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IndianaGreen

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Thu Jul-21-05 05:06 AM
Response to Reply #34

48. And how is this good for the Republic?

Bush took advantage of his bully pulpit and news media cycles to argue that appeals court Judge John Roberts is the right choice for the nation's highest court.

The fact that Bush can manipulate and control the press in the same way he lords over the White House staff has now become an occasion to laud and congratulate Bush. Shame! I don't think this is what the authors of the First Amendment envisioned when they thought they were protecting the press from government control.

During the days of the Republic the words "bully pulpit" were used to described how a President could use the moral authority of his office to bring about a common good, such as when President Kennedy used his influence to end a steel strike. Now, in the early days of the Empire, "bully pulpit" has a more sinister meaning. The Anointed One manipulates a cowardly press to fool the public and to push for his extremist rightwing agenda for the country.

How sad to witness the end of the late, great United States of America!

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-With Roberts Announcement, Bush Takes Media By The Horns	JABBS	Jul-20-05 01:44 PM	#0
- But It's A Criminal Investigation....	K8-EEE	Jul-20-05 01:46 PM	#1
- Still a fumble	Geoff R. Casavant	Jul-20-05 01:48 PM	#2
- Yes, He Is That Bad	AndyTiedye	Jul-20-05 02:03 PM	#4
- Not necessarily. Many of the things he was arguing against were when	merwin	Jul-20-05 02:09 PM	#6
- after seeing the way the guy wife and kids were dressed in the	okieinpain	Jul-20-05 05:56 PM	#27
- It's good that at least the media is pointing out that he's trying to	DS1	Jul-20-05 01:48 PM	#3
- Rove is masterminding his own demise!	skip fox	Jul-20-05 02:05 PM	#5
- No one is stopping DEMs from continuing to talk about it when on TV.	Dr Fate	Jul-20-05 02:22 PM	#8
- not so sure CNN is doing a piece now on the CIA leak	maddezmom	Jul-20-05 02:14 PM	#7
- Hope you're right, but I'm fatalistic with these things.	skip fox	Jul-20-05 03:17 PM	#16
- Sorry, we refuse to give you permission to change the subject.	Straight Shooter	Jul-20-05 02:26 PM	#9
- A strange world where the media openly admits it is being manipulated	alcibiades_mystery	Jul-20-05 02:31 PM	#10
- not like they had a choice	JABBS	Jul-20-05 02:45 PM	#12
- Great post	last_texas_dem	Jul-20-05 03:41 PM	#18
- All Bush did was prove that he's as big an a$$hole...	Enraged_Ape	Jul-20-05 02:35 PM	#11
- We Need to Ask How Roberts Stands on Gov't Officials Exposing CIA Agents	AndyTiedye	Jul-20-05 02:54 PM	#13
- I hope Bu*h the "matador" loses the bullfight and gets his ass gored. n/t	Zorra	Jul-20-05 02:56 PM	#14
- This headline reminds me of one of my Father's old sayings	LittleWoman	Jul-20-05 02:59 PM	#15
- Well, Media, don't get roped.	Miss Chybil	Jul-20-05 03:20 PM	#17
- Alternate spin: now * has to fight on another front. We fight Roberts	Strawman	Jul-20-05 03:49 PM	#19
- This is what makes me sick about these people.	gatorboy	Jul-20-05 03:54 PM	#20
- CHICKENSHITS! The little toadies	zidzi	Jul-20-05 04:00 PM	#21
- Why does the press play along like dolts?	mandomom	Jul-20-05 04:13 PM	#22
- "Co-conspirators in duping America."	Octafish	Jul-20-05 05:42 PM	#25
- Does this picture discribe JR. taking the bull by the horns?	IChing	Jul-20-05 04:20 PM	#23
- And even the Dallas Morning News reported it as:	damntexdem	Jul-20-05 04:29 PM	#24
- But isn't that sort of like saying	BerryBush	Jul-20-05 05:49 PM	#26
- "Forget it, Jake...it's USAToday"	KansDem	Jul-20-05 06:32 PM	#28
- The American people want answers on the Rove/Plame issue. National	oasis	Jul-20-05 06:40 PM	#29
- And this is honorable- him protecting the leakers? it's sick n/t	deacon	Jul-20-05 06:48 PM	#30
- kick	IChing	Jul-20-05 11:54 PM	#31
- Is Bush's control of the press reason to congratulate him for it?	IndianaGreen	Jul-21-05 12:10 AM	#32
- To the Rove orchestrated corporate media: We ain't buying it.	oasis	Jul-21-05 01:22 AM	#33
- "Bush Takes Media by the Horns ": USA Today	bleever	Jul-21-05 05:05 AM	#34
- He usually milks the media, like a horse. n/t	daleo	Jul-21-05 05:05 AM	#35
- That was too funny, too fast.	bleever	Jul-21-05 05:05 AM	#36
- a male horse at that...	MisterP	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#46
- That must be the same way he takes ...	TahitiNut	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#37
- The * pattern is to trample the Constitution.	countmyvote4real	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#38
- And media likes it....	MO_Dem	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#39
- If only we had the Flying Nun on our side.	bleever	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#40
- Damn good thing it's stump broke, ain't it?	PurityOfEssence	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#41
- Bushes in the tabloids	wicasa	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#42
- USA Today is going down!!!	goforit	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#43
- The media is taking him by the horns	shraby	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#44
- I love the last part	Carla in Ca	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#45
- The media is guilty too! Traitors.	upi402	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#47
- And how is this good for the Republic?	IndianaGreen	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#48
- How about these ways	whatelseisnew	Jul-21-05 05:06 AM	#49

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