Bush doesn't like the media

[LTR]

The article doesn't shock me. It's just the fact that it is appearing in a newspaper, particularly (don't rock the boat) USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-12-22-media-mix_x.htm

Bush's disdain for the news media puzzles, angers many journalists

Today, President Bush's relations with the media are no less tense than Johnson's were during Vietnam, Richard Nixon's during Watergate and Bill Clinton's throughout Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair.

But unlike his predecessors, analysts say, Bush openly brags about not reading newspapers, watching TV news or TV newsmagazines — dismissing the news media as unworthy of his time.

"I get my news from people who don't editorialize," Bush told ABC's Diane Sawyer last week. "They give me the actual news, and it makes it easier to digest, on a daily basis, the facts."

"It's the old MBA thing: 'Give me the five points, the nut graph,' " says veteran CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante. He says this is one of the most secretive administrations ever — highly distrustful of the media.

[LTR]

1. Oops! Almost forgot this little gem:

Bush's wife, Laura, told Sawyer she read newspapers and columnists and tells her husband what they are saying.

Guess he can't handle the truth!

[devilgrrl]

2. What's he worried about?

The media has been kissing his ass from the moment go! :mad:

[Skidmore]

7. Lord, that's a frightening picture of the little diktator...

he's such a mean spirited, little viper.

[patricia92243]

11. best description i've heard lately

[wingnut]

21. hell, he owns it

might as well like it

[The Zanti Regent]

23. Never has a Dictator had such a fawning press

Let's see, you got the Screw York Times, Whoreshington Post, Lies Angeles Times, Chicago Fibune, Atlanta KKKonstitution, See BS, Nothing But Conservatives, Always Been Conservatives, Public BS, BS-RNC, Conservative News Network and 19th Century Fox all lining up to blow this guy and kiss his ass.

The #1 cheerleader/apologist for this dictator is Boob Woodward, who Media Whores Online crowned as the 2003 Whore Of the Year.

Hitler never had it so good, and Stalin is jealous!

[MrSlayer]

8. Well

You have to be literate to even consider reading a newspaper, I doubt Chimpy qualifies.

[onebigbadwulf]

3. The media is Bush's lap dog

he's upset, but he should be grateful that they havent told the truth to America.

[david_vincent]

4. But I thought that an ability and willingness to think critically and to

make subtle distinctions was a *requirement* of the job! Not to mention an ability to at least seem to like someone, and make them believe you like them and he/she should like you, too.
If a capacity for critical thinking isn't necessary in a President, how are children and students supposed to believe that it's a good quality in a citizen?
But what do I know...

[Killarney]

5. He's such a moron

"I'm just going to have other people tell me what to think rather than strain myself and read" is basically the gist of it.

[BuelahWitch]

6. So The Nut needs a Nut Graph?

How surprising! :eyes:

How about a kick in the nut graph??? :bounce:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. "angers many journalists"...hell it scares the shit outta me.......

that the leader of the free world depends on Rush Limbaugh to inform him :puke: our pResident is the Commander in Ditto-Head

[FredrickDouglass]

10. What Are You Guys Even Talking About

Bush isn't the president, Dick Cheney is. And I don't mean that as a joke.

Fred. D

[Jacobin]

12. Hi, welcome to DU

:hi:

"Blaming Bush* for America's problems is like blaming Mickey Mouse for the long lines at Disney Land".

[booisblu]

13. It's doublespeak

if he gives the impression that he doesn't trust the media, then all his little brain dead followers will dismiss anything bad that might be reported. Always need to follow the opposite with this bunch.

[pansypoo53219]

14. then why do they CODDLE HIM?!?

dammit, take your fuckin gloves off.

[grasswire]

15. how does his functional illiteracy fit in?

Seriously. We don't know if he won't read the reports and news or if he CAN'T read them. There's significant evidence that the man is functionally illiterate.

[maveric]

16. He's "functional"? n/t

[librechik]

18. I was thinking the same thing!

Dyslectics like Bush often never really learn, they just skate.

[Jacobin]

17. Well, they sure as hell LOVE HIM

Jebus.

LordGodBush can do no wrong. The press prances around 24/7 covering up his blunders, worshipping his every move and he repays them with disdain.

Typical. The press obviously has succumbed to the Stockholm Syndrome.

[NewJeffCT]

20. Stockholm, or...

the stockholm syndrome, or else the press is like the powerful guy that goes to a dominatrix to get humiliated, whipped & beaten - and loves it and keeps going back for more.

[leftofthedial]

19. why do they fawn over him so? n/t

[dusty64]

22. Why would he hate

his best friends. The corporate media would NEVER hurt him and have done as much damage to our country as any of the rethugs in Congress.