January 27, 2007
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The Media
President Bush’s father has complained that the media has been harsh with the treatment of his son.
His father believes the media has “personal animosity” toward his son. He even claims he has been talking back to the TV when his son gets bad press. Here is the link: Link
Do you think the press is easy or hard on President Bush?
Comments (138)
Hard, but they are on everyone
Actions have consequences.
Hard.
hard
The press are frequently hard on presidents.
Look at Gerald Ford. He was arguably one of the most athletic and physically coordinated president we’ve ever had. He played college football and damn well, too. Unfortunately, he tripped twice and was lampooned as a klutz. Chevy Chase made a fortune on Saturday Night Live making a man of balance and skill look like an inebriated chimp with an inner-ear infection.
Life just isn’t fair for presidents.
Hard.
Hard.
Not that he’s a good president, though.
i’m sick of all the griping. let the man do his job till his term is over, and then elect someone else to pick on. there will never be a time when everyone is happy—NEVER.
The media hates President Bush.
medium hard………hardhard
yeah sometimes i think they over do it.
they have been hard on him. but i don’t think they’re wrong in being hard on him. he’s arrogant and lazy.
cheers,
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I think he deserves a lot more than snide remarks about his intelligence.
He deserves outright anger for his actions; if the media are the spokespersons for the people, they are not doing a bang-up-enough job.
Hard, but they are notoriously hard on presidents (or any head of state) when there is a war going on…back in WWII they were even unkind to Churchill.
hard…
hard!
Not nearly hard enough. No offense intended, but this presidency has been a disaster in so many ways. Global warming. Katrina. Iraq. Eavesdropping. National debt. Attorney generals Ashcroft and Gonzales. Disgraceful Supreme Court nominees. I don’t know how Alito will turn out, but I’m worried. Harriet Miers makes him look good, I’ll admit, but how could a hack like Miers even be nominated in the first place? At least she withdrew. Thank God for small favors.
They are too hard on him… When the Towers fell, and he said we were going to go over and kick Osama’s butt, everyone was happy with him…. It wasnt an easy problem to fix, and its taking longer than we wanted or expected… So now people are mad(?)
I think they’re easy on him…
There are so many issues that aren’t being addressed.
And the media is always going to be on the president’s back!
Though his father seems to care alot for his son, which is awesome :]
I don’t think they are kind. I also do not think they are unjustified.
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i think it is both, depending on the issue being discussed.
Not nearly hard enough. No offense intended, but this presidency has been a disaster in so many ways. Global warming. Katrina. Iraq. Eavesdropping. National debt. Attorney generals Ashcroft and Gonzales. Disgraceful Supreme Court nominees. I don’t know how Alito will turn out, but I’m worried. Harriet Miers makes him look good, I’ll admit, but how could a hack like Miers even be nominated in the first place? At least she withdrew. Thank God for small favors.
Posted 1/27/2007 8:51 AM by twoberry
I’m wondering, how does the president affect Global warming at all? People have been talking about global warming since the early 1990′s. Geroge W. wasn’t in power then last time I checked. Alos, how on earth do you blame a hurricane on the presdent? I’m no expert but i don’t know of anyone who controls the weather.
One last point. Iraq, you mentioned Iraq. would you have rather left Sadam in power and watch as thousands of inocent people suffer under a trible dictator. I don’t care what you libral friends tell you, but we didn’t go in there for oil, If we had gas pricess would be lower then they are now. I guess you would have rather left that mad man in power and not want anything done about it.
I think not only is the news media hard on the president but so are librals. I’m not saying President Bush is a great president by no means, but i think he is doing the job to the best of his ablility. His ability my not be far reaching but i do think he has good intentions.
Wayyyyy too hard. It doesn’t matter who the president is, as soon as he’s in office BAM! All of you bastards hate him.
I don’t care who you are, in the office of the President every single thing will be evaluated, contorted, spun, lied about, etc. There are always going to be people who voted for you and those who did not. It is impossible to make everyone happy. What bothers me is those who spend so much energy placing blame (most of the blame of the current situations is from trying to clean up previous messes of prior adminstrations) if that same energy was placed into making a real difference this country would be so much better off.
