USNews: White House blames media for low Bush approval

[sabra]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_080314.htm


Media Blamed For Low Bush Approval

The US News Political Bulletin has learned White House officials have a new theory about why President Bush's job approval ratings are so low -- the media keep harping on it so much that it's become a self-fulfilling analysis. "It's a drumbeat in the media," a senior Bush adviser tells the Bulletin. "It's a constant narrative that he suffers from low job approval. It should not be in the second paragraph of every story. The media should report what he's doing." White House officials are pointing to new survey research by GOP pollster Ed Goeas of the Tarrance Group to make their point that many of Bush's policies are very popular. Among the findings: While 62 per cent of likely voters disapprove of Bush's job performance, 73 per cent support his policy of going "on the offense against terrorists;" 65 per cent agree that he has "kept Americans safe from terrorist attacks:" and 64 per cent approve of his economic stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year.

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

1. "Slick Eddie Gonads," is what Goeas is calling in the public opinion, biz. nt

[Birthmark]

2. I love the era of personal responsibility, don't you?

Hey, MonkeyPres. Your approval ratings are low because you happen to suck at your job. And it's suckage of record proportions.

Mystery solved.

[LakeSamish706]

3. I swear those morons in the WH live in a bubble.... Geez n/t

[maseman]

4. Man there are some stand-up comics in the WH

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Freaking lib-rul media. Smirk." - Commander AWOL Bush

http://www.aintitcool.com/images/aicncomics/Shoot+the+Messenger.GIF

[durablend]

8. Don't laugh it off so quick

The talking point is out so expect hate radio to harp on it.

[SpiralHawk]

14. "You can bet your bippy I know that. Smirk" - Commander AWOL

[Demeter]

6. And In Spite of Spreading All the Bush Lies Like Manure on the Cornfields

and concealing or squashing any inadvertant truth that happens to leak out,

and refusing to report important news in any American media, so that we have to go overseas to find out what's going on!

How dare the press attack Bush's reputation and popularity so!

[notadmblnd]

7. They're right. That should not be in the second paragraph of every story.

What should be in the second paragraph of every story is that; he is a stupid, evil, fucking moron. Who has for his entire wasted existence, turned everything he's ever touched into a steaming worthless pile of shit. It should also be stated that sane open minded people have been shouting this from the rooftops for years and that the sheeple have finally woken up and realized it.

[Nitrogenica]

9. What a victim poor * is!

[islandmkl]

10. 98.3% agree with Bush that dogshit stinks when you step in it....

the other 1.7% are in powerful posts within the Administration, many of whom hide the dogshit from W...

[AndyA]

11. No, George, you suffer from low approval only due to your own actions.

You are a:

LIAR
HYPOCRITE
BIGOT
MURDERER

You are bankrupting our country.

You are spying on us.

You have outed an undercover CIA agent for political reasons.

You are the head of the most corrupt administration in American history.

You spend billions each month overseas, yet allow American citizens to die because they can't afford to see a doctor, or buy prescription medicine.

You are an arrogant, selfish, little man.

You have been the worst President in American history.

THAT is why you have low approval, but in keeping with your history, you will blame everything bad on someone else, in this case the media, which has done more to protect you than they should have. If they'd told 100% of the truth about your actions and dirty deeds as President, there would have been rioting in the streets by now, and our rubber spined Congress would have impeached your sorry lying ass.

You are a traitor to America. A disgrace. An embarrassment of epic proportions. You have harmed America more than the terrorists ever could.

[ProfessorGAC]

Gee, Failed Policies Couldn't Have Anything To Do With It

Could they? This is preposterous.
The Professor

[krispos42]

12. The same media...

...that enabled him? That worked with him hand in glove from his election campaign to now? Most notably Faux News?


Right.....


Corect me if I'm wrong, but didn't they relentlessly harp on how HIGH is approval rating was after 9/11?

If it is a self-fullfilling prophecy, why did his rating drop below 80%?

[Johonny]

13. Just imagine how low it be

If the media did a good job covering Bush.

[bdamomma]

15. exactly, but they never stop blaming someone else.

[fascisthunter]

16. Gee... America's Rejection of GOP Fascism Had Nothing to do with it

keep living in denial and we will have a revolution.

[Stuart G]

17. link to who is to blame...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3007964

[tanyev]

18. Isn't the bad economy the media's fault, too?

And here I thought they were wasting all their time covering troubled starlets. That must just be a cover for all the nefarious plans they are carrying out behind the scenes.

[Supersedeas]

19. instead of looking at him and his policies, if we ask diff questions--we get diff answers

[Marr]

20. Of course-- even our corporate media occasionally reports facts.

And facts always make Junior look bad.

[maseman]

21. Yup it is the Lib-rul media

Fox News is real Librul. Coulter, Hannity, O'Really(?), etc.

CNN? Wolf Blitzkrieg? Glenn Beck? Very Lib-brul.

MSNBC? Now there's Lib-Brul for you. Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, Tweety, etc.

Ahh...I know it must be talk radio's Lib-Brul influence...Rush, Hannity, Savage (Weiner), Laura Ingraham, Beck, etc.

The media LOVES and STROKES Shrub all the time. Maybe a few real news organizations have actually come out and done some reporting GAWD forbid.

[annabanana]

22. So did Nixon. . . . . n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. And I resent Our White House (yes, we own it kids) being used to dish out propaganda day in and day

out!