Bush's father complains of news media "hostility"

[Poiuyt]

President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so unrelenting he sometimes talked back to his television set.

"It's one thing to have an adversarial ... relationship -- hard-hitting journalism -- it's another when the journalists' rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity," former President
George Bush said.

The elder Bush, the 41st U.S. president, had a relatively collegial relationship with the press but things turned sour during his losing 1992 re-election campaign. He got so fed up with media coverage that supporters at the time circulated hats with the slogan "Annoy the Media -- Re-Elect Bush."

"I won't get too personal here -- but this antipathy got worse after the 43rd president took office," the former president said. He was speaking at a reception for a journalism scholarship awarded in honor of the late Hugh Sidey, White House correspondent for Time magazine.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070126/us_nm/bush_father_dc

"...but this antipathy got worse after the 43rd president took office," Gee, I wonder why that happened? Could it be that the 43rd president is the worst president in US history? And I seem to recall the press being pretty complacent for the first 5 years that he was in office.

[bluedog]

1. truth hurts ..hes your spawn.....n/t

[MidwestTransplant]

2. How about that 43 lied incessantly and got them to believe him.

Now they are pissed for looking like fools.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Right on cue: It's Poppy to the rescue!

Too bad dimson has destroyed an entire country and is gutting our nation's Treasury with SENSELESS WARS. :(

[Rosemary2205]

4. GHWB has been bitching about this for years.

The press generally sucks GW's toes. I hate to see the embolism daddy would have if Jr. got what he REALLY deserved from the media.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. Still clearing the way for your little boy?

I'd think a 58 year old man, with a Masters Degree and in the office of the President of the United States wouldn't need his daddy to fight his battles for him.............. :shrug: Just sayin'

[MuseRider]

9. Wimp and whimpier?

Kiss my ass GHWB. Your son is lucky they have been kind to him, otherwise he would be in the Hague.

[bdamomma]

55. If he was interviewed by the British Press he would be sputtering and

stammering looking for answers. The British Press shows no mercy, our press is just too soft.

[malaise]

6. Fugg him

3000 plus dead US military, 20,000 plus injured for life, 600,000 plus Iraqis dead and he's complaining about bad media for his war criminal son.
Oh tell Poppy his son is a dumb, arrogant, son of a murdering clusterfucking criminal.

Fuck all the Bushes.

Add. Sp.

[sutz12]

7. Yup, that damn Lib'rul media's at it agin....

they jus' hate us. :sarcasm:

[acmavm]

8. Pssst Poopy. Nobody cares.

[cynatnite]

10. I wonder how he feels about the public's animosity n/t

[StClone]

50. On target

See post #40 also.

The Public is now on to this Elitist punk/loser/idiot. His old man coming to his defense when all along George W was given free reign in the media AND the Government. W destroyed all.

[Diane R]

11. Amazing. This family knows no limit to their sense of personal pain.

[Unperson]

40. Privileged elitist fucks!

How dare the people demand the truth from it's politicians.

[Imagevision]

12. George H.W. Bush once voted against civil rights... I didn't know that!

[LibDemAlways]

13. What the hell is he talking about?

The corporate whores have bent over backwards to provide nothing but favorable coverage of the BFEE. The only commentator who has been overtly critical of the chimp is Olbermann. The rest of them are a bunch of ass-kissing sycophants. Chimp Sr. has lost his mind.

[ms liberty]

14. Notice he doesn't mention the hostility toward the 42nd president...

Gee - I guess Clinton got treated like gold by the press?

He's got almost as little credibility as his dysfunctional son.

[sakabatou]

15. Aww...

Papa * ith tho tho thadthat hith wittle thon ith an athhole.

[Imagevision]

16. How sad when your dad has to come out and rescue your 60 year old ass...

Bush, at times gives expressions like he's going on 15-16 sometimes, the putz has no understanding of the slaughter he's causing and these United States simply is in a trance as * keeps reminding us that he makes the decisions!!!

[Poiuyt]

71. I think that Jr keeps making bad decisions just to show that he's not

listening to Poppy's advice. That's why he's escalating the war in Iraq. Jr. doesn't want the humiliation of being told what to do by his father's friends (e.g. Jim Baker).

[bobbolink]

17. DAmn that Librul media! Somebody otta do something!

:sarcasm:

Too bad they can't stand to look in the mirror....:mad:

[Hubert Flottz]

28. The democrats will pass some new laws about making the news

fair again like it was before Reagan/Bush deregulation George, so just hang in there. We're gonna fix it!

Edit...Maybe the idiot son will not VETO the new fairness laws congress is getting ready to pass.

[buff2]

18. Oh,Khrist..........Sounds like Babs needs to change his diaper again

I am so sick of that whiny crying little wimp.

