only to Bush haters, and not to swing voters. If you're trying to persuade people, why not be a little more subtle?

PRESS: Well, first of all, I don't hate George Bush. And I say that on the first page of the book. I love America, which is why I wrote this book because I think his policies have been so dangerous to America. But, Judy, I was not really reaching out to the swing voters. I really wanted to give the committed activists, Democrats an agenda, a Bible for 2004, to put in one place, sort of like a compendium or a handbook they could carry around, the ten most important reasons, so that they know when they're talking to people, why this man has been so dangerous for this country and why it's so important to get rid of him. I welcome swing voters but it's really aimed at the choir.

(snip)

PRESS: Well, I have talked to -- particularly I've done a lot of conservative talk radio, and some of the more conservative television shows and what I find particularly are the Republican talking points. And let's take Iraq, for example, and let's take weapons of mass destruction. I can't tell you how many times have been repeated to me the quotes by Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright and Al Gore, and others, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. And so they say, see? You can't blame George Bush. To which I point out, yes, they thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction but they did not take this country to war based on that information. And what they did was passed a policy that said regime change in Iraq, in other words, fund the opposition inside of Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, which I think was the right policy.


http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/29/ip.00.html

[LibertyorDeath]

1. Thanks for this

Oh how I loath Woodruff

Press speaks my language

"PRESS: There are a lot. The economy, you know, I think he's taken us from A-OK to IOU. The environment, where he's really rolled back the clock on about 30 years of environmental progress. The Patriot Act, which I think undermines our basic civil liberties. Crony capitalism. He's really sold this country out and, I think, federal agencies out to the biggest contributors but the number one reason I believe, Judy, has to be the war in Iraq. We see more and more evidence every day that the reasons he gave us for going to war are not valid. And this president chose to go to war. It was not a war of necessity. It was a war of his choice."

Excellent

I stopped watching CNN about 4 months ago it's just another media arm for the White House IMO

Love your user name... question everything

[question everything]

3. I watch CNN because I still get a comprehensive cover

of what's happening and I do like Judy Woodruff - after all, she is not supposed to sway over her subjects a-la Katie Couric but to challenge them, almost prepare them for questioning by, say, Katie Couric. And Corssfire, while more entertaining still gives us a glimpse of what RW think. I will not watch Fox so-called News for this. I have a sensitive stomach.

Certainly Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs have credible programs.

Thanks for your comment. I think that this is true for all liberals: not to accept what is around us but to always look outside the box and to question everything.

This is why true journalists are liberal, should be liberal, when they do not just transmit the "official report" - be it by a government, a corporation, or uncle Charlie.

[Justice]

2. Notice Judy's Spin

If you don't support Bush, you are a "Bush hater"

We have to start saying, no I am a Kerry supporter - I support John Kerry. I made a choice and my choice is John Kerry. Here is why -

My describing us as Bush haters, it makes us just look negative.

[Richardo]

4. That's a good reply, as was Press' "No, I love America."

Judy's spinning like a jet turbine.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

5. CNN is FAUX-LITE!