Let's Not Buy Into The "Bush Bashing" Catch Phrase

[ruggerson]

It's Republican language. Not ours. They use it to psychologically subtly and not so subtly demean anyone who says or writes anything critical of Shrub. The mainstream media, lemmings that they are, have adopted the phrase and use it indiscriminately, much to the Republican's delight.

We should not use it. Ever. And whenever anyone else uses it, we should criticize it as wholly inaccurate. It's healthy and good in a democracy to criticize a leader, especially one as poor as this one.

Let's demonize the phrase "Bush Bashing." It's not bashing to tell the truth.

[Cary]

1. Excellent point, ruggerson.

Thanks.

[Pam-Moby]

2. I agree

How can one call it bashing when one is telling the truth about the demon.

[metisnation]

3. Rovian again

repeat until accepted as truth. The words I choose are Respect, unity, loyalty and Peace to all people no matter their color of their skin, SES, gender, and those they love.

[Dr Fate]

4. DEMS should go on TV and call it "truth telling"

And then follow it with "And Republicans HATE it when we tell the truth about them- because their whole agenda is based on lies." Then list actual lies told by Bush, complete with dates & sources.

NAHHHHHH, That kind of blunt truth telling would be too honest, agressive and it would "confuse swing voters." I guess I'm just "too radical."

[ruggerson]

5. Not radical at all

The time has long since come to hit back. Hard. Our side needs to be on the airwaves criticizing this president, night and day, relentlessly.

[sendero]

7. This relates....

... to another current thread about blaming the media.

If prominent Dems actually said these things, they would get airtime. This is what the tv news media LOVES because Americans want 24-hour entertainment, not boring ideological discourse.

Reps say outrageous things all the time, and they get press. Many times they are outright lies or at best total distortions, but nobody calls them on it. That would cost money, and the news media is a profit center, not interested in spending needless dollars.

Everybody needs to get on board with the real problem, and stop luxuriating in the bogus notion that the media is totally controled by "corporatists". The main "corporatist" controlling the news is the folks responsible for bringing in a dollar, just like every other business in the country and the world.

[mattclearing]

6. I agree. It is an attempt to equate criticizing Bush's policies with the

man himself. While many of us have a problem with one or both, attempting to paint us all as hating the man makes us all look bad, and does nothing for the valid criticisms we make.

Of course, the media is of the opinion that they do a perfectly good job of criticizing the man's policies without us. :evilgrin:

[Brundle_Fly]

8. Bush Facts

[merbex]

9. I make it a priority to tell the truth about B* every day

THEY CAN"T HANDLE THE TRUTH

[DemoTex]

10. Drudge is already calling Christine Todd Whitman a Bu$h-basher.

And she is a Republican! Her new book has their knickers in a twist. Bwaa haaa haaa!

[Raster]

13. drudge would sell his mother's ass on the street if he thought he

could benefit. Look up "capo" in the dictionary. The capo reference I am referring to is jews who collaborated with the nazis during WWII and helped send their fellow jews to the ovens. Look up capo, you will see drudge's picture.

[zulchzulu]

11. Call anti-Election fraud Repugs "democracy haters"

As for someone saying I'm a Bush basher, who gives a rat's patootie.

[Raster]

12. labels like "bush* hater" and "bush* bashing" are blatant attempts

to minimize any honest discussion about bush*, his policies, his lies, his administration's unprecedented incompetence and achingly obvious cronyism.

There is one way for the "bush lovers" to nip all of this "bush* hatred" right in the bud: let's get it all out in the open. If there is a specific charge against bush*, let's examine and decide. I do hate to bring up Clinton in this discussion, however, this was the most investigated United States President in history and when the dust settled, the most shockingly partisan witch hunt in American history proved there was not one shred of evidence that supported any of the virulently anti-Clinton stories and propaganda his enemies, both in and out of Congress, were spreading about him and his family.

Here's a challenge. Let's submit bush* to just one tenth of the investigative machinery and resources. I guarantee, long before we will have reached $80 million and NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT, there will be multiple chargeable offenses. I'd be willing to bet that if the truth were told, there are quite a few members of the bush* inner circle that belong in prison stripes.