Is CNN totally clueless..."Bush sounds confident note"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

This is a headline under "Politics" on the main CNN page (http://www.cnn.com/) which may change as the day goes on. But "Bush sounds confident note" as a description of what went on last night???



This is the URL for the actual article:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/13/bush.conference/index.html

This is the actual headline when you get there:
"Bush stands firm on Iraq, war on terror
President: 'I don't plan on losing my job'"

And some quotes:

"Citing a conviction "deep in my soul," President Bush vowed Tuesday night to stay the course in Iraq and the war on terror, and predicted American voters will stick with him come November."

"I don't plan on losing my job," Bush said during his first prime time news conference of the year. "I plan on telling the American people that I've got a plan to win the war on terror. And I believe they'll stay with me. They understand the stakes."

snip

"Asked later whether he felt a personal apology to the American people was in order, Bush demurred.

"The person responsible for those attacks was Osama bin Laden," Bush said."

[cheezus]

1. It's like CNN just printed the White House "news" release

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. No CNN has missed the memo

Air American is donig VERY WELL, while they try the Ailes school of "balanced and true reporting."

[rockymountaindem]

7. Is AA really doing well?

I haven't heard any reports. That's great news! (no pun intended)

[montanacowboy]

3. Well, if you think that's bad

how about Tweety's OPENING LINE COMMENT with Howard The Duck: " I think the President showed H U M I L I T Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

wtf??????????????????? humility? these pundits will never stop propping up or glorifying this worthless piece of human garbage. I had to turn it off after that simple stupid comment.

[angryinoville]

6. I felt humiliated just watching and listening...

200 posts for me

[coltman]

8. sorry..

human garbage is giving to much credit to the grizzly remains of a drunkin'grudge fuck.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. Yeah, I heard that (groan)...

...it's what I would have expected after the way he fawned all over Karen Hughes last week.

Funny, during the programs he did with all of the Democratic candidates, I know he asked some unfair and loaded questions...but I never knew he had his head so far up Bush's ass.

When he said that last night I wrote him off for good. I now place him in the same category as Sean Hannity. Different approach, same agenda.

[Carolina]

17. exactly my response

Tweety and Fineman are loathesome whores, pure and simple. Of all the many things to say after a performance like *'s, those two fuckers talk of his humility?! WTF. I turned the TV off and threw the remote across the room.

But this is scary folks. Bush said he DOES NOT INTEND TO LOSE HIS JOB and the talking heads then prop up his psychopathic, immature, idiotic performance. I truly hope I'm wrong but this suggests that the fix is in ...

[tom_paine]

23. No you are correct, The Fix Is In.

However, if Kerry can win by 10% or more, he will "win" by 0.0001% according to Pravda.

We must deliver Kerry a Theft-Proof Victory in 2004 or else the American Experimnent goes into the Ash-Heap of History.

Concentrate and focus on that. Consider carefully what you will do if the Busheviks steal it again.

[wryter2000]

4. Good grief

They couldn't even pick out a tie for him. Even a rank amateur knows you don't wear a tie that'll make visual noise. It was 100% clear everything was scripted, right down to his answers. The one question that caught him off-base made him stutter and go red in the face.

A conservative I know is now asking if there was ever a case where the first term incumbent president didn't get the nomination of his party. He's grasping at straws that Whistle Ass won't run.

[adriennel]

20. seriously, no one put him in front of a mirror

with that hideous tie on? perhaps he does desperately need Karen Hughes to keep his image in check. damn, I thought he was trying to make all of our eyes fall out so we'd forget what an a** he is.

[Sagan]

5. Someone tell CNN...

Confidence in a diastrous policy is not exactly laudable.

[AlinPA]

9. He managed to get CNN others, to replay the line about 'murcans

voting for him to keep his job, i.e., "I believe they'll stay with me. They understand the stakes." Appears they are playing this to make it sound like we will be deserting the war if we vote against the commander in chief and the troops.

[July]

10. When is this country going to be run on facts, evidence, research, and

the opinions and advice of policy experts (whether economists, scientists, career diplomats, or others) instead of on Bush's convictions "deep in his soul"? (And if I believed in souls, I wouldn't believe Bush had one.) What the hell kind of crap is that? If government decisions are made on the basis of soul-deep convictions, any disagreement or criticism of the decisions are functionally irrelevant. Yes, we all should try to determine what we believe and act according to our beliefs, but Bush is once again setting himself up as god -- not as listening to god, but as god. It is a smarmy rhetorical device to get the numbnuts to feel awe.

[Carni]

11. CNN is as vapid as Fox now

Lou Dobbs is about the only show I can tolerate on CNN these days at least the man attempts to be something other than a bush cheerleader.

The so called news anchors on CNN are enough to drive me insane esp the ones on Daybreak and the other show with Soledad O'Brien.

Where the hell did they find that woman anyway?

[Carolina]

18. Soledad came from the other whore station

NBC (nothing but crap) owned by GE (we bring good wars to life).

CNN is a lost cause.

Henceforth, at every rally, public appearance, whatever, Kerry supporters should have signs, as they did after the last primary, with the station call letters circled in red with a slash through them (as in no CNN, no NBC and all its iterations CNBC, MSNBC, no FAUX, or no Wolf, no Candy, no Judy, etc....).

We need to show our support for the Dem candidate as well as let the media know we're on to them.

edited for spelling, duh!

[jackstraw45]

12. What do you expect from Corporate Media???

They are bought and paid for...

CNN>Turner>Aol Time Warner

Follow the money...$$$$...

WE'VE got to spread the word on the train wreck last night. The media in the United States is bought and paid for by big GOP donors.

[mouse7]

13. CNN = GOP Pravda

CNN is the voice of the GOP now. It's every bit as independent as Pravda was in Soviet Union days.

[mouse7]

14. CNN = GOP Pravda

CNN is the voice of the GOP now. It's every bit as independent as Pravda was in Soviet Union days.

[mouse7]

15. CNN = GOP Pravda

CNN is the voice of the GOP now. It's every bit as independent as Pravda was in Soviet Union days.

[adriennel]

19. Yes, CNN is totally clueless

when I checked the headlines this morning, they didn't even have one about the Bush "news" conference...guess they had to wait and tap the creative side for that "Bush Sounds a Confident Note" horsecrap.

I used to love CNN. Since they've gone apeshit in the past year, I feel as if I have lost my best news friend. Luckily, I now check the headlines at DU!

[tom_paine]

21. CNN is a disgrace to the profession, and to our nation

It is the Pravda of Slaves.

It is LIES.

It may be even worse than Faux, because while Faux fools few who aren't already of a Totalitarian Bent of Mind (and therefore utterly useless to Free Americans) CNN actually dupes people into thiking their Imperial Bootlicking is Centrist.

:puke:

Yeah, and Soviet Pravda of 1978 was also impartial.

:puke:

[Merrick]

22. How about a "War on Random Violence"?

Here's how it could work: let the cops beat the crap out of anybody walking around with a scowl on their face.

more future potential battlegrounds:
the war on laziness
the war on confusion
the war on jerks
the war on wrong numbers

[deacon]

24. They are making fools out of themselves

Anyone with half a brain who saw that news conference knows it was a disaster.