Hard. I guess that it is just the media, and therefore the easily-swayed people, who complain about everything.
depends on what you’re watching. Fox is nicer. But really, this man is very easy to criticize. He may not be an idiot, but he’s incredibly inarticulate.
so i guess, hard.
I think they’re being unusually hard on him. It’s like the man can do absolutely nothing right in their eyes.
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Hard, but they’re hard on everyone. It’s how they sell subscriptions.
is this all dan does?
sit on his fat ass all day and find stupid internet facts to ask as questions?
make a personal post or something dan?
then again if all you do is nothing then i guess this is what you get?
go play video games, watch cartoons, go to a bar, or something.
do something and write about it and make your blog interesting.
good lord.
too hard. sure the president has made some poor choices…but who can say in their life they haven’t? unfortunately the media scrutinizes and “watches” every move of public officials and pounce on anything…giving the public ammunition to fire at their decision making. Can any of you say what you would do in the situations the president found himself in while in office…starting with 9/11? He also has to depend on other people just like the american public does for information…i mean dan was scammed by a PETA story. Have any of you made poor choices in what and who to believe?
we may not agree with some of his policies or decisions…like many of us do with others authority figures in our lives…but he is the president and i believe he deserves respect as such and also as a fellow human.
Not hard enough, because the idiot just keeps talking.
hard or soft. depends on performance and skill. by the way, can we think of things that never existed?
It depends on which media network we are referring to. I can see how former President Bush would be upset though. How would we handle the press and ______ % of Americans saying bad things about our child. His complaint is expected, and (really) understandable from a parent’s perspective.
The national media certainly has a reputation for bashing conservatives, but I think W has caused a lot of his own problems.
Thy hate him and always have. They are hard on all Presidents but Bush they hate. What other President has seriously been blamed for the weather?
well let’s look at it this way, since the media is completely controlled by the dems then of course they’re hard on a republican president…
Can’t you form an opinion of your own? I’d like to see a post that isn’t a quick question or something utterly retarded.
This is a no brainer, Dan. Of course they are harder on Bush. They hate Bush. The media has an agenda and Bush gets in the way of the media’s agenda. The media’s agenda is to have all DemocRATS all of the time in office. After all in a survey a few years ago it was shown that 89% of the media people vote Democrat all the time.
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One last point. Iraq, you mentioned Iraq. would you have rather left Sad[d]am in power and watch as thousands of in[n]ocent people suffer under a tri[a]ble dictator[?] Posted 1/27/2007 9:07 AM by Jesus_Freak_58
Yes.
No offense intended, but this presidency has been a disaster in so many ways. Global warming…–twoberry
lol this is too funny. c’mon people. you cannot blame something that isn’t even happening on someone who doesn’t have control over the weather! even if there was such a thing as global warming, being President doesn’t make you God! btw, i think they’re being way too hard on him. especially compared to the praises they sang of ex-Pres. Clinton (and her husband). That presidency had enough evidence to put Osama BinLaden in the slammer and they chose not to!! at least Bush went after him! Pres. Bush isn’t perfect, but he’s protecting our country.
They’re hard on him, but they’re the media. That’s what they do, unfortunately.
By the way, that cat spa video is hilarious.
Of course they are hard on him. They are SUPPOSED to be hard on him. Jeeze….the media is also hard on Paris Hilton but hey…..when you are in the public eye it is expected……Ol’ George is not doing anything to make the press go a little “easier” on him now is he? It is expected that his father would feel that way…. any parent would.
Liberals despise Republicans, so they are doing what comes natural……..
Fair. He says stupid things, does stupid things and the media are there to catch him, so what’s the big deal? Of course you’re going to defend your kid, but most of the criticism is well deserved.
Hard and appropriately so, I am a Bush person but I don’t want the press to go easy on any president, I want to have them be accountable to all facets of the society. Even if the press is frightenly liberal and antagonistic towards him it should spur him to self check himself and his motives for policy and implementation. The press is biased against him and we do not get a fair unbiased reporting of the news, but that is true for either side of the debate.
