Bush's father complains of news media "hostility"

[demnan]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2007-01-26T223441Z_01_N26396581_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-FATHER.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Waaaahhh Poppy just waaaaaahhhhh!

[rsmith6621]

1. Did.....

Big George forget they supported him when there was a REPUKE majority in WDC????


How soon some forget....

[Postman]

2. Fuck You. How's that for animosity you fucking fascist?

n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Such a pity . . .

Won't somebody please, please, please think of the children? :eyes:

Seriously, if Bumblefuck W. Bush can't stand up to the media, he should crawl back to Kennebunkport.

[frogcycle]

4. somehow i just can't seem to find

a sympathetic cell in my entire body

[tanyev]

5. It's one thing to have a cooperative, professional relationship---

it's quite another when the Fox News rhetoric goes beyond stenography and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting manipulaton and propagandizing.

[salin]

6. always been thin-skinned, back when he was pres

An ongoing theme in the TV show Murphy Brown was about her being banned from the WH press corps because she had 'insulted' the pres. There were stories about reading the media and taking note of any not glowing coverage and then "punishing" the guilty reporters by freezing them out (sound familiar?) - one story I read during the 2000 election had jr (back in 1990) playing the role of media monitor for Poppy.

[EST]

7. It is no surprise that the elder * is delusional, after all ,

he is a republican.

[The Count]

8. What? Poppy whining again? See how this makes me feel:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

9. Thousands dead and mutilated due to your spoiled brat's war,

and your only concern is "personal animosity" of the media?

Here is my advice: Next time you sit down to breakfast in one of your posh digs, when the maid brings in the morning paper tucked into the silver tea set, just skip the front page and go directly to the financial section. Don't worry your beautiful mind about anything except what will increase your personal wealth. "Bar" figured that out decades ago. Why are you so slow to catch up? Cat got your conscience?

[Arkansas Granny]

10. So, Daddy Bush talks back to his TV. I've been screaming at

mine for years due to the media complicity in aiding his son to perpetrate crimes against humanity.

Cry me a river!

[bluerum]

11. Hostility? Try living in Baghdad for a year you elitist POS. Criticism is

something the "working class" deals with on a daily basis in working lives. In Baghdad it is a bit worse when someone disagrees with your religious or political flavor.

Oh, and the Baghdad situation is directly related to you and your dimwitted progeny. Go work in, live in, and clean up the shit you created instead of letting others die as you let it continue.

[LeftishBrit]

12. He's the Decider, the most powerful single person in the world..

and he still runs to daddy for protection whenever anyone criticizes him.

Isn't it a bit embarrassing?

[Hubert Flottz]

13. He ain't seen nothing yet!

Sow the wind reap the whirlwind GawdPoppy!

[Algorem]

14. old pillheads say the darndest things.

[LibDemAlways]

15. Chimp Sr. has lost his mind. What animosity?

For six years we've been subjected to a corporate media that has had its lips firmly affixed to the BFEE's ass. We've watched a parade of whores tossing softballs in the direction of Pres. Dumbass. We've witnessed the likes of Tweety on the day the moron staged his photo op on the carrier off San Diego practically going orgasmic over the idiot's codpiece. We've been forcefed the fiction that this "President" is determined, tough, and yet the kind of folksy guy one would enjoy having a beer with.

I repeat. What animosity?

The only tv commentator with a finely honed bullshit meter and the guts to verbalize his disdain for the worst "president" in US history is Olbermann - and that is a recent, though thoroughly welcome, phenom. All the rest will continue to make excuses for and cover up the misdeeds and outright criminal behavior of this cabal.

Chimp sr. needs to take a deep breath and reflect that he is one lucky SOB that the press hasn't been doing its job. If it had, he'd be held in much less regard by the general public - and dimson would have had his sorry ass impeached and removed years ago.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. It hurt my feelins when nobody recommended my thread too but I

did't cry like a wimpy baby about it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x54453

[Supersedeas]

17. did he cite one example--or is it patented Dr. Condi style vagary