Beat The Press
White House Correspondent Mark Knoller reports that President Bush -- the first one -- had some harsh words for the press today.
It’s former President George Bush as press critic.
At a White House ceremony today, the 41st President let loose a formidable tirade about how some in the press – in his view - do their jobs.
The rant came at an event honoring a new scholarship named for the late Time Magazine reporter Hugh Sidey, whom Mr. Bush genuinely liked and admired.
He said its one thing for reporters to take an adversarial approach toward the people they cover.
“It’s another when the journalists’ rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity,” said Mr. Bush the elder.
Ouch!
But his blistering indictment was not over.
He said the antipathy of some in the press “got worse” after his son became President.
It got so bad, he said, “I found myself doing what I never should have done: I talk back to the television set. And I said things that my mother wouldn’t necessarily approve of.”
The former President said wife Barbara, the former first lady, didn’t want to hear what was being said about their son on TV and made her husband wear headphones when he would watch.
“I’m sitting there like a guy from outer spece with these things on,” said Mr. Bush of the headphones. “I can hear every word...but she doesn’t have to hear one single word of the broadcast.”
“I could listen and even talk back to the set, while she’d go about much more tranquil pursuits,” he reported.
He made it sound as though his anger at some of the reporting he read and heard rose to the level of obsession.
“I started a new organization once, called Press Bashers Anonymous,” Mr. Bush admitted.
He said he tried to restrain his rage at the press, but it didn’t last.
“And then along came the South Carolina primary or something like that – and the hell with it – I got out of the organization and it folded.”
The 41st President told the first recipient of the Hugh Sidey Scholarship to follow the lead of the reporter for which it was named.
“Study hard. Call ‘em like you see ‘em. Write courageously,” Mr. Bush advised.
He said “heaven knows the world of journalism needs a few more Hugh Sideys.”
(AP)
At a White House ceremony today, the 41st President let loose a formidable tirade about how some in the press – in his view - do their jobs.
The rant came at an event honoring a new scholarship named for the late Time Magazine reporter Hugh Sidey, whom Mr. Bush genuinely liked and admired.
He said its one thing for reporters to take an adversarial approach toward the people they cover.
“It’s another when the journalists’ rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity,” said Mr. Bush the elder.
Ouch!
But his blistering indictment was not over.
He said the antipathy of some in the press “got worse” after his son became President.
It got so bad, he said, “I found myself doing what I never should have done: I talk back to the television set. And I said things that my mother wouldn’t necessarily approve of.”
The former President said wife Barbara, the former first lady, didn’t want to hear what was being said about their son on TV and made her husband wear headphones when he would watch.
“I’m sitting there like a guy from outer spece with these things on,” said Mr. Bush of the headphones. “I can hear every word...but she doesn’t have to hear one single word of the broadcast.”
“I could listen and even talk back to the set, while she’d go about much more tranquil pursuits,” he reported.
He made it sound as though his anger at some of the reporting he read and heard rose to the level of obsession.
“I started a new organization once, called Press Bashers Anonymous,” Mr. Bush admitted.
He said he tried to restrain his rage at the press, but it didn’t last.
“And then along came the South Carolina primary or something like that – and the hell with it – I got out of the organization and it folded.”
The 41st President told the first recipient of the Hugh Sidey Scholarship to follow the lead of the reporter for which it was named.
“Study hard. Call ‘em like you see ‘em. Write courageously,” Mr. Bush advised.
He said “heaven knows the world of journalism needs a few more Hugh Sideys.”
You only have to look as far as the daily White House briefings to know that he is 100% correct in his assessment.
Unfortunately when the child foolishly embarked on a fools errand in Iraq, disregarded the advice of our allies and many of his Generals, then stubbornly dismissed the advice of his father's advisers, well my sympathy is with the brave troops in harms way, and their families making the difficult sacrifice, not with the arrogant son.
Perhaps next time the former President seethes in front of his television, he might reflect on his failure to instill in his son the intellectual motivation to understand other cultures, and the trait of humility that enables admitting a mistake.
We do reap what we sow.
Don't get me wrong , I think his heart was in the right place...
but this may be one of the reason
WE HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS
WITH THE PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON DC..
When asked about the WAR protester in Washington DC
Jim Webb, D-Va said on Face the Nation
'' I have a strong belief that in this country,
one of our greatest strengths
is that we have the right to stand in front of the people in power
and state our views...''
PEOPLE IN POWER???
Jim Webb, D-Va , FYI (For Your Information)
WE THE PEOPLE , are the PEOPLE IN POWER
WE THE PEOPLE , are in CONTROL
All of the BUREAUCRATS and POLITICIANS
in Washington DC are there to REPRESENT US (The PEOPLE)
The people in Washington DC are called '' REPRESENTATIVES ''
not the people in power....
in the
NORTH AMERICAN UNION
TOLL ROAD CORRIDORS
in order to COVER UP opposition
to the TOLL ROAD being OWNED by FOREIGNERS
in order to COVER UP that some of these roads
had been paid for by the PUBLIC ALREADY
and are being GIVEN to these FOREIGNERS
in order to COVER UP politicians
who HAVE SOLD OUT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
Big Business Buys Silence of Toll Road Critical Newspapers
Foreign corporation in desperate lunge to quell massive popular dissent against Trans Texas Corridor & North American Union
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/toll_road_business_buys_silence_of_critical_newspapers.htm