They are hard on him, and I feel bad for him.
Harder then they were on Clinton
The media has “personal animosity” towards everyone. That’s the nature of news, which reflects the nature of mind: bad news attracts, interests and sells, good news doesn’t.
Too hard for what he is, remember, he’s only commander and chief, theres not much he can do on his own, everything else has to be passed by Congress and then signed by the president.Blame congress, you know, the ones we elect to represent us.
not hard enough.
personal opinion, but i think that he should take that backlash to heart. obviously he’s not paying close enough attention to the the needs/wants of this country if the media is becoming “too harsh”. he’s become power hungry and frankly, if he’s going to be sending thousands of our young men and women to fight in a completely unnecessary war under the false pretenses of “fighting terror” then he should be able to handle a little criticism. basically, he gets to sit in his cozy little office and decide the fate of thousands of our troops and seemingly without a consience. he needs to grow a pair and reap what he’s sewn.
completely hard…. jerks
DUMB CONGRESS!!! GEERRRR
congress needs to be impeached
Hard
Our media has more offenses than being hard on a president. The media is a circus of whores that despises truth and loves to roll in the lucre of their harlotdom. Heck, they make lawyer jokes obsolete.
Hehe… you said, “hard on” and ”bush.”
its hard being the president. & thats partly the media’s job. SO DEAL.
I don’t support everything President Bush does. However, I do think the media is verrry hard on him.
Really fucking hard
they are. but that’s the media you know? they’re assholes to most people.
BTW, I noticed a huge… I mean HUGE… difference between the way CNN and Fox covered the State of the Union address. Guess who had over one hour of focus on Bush bashing even before the speech began? **Cough. CNN. Cough**
So, it depends on which media source. Not all sources can be classified as hard or easy / liberal or conservative.
And lastly, that kitty wash thing is just wrong.
obviously very hard, mostly cause the media is so liberal, but theyre even rough on the democrats sometimes (of course not as much though
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Too hard on him. It’s like he’s dealing with a double-edged sword. He’s damned if he does and he’s damned if he doesn’t.
hmm well im gonna say hard and not due to anything he does or says but thats the media they make life crappy for you
but if your a good president you and ignore that and do what YOU know is right
when u do something and u know your going to be in the public eye then u know what your in for so its just the way things are and if he cant handle it by himself then hes not such a great president
Hard.
Hard, and although Bush deserves an unbiased media, he’s still not getting everything he deserves.
He deserves every bad comment about him.
It has been very unbalanced lately. When you watch NBC and then change to FoxNews, you wonder if you’re in the same country because they news is presented so different.
I got a kick out of the comment that said Bush was a failure because of global warming. Last time I checked, the President has little to say about the weather.
hard, of course.
who knows? we only know what the media tells us.
Of course it would be very hard on him. They tend to always look towards the negitive things about him.
“I don’t want the press to go easy on any president, I want to have them be accountable to all facets of the society. . . .” Posted 1/27/2007 9:57 AM by Captive_Man
Amen, and could we add Congress to that as well? Hell, any elected official. They are hard on Bush, but I’d be happier if they were harder on Congress.
ryc: Thank you!
hard and thats why i wouldn’t want to be president
‘If we had gas pricess would be lower then they are now.’
You think they went over for oil for US! haha, thats too funny, but no, the wars aren’t designed to benefit us, though they kind of bost the economy temporarily, providing a spark so that with sustainable good economic olicy, it would be able to launch us back into the black, hopefully. Right now doesn’t look like it to me, but I won’t judge him on that just yet.
But back to the oil-anyone who thinks it was to make oil prices lower is wrong, or doesn’t get the BFO (blood for oil) arguements, they invaded to get control of the gasoline, thus being able to boost the oil prices.
And to answer the original question, no, until the media questions absolutely everything the government does or says, they are not close to doing their job.
Hard.