[lpbk2713]

Are these comments by 41 available on video?

And did he actually say that with a straight face?

The list could go on and on about why no one in their right mind would have anything but disdain (at the very least) for that asshole kid of his.

[poiuytsister]

19. This is the first time I've heard him defend that little jerk

in a long time. It sort of seemed like he was adopting Clinton, they hang out more together. The 2 Georges don't even get together on the holidays. So Poppy, great job raising the kid.

"Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way..."

[applegrove]

20. I'd love to see what channel he is watching. Cause I've not seen animosity...and I'd like to!

[WinkyDink]

51. The same phantom channel that they see Iraqi scenes of carnage on.

[applegrove]

58. That would be it.

[niyad]

21. funny I didn't hear the old man saying anything when the msm was slobbering all over that worthless,

lying, thieving, murderous spawn of his. no "over-the-line" comments then, eh, poppy?
what a bunch of hypocritical, hate-filled monsters in that family.

[butterfly77]

22. He can't understand it because ...

he and Mrs.Quaker oats have let him get away with everything all of these years, and now he can't do anything his money won't buy this asshole respect,the whole world can see what they have tried to hide for years.

[Ford Prefect]

34. Mrs. Quaker Oats?

:rofl:
What an image!
:rofl:

[Hubert Flottz]

23. I've been screaming at my TV for eight years George...

It's about time a Bush saw how the rest of the country lives! He needs to stay tuned to FOX and just MOVE ON! GET OVER IT!

[devilgrrl]

24. Yeah Poppy, your son is a murdering bastard - of course the media isn't going to be congenial

never mind that it took the media 6 years to wake up.

[Imagevision]

25. What's jebbie have to say or hasn't he stopped crying yet because he's out of work...

[Bobbie Jo]

26. Do what Cheney does Poppy.....

Just keep your TV tuned into Faux....problem solved.:eyes:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. WAAAAHHHHHhh!

We're the GWOWNUPS, dammit!

[Horse with no Name]

29. Now he knows how I feel

I yell at the teevee pretty frequently as well.

[Ford Prefect]

30. Is "Boo Hoo" hyphenated?

I'd like to know, so that I get it right when I dash off a note of support to The Wimp and Babs.

[onecent]

31. boo fuckin' hoo, after what they did to Clinton over a blow job? hello.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. You know, he's easily the funniest ex-president I've ever seen. That dry, sardonic, tongue-in-cheek

wit.

Why, I bet he actually said all that with a totally straight face. What a comedian! That's the funniest fucking thing I've EVER heard. I mean, leaving aside the fact that the so-called "adversarial press" allowed Dubya to cast himself as a "moderate" in 2000, blew off (excuse the pun) allegations of drug use and going AWOL... when you consider how they wedged their collective brown noses completely up Junior's totally undeserving bottom for a good, solid four years straight after 9-11... maybe finally letting up a little once New Orleans was underwater.

Shit. Poppy should be doing stand-up.

[donco6]

33. Join the club.

I've been talking back to the TV for 10 fucking years.

[Megahurtz]

64. Lol!

:D

[TheCowsCameHome]

35. Too late for a retroactive vasectomy, eh Poppy?

Now that your spawn has ruined this country.

[Imagevision]

36. I hope 43 lives long enough to see jr. being booted from the White House

[Ford Prefect]

39. I hope you mean "41"

The idea of W-spawn - or any other members of the Bush royal family - getting back into the WH is unthinkable.
All of a sudden, what the Bolsheviks did to the Romanovs is at least understandable if not justified: "The line ends here. Now."

[lligrd]

37. Yeah, Well I Am Upset About Your Son's Hostility Toward

Americans! How the hell did you manage to raise such a selfish, egotistical moron? That is my response to 41.

[Unperson]

38. Fuck Herbert Walker Bush.

I remember his press conferences. He abused the members of the press to the point that they were afraid to ask him questions. he treated the whole notion of a press conference as a nuisance. Like "how dare they question my policies!" He was a smug bully with the press. Fuck you George Herbert Walker Bush!!!

[City Lights]

41. Wah wah wah.

STFU, Poppy. Why didn't you use protection?

[NightOwwl]

42. It's way past time for GHWB to face the fact that his son is a stupendous fuck-up.

Denial, it ain't just a river in Egypt.

[Cha]

43. bush sr has some

god damn fucking nerve..is he senile? Has he no clue how many tv sets have been kicked in because of the tragic vapidity of bushjr?

Like anyone who cares about the USA gives a rat'sass if bushsr. is whining about his fucked up son or not.

If bushsr doesn't like it then he thank those goddamn fascist judges on our so-called supreme(?)court who put monkeyrat in so he could do his evil on the world.

bushsr & babs..what a fucking puking pair that is.

