Bush Takes Potshots at Messenger: By Helen Thomas

[kpete]

Published on Friday, March 31, 2006
by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bush Takes Potshots at Messenger
by Helen Thomas

WASHINGTON -- President Bush seems to believe the news media's coverage of the Iraq war is why many Americans fail to see that everything is coming up roses there.

That's an old ploy: "Kill the messenger who brings the bad news."

The administration had a free ride with the news media and Congress in the run-up to the war, with few questions asked.

Three years ago, news outlets and TV networks played ball, keeping gruesome photographs off television and meekly abiding by Pentagon rules that put military caskets off limits to reporters and cameras. But even as the U.S. news media now shows signs of recovering its courage, images or news stories won't decide the success or failure of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq.

That will be determined by whether the people of Iraq will show that they want to live with one another in peace, without outside interference.

Lots, lots, lots more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0331-20.htm

[jsamuel]

1. hehe, she said "roses"

[MADem]

2. Indeed, she did! n/t

[Fridays Child]

4. A private shout-out to her rosy friends at DU?

Hmm... wouldn't surprise me. :)

[JuniperLea]

7. Everything's coming up roses for me and for you!

Curtain up! Light the lights!
We got nothing to hit but the heights!
I can tell, wait and see.
There's the bell! Follow me!
And nothing's gonna stop us 'til we're through!
Honey, everything's coming up roses and daffodils!
Everything's coming up sunshine and Santa Claus!
Everything's gonna be bright lights and lollipops!
Everything's coming up roses for me and for you!

[rhino47]

3. I am sure 86 dead report families are glad to hear that they are at fault.

This sick shit of a misadminstration should have their asses kicked.This is a dishonor of the reporters and their families that have died covering this debacle.

[physioex]

5. Same Tactic, Different Era.......

It was all planned by Uncle KKRove to spin the lies.....

And as far the media being sleeping at the wheel, there are alternate news sources like the blogs that people like us can turn.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Things aren't coming up roses in Iraq

However, for one of the few American journalists who still does her job . . .