I think they are hard on him. But he is President and all. Anyone who takes that post has to know that half the country will not like them. I don’t think they were as hard on Clinton as they are now with Dubya. Even through the Lewinsky scandal, there were people in the media who stood by his right to privacy. Even when he illegally bombed that pharmaceutical factory, some of the media killed the story. I think that most of the media is skewed in one direction or the other with the majority leaning left.
I think he deserves a lot more than snide remarks about his intelligence.
He deserves outright anger for his actions; if the media are the spokespersons for the people, they are not doing a bang-up-enough job.
Posted 1/27/2007 8:45 AM by RaVnR
Couldn’t have said it better.
i think they have been about the same as they always are
i think the media is quite hard on him. not that i would expect them to be otherwise, but it seems like they have taken up a personal vendetta against him. he never does anything right (even when he does) because everything he does is wrong (which it isn’t).
The majority of the press hate him. They’ve been way too harsh.
Absolutely not. In fact, in some cases it has not been hard enough.
Because of him, thousands of people have lost their lives. I think a little media scrutiny is the least he can endure.
And they certainly aren’t harder on him than they were with CLINTON.
“I don’t want the press to go easy on any president, I want to have them be accountable to all facets of the society. . . .” Posted 1/27/2007 9:57 AM by Captive_Man
Well put!
This is interesting considering how many arguments there are about various news networks and how they either favor the left or the right. The reality is that President Bush is the President, and therefore he is going to be the target of bad press whether he deserves it or not.
They can be very harsh..to anyone. I think the President gets picked on because he is in fact the President. The president will always be under a critical public eye. I have many issues however with Bush’s presidency. There are days that I like him, and days that I dont..Most of the time I am trying to figure out what the heck he is doing. I wonder if too much power can go to our heads at times.
I think hard but the people of the u s are harder toward him
the press is hard on him, but it’s an occupational hazard. (he really should have thought of that before he ran) I’m not particualarly pleased with mr. bush’s work as president, but if you’re running a country of over a million people, you can’t please everybody.
Easy. Does anyone have any idea how censored the media is?
very hard
hard with good reason
Hard, but he deserves it. I agree with twoberry on this one – they should be even harder on him then they are now.
The press is hard on a lot of presidents. It’s better that they’re hard on a president who goes into a war and hurts the country than to be hard on a president who has an affair that doesn’t affect anything important… It’s not fair, but that’s what the press does. They care about money, not morals – just look at how they invade celebrities’ lives, and tell girls to be anorexic. That’s the media. They’re kind of stupid sometimes.
The media is f*cking rediculous in how the treat Bush. They shamelessly attack any Republican because they like democrats more. The idea of being fair in reporting is a joke
“I’m wondering, how does the president affect Global warming at all? People have been talking about global warming since the early 1990′s. Geroge W. wasn’t in power then last time I checked. Alos, how on earth do you blame a hurricane on the presdent? I’m no expert but i don’t know of anyone who controls the weather.” Jesus_Freak_58
He can’t control the weather or global warming, but he can help the people who are affected, and take control of some of the things we do in this country. As for Katrina, he didn’t handle that very well, you’ve got to admit. And global warming? Well, he sure as heck didn’t make things better for the environment, did he? I don’t think changing things like the Clean Air Act are helping global warming much. He can’t totally control it, but he can try to help it, and he’s been doing the opposite.
“The media is f*cking rediculous in how the treat Bush. They shamelessly attack any Republican because they like democrats more. The idea of being fair in reporting is a joke” Corwin256
Hahah, yeah, sure. Fox News, anyone?
There are news companies on both sides.
They’ve been hard on him, yet they’ve been hard almost every president. I do think that they’re blaming him for some things that aren’t necessarily his fault.
hard
I think anyone who does make decisions based in line with the beliefs of the media ges harshly treated. Some people who come to mind who have been so treated are: Bush, Santorum, Lott, and Lieberman. The media is incrediably biased and no longer has any objectivity. If you are a liberal, they will report nothing bad about you while if you are conservative, nothing you do is right. How much has the media said about where the Madrasa accusations came from about Obama or Harry Hyde’s amazing land deals or Abscam and Murtha or Jimmy Carter’s recent antisemetic remarks and the resignment of many of the Carter Center’s staff.
hard.