[stevedeshazer]

44. Poppy's a wimp. He got the kid gloves treatment from media in his day, too.

They pumped him up to 90% approval during the Persian Gulf War. It only took him a year to piss it all away and become irrelevant, just like his pouty kids (Jeb, too).

[porphyrian]

45. Waaah, I'm the patriarch of an empire and people won't suck up to me all the time. - n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

46. If you can't stand the heat, you should have never gotten involved

in the corporate take-over of the country.

What a pussy.

[Kurovski]

47. His views are understandable given that George is his son,

but even a father must eventually face the fact when his son is an irredeemably recalcitrant asshole.

But it's totally possible that GHWB is defending that very recalcitrance itself.

[zbdent]

48. I wonder how much Poppy would have cried if Bush43 received the

same "light treatment" from the press that Clinton received, instead of the "harsh spotlight" on his son's miss-steps ...

He'd have had several concurrent hemorrhages ...

[WinkyDink]

49. Both men should grow the hell up. What is it with Poppy and Bar, that they

PUBLICLY treat Dubya like an elementary-school child?

Oh, wait.

[mayflower]

52. Too bad Globalist Scum (n/t)

[Malikshah]

53. World Population complains about Bush Family--

Would that they had been sterile from the get go. Then all we'd have been left with was a poorly developed atomic globule quickly flushed down the sewer of prehistoric filth.

Hey, Georgie. Shame on you. STFU

[bdamomma]

54. they will do anything and everything to cover up for their insane son

how disgusting the Bush Crime Family is a perfect name for all of them.

oh, next will be Momma Bush, the big bear to come to the rescue of her sick sick son. Then Laura, with her plastic fanastic botox smile to give her sad sorry, to get some points of support from the public. This is truly disgusting.

[grasswire]

56. say what?

"....but this antipathy got worse after the 43rd president took office,"

Revisionist hogwash.

What a family of ghouls. Goddam shameless ghouls. I don't think there's an adjective strong enough to describe their evil natures.

[Dastard Stepchild]

57. Now they know how Jennifer Aniston feels.

:P

I'm speaking in jest, of course, but we do have a snarky media that pretty much likes to dish it out to any person that wanders into the limelight. Clinton sat through it...Britney sits through it daily... I'm sure Dubya can take a few on the chin now and then!

[undeterred]

59. The news media has treated his son with kid gloves for most of

the last 6 years. If they are finally starting to tell the truth, that's a good thing.

[0rganism]

60. the pasty rat bastard can cry me a river

Introducing, for your listening pleasure, the "tiniest violin quartet"

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

"sometimes talked back to his television set"? Awwww.... how cute.

[2Design]

61. the press have been like wimps with this horrible pResident n/t

[tavalon]

62. Waah, waah!

Yawn..................

Sorry some of them decided to start doing a half assed job when they realized the emperor didn't really have clothes or teeth.

[EstimatedProphet]

63. Are you fucking kidding me?

Poppy Bush is actually trying to claim that he ran a decent campaign, and was the victim of meanspiritedness?

Hey Poppy, remember all the draft dodger crap? Huh? Do you? Remember how it WASN'T directed at you?

[blm]

65. So Poppy's buddies are buying MORE MEDIA to take care of their FUTURE CRIMES.

They won't have to worry about the next Dem president, either. Her name is Clinton - and Clintons cover up for Bushes really well. So adept at covering up, the public barely notices.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0511-29.htm

[roguevalley]

66. I cannot believe how much I despise this old fossil.

[Erika]

67. He and Babs Bush raised this cretin

Now they can't stand criticism of the idiot? I wish the Bush's would just join their oil buds in the ME and get the hell out of our country.

[fooj]

68. Game over, Poppy.

"Personal animosity" isn't the half of it.

[SoCalDem]

69. Yes, Flyboy, it IS personal.. We LOATHE your incompetent spawn.

[symbolman]

70. I would pay good money to watch

Willie Horton tie Bush Senior to a chair and have his way with Junior..

It would make a great PsychoSexual Racist commercial to get someone into office..

No WAIT, it's been DONE ALREADY, by WHO, one might ask?

Bush SENIOR and his Brain TumorBoy Pal Lee Atwater, who taught Rove every dirty trick he knows. :)

Hey, GHW, Check Bab's Leg, the best part of Junior RAN DOWN IT 61 years ago..

God I hate these goddamn CRIMINALS.

I imagine he talks to his TV a LOT, back when he was 'President', he was given so many drugs, like Halcyon (spelling) that he started seeing Giant Methodist Spiders :)

[butterfly77]

72. Is he calling us the media?