Laura Bush blames the media's Iraq coverage for her husband's low poll ratings (AMERICAblog)

[kpete]

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Laura Bush blames the media's Iraq coverage for her husband's low poll ratings
by Joe in DC - 12/14/2006 10:49:00 AM


When O'Donnell asked Laura about the latest NBC/WSJ poll that showed only 2 in 10 Americans approve of Bush's handling of Iraq (it's actually 19%), Laura blamed the bad media coverage.

Her quote (no transcript on line yet just the video http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8004316/) was:

"I understand why those polls are like that because of the coverage we see every single day on Iraq and it is not encouraging coverage for sure."

.......................

Here's an idea, Laura. You and the girls head over to Iraq for a couple weeks to show us all the good things that are happening over there. Blaming the media is so 2005. Your husband is losing this war and the American people know it. He's brought about the deaths of thousands, Laura.
Deal with it.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/12/laura-bush-blames-medias-iraq-coverage.html

[Jacobin]

1. I'd like to offer the woman some cheese with that very fine whine

Sorry, Laura. The facts have a liberal bias.

[npincus]

2. and Chris Hitchens said women weren't funny?

[lancdem]

3. That's the typical right-wing fall-back position

and we'll be hearing more of it.

[blm]

8. Notice they haven't had to use it for 6years?

.

[Ishoutandscream2]

11. Yep, it's the librul media's fault (the Republican mantra)

I mean, reporting all those deaths and everything.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Man, They Hate The Truth, Don't They?

Apparently, death and destruction that are actually occurring are not news.

One more note: An AP report from sometime in November made a big deal over the fact that a new school had been opened. The important element was that this was the ONLY new school opened since the invasion. While we regularly hear about schools being opened in Iraq, the rest of those were just new buildings because the old buildings were destroyed in the bombing. So, in all this time we have opened ONE NEW SCHOOL! One school in a country of 35 million in 4 years. And that's supposed to be front page news?
The Professor

[n2doc]

4. Sounds like it's time for Laura to go on a "meet and greet" tour of Iraq

hitting all of the "hot spots"- Baghdad, Falluja, etc., etc. You go, girl!

[havocmom]

5. Yeah, if they had just kept hiding the truth, his #s would be fine

:eyes:

Guess Pickles doesn't know about the Internets and Tubes.

[madokie]

18. oh she knows about tubes its them internets thingys that stump her

:rofl:

[Marr]

6. Well, she's right.

The only reason people don't like her husband is because of that silly "reality" thing, which they heard about in the newspapers.

The people who live in Bush Fantasy Land just couldn't be more supportive.

[blm]

7. blm blames media for protecting Laura's husband from 1999-2006.

Gee, it only took a category 5 hurricane to start showing the emperor AND his mediawhores were nekkid as jaybirds - no clothes, no credibility.

[nam78_two]

23. !

:thumbsup:

[IWantAChange]

9. Most Bush supporters choose to live in that alternate universe

that denies reality.

[AndyA]

10. Laura Bush, you are a stupid woman. A total idiot. The proof is the fact

that first of all you married the blithering idiot that you married. And you've stuck with him all these years. Through the drug abuse, alcoholism, the womanizing, the raunchy deals that devastated others, the lies, everything. You stood next to him and by doing so you supported his decisions and actions. STUPID.

Now, you are blaming the media for covering the war in Iraq. Forget the fact that for the last six years the media has largely given your husband every break possible, including reporting facts incorrectly, spreading propaganda, and ignoring things that could be embarrassing to his administration. YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

And if anyone was still in doubt about your intelligence, one only has to recall that the war in Iraq was OPTIONAL. It was not a mandatory war. We were not attacked by Iraq. Saddam was not a threat to us. He had no WMDs. He did not have Iraqi citizens fly planes into our buildings. And your husband and his cronies lied to America to make this war happen.

You, Laura Bush, have obviously taken the same stance that your husband has taken: that Bushes don't make mistakes, and if they do they don't own up to them, accept responsibility for them, nor do they admit to their mistake. They ignore it, pass the buck, or deny the facts.

You, Laura Bush are a STUPID, UGLY WOMAN. You have a monster for a husband, two trashy, trampy, no-talent daughters, you are a murderer, and are part of one of the most evil families to ever walk the face of Earth.

You should be very proud of yourself. :eyes:

[bullimiami]

12. when she should be thanking them for all of the lies and distortions they

have allowed in propping her evil stupid husband up.

[xultar]

13. Yeah. The dead people had nothing to do with it.

[otohara]

14. Ya Think Pickles?

your stupid lame husband unleashed the gates of hell in the Middle East -

[tabasco]

15. She has a point.

If we didn't know about Iraq, we wouldn't have to worry about it so much.

More excellent analysis from the brilliant First Lady Bush! Of course, there are millions of Americans who really believe it is a liberal media so that's who Laura is talking to. They can only appeal to the zombies at this point.

Maybe our media should be more like the one they had in Germany that told of the great victories on the Eastern Front.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. If the Iranians can deny the Holocaust ...

Maybe GWB can deny that there is or ever was a war in Iraq. Everything we have seen is a product of left-wing liberal media. Pax Republicana.

That'll fly, won't it?

[blueblitzkrieg]

16. the REALITY is not encouraging

ya dingbat

[madrchsod]

19. cue tammy wynette.....

"Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times
And he'll have good times
Doing things that you don't understand...............
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man"

[verse18]

20. Hey boys and girls, it's time for another round of the "Blame Game."

I blame your husband for Iraq, Pickles. I can play the blame game, too.

[Virginia Dare]

21. Actually Mrs. Chimp...

if the media was doing their job and accurately reporting on what your husband is really up to, his approval ratings would be down in the single digits.

[malaise]

22. She's on MSNBC right now

spewing her garbage.

[sarge43]

24. Yo Frump, if things are so peachy keen in Eye rack, why not

send your two pampered princesses over there. Little Bar could work an ER, Not Bar, an elementary school in Sadr City. Think of the glowing report they could send back.

[spanone]

25. She lives in the same 'dumb bubble' her delusional mate lives in.

Blaming the media.....geez that's really original Pickles.

[Roland99]

26. Perhaps because your Frat-Boy husband is a war-mongering CRIMINAL!!

Fuck off, Pickles.

[Junkdrawer]

27. Imagine if the media talked about 650,000 Iraqi dead...

http://www.juancole.com/2006/12/kucinich-paul-congressional-hearing-on.html

[Vinca]

28. Didn't the Iraq Study Group just report the bad stuff was under reported?

Sit tight, Pickles, it can get a whole lot worse.