Hard. The media is mostly Democrat and they hate the Republicans.
I think everyone’s too hard on Bush.
Hard.
Are you SERIOUS?
Of course the media has an irrational hostility towards Bush. It is absolutely pathological.
Hard
I think that Bush brought it on himself.
Too hard.
I would say that 90% of the media is against President Bush. Some are flat out opposed, while others might not be so vocal if the war wasn’t involved in his presidency. I think it is important for all of us to view all the networks, instead of just one or two, then make a more rounded decision about what is going on.
No harder on him than anyone else. Geeze, what a crybaby!
Just not hard enough.
’nuff said….
I think that they’re just hard on him because it makes people like me laugh at what an idiot George W. Bush is…
WAY too hard.
They make him look like a moron when he’s actually very smart.
They’re pretty hard on him.
They’ve been pretty damn hard on him.
Most definitely hard! As the leader of our country- they sure get treated like poop!
The press hates everyone.
The Bush administration is well deserving of the bad press and popular entertainment. They are a pulse of public opinion aren’t they?
they are unduly hard on our president, and not only hard, but extremely biased. when our president does good things (which, yes, he does do) we never hear about them. the point of journalism is to report the news objectively. that is hardly the way to describe the majority of journalists today.
Wayyyyy too hard. It doesn’t matter who the president is, as soon as he’s in office BAM! All of you bastards hate him.
Posted 1/27/2007 9:07 AM by BurpingTiger
i agree..
Hard, hard, hard.
The media is virtually entirely liberal.
Mostly just honest
the media is no harder than it should be on him, and perhaps not hard enough. if you can’t stand the heat, don’t run for the job…
“i’m sick of all the griping. let the man do his job till his term is over, and then elect someone else to pick on. there will never be a time when everyone is happy—NEVER.”
I whole-heartedly agree. By the way, most of the presidents we look back at now and admire where hated by the people they were elected by at some point.
Whatever, even though I don’t particularly like him as a president, I think the media is still way hard on him.
Well, press will always be hard.
Why should he escape it?
The media is hard on everyone!
It’s just plain and simple. The Drive By Media hates President Bush
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The media aren’t supposed to speak on behalf of the people. They are to report what is going on, preferably in an unbiased manner.
Hard.
Hard, though his presidency hasn’t been very good.
Not nearly hard enough. Guy’s fucking useless.
EXTREMELY hard… harder than I remember past presidents.
Very hard !
History will tell if it was justified or not I suppose. I don’t think Lincoln was much liked at the time he served either but most think of him as one of the greatest of our presidents. Not always but sometimes I think the news reporters are the new makers in the way they frame stories injecting or removing parts of the story as what ever their bias is.
I appreciate that at least Bush stands firm for what he believes based on his convictions and with the information that he gets. I have never been convinced that one should just stick his finger up every time a decision has to be made to see how the wind blows or how everyone else feels as to how they would make a judgement.
Maybe we should educate ourselves better on how we pick a president by what they believe in rather than how they look or talk.
They haven’t liked any president in the last fifty years except Clinton, and they weren’t always nice to him, either, they just supported most of his politics.
Yes, there is media bias. Yes, most of it is liberal. Except on Fox, which is admittedly conservative, and on talk radio, which is dominantly conservative.
Yes, I know, I’m a journalist.
i’m sick of all the griping. let the man do his job till his term is over, and then elect someone else to pick on. there will never be a time when everyone is happy—NEVER.
Posted 1/27/2007 8:35 AM by droptop11
excellent. yes, the media is far too harsh on bush. but it’s not just bush. people are all just cynics these days.
hard.
but all war presidents in the past have been treated like him.
i figure he probably expected it.
> No harder than he deserves….
Peace
Hard, but he’s still not exactly my favorite president at the moment.