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I suspect much of President Bush's problems are based on constant negative Press reporting of him and his Presidency. I suspect that many Americans do not understand the issues and hate Bush because we are told to by the media. It is a form of brain washing and propaganda.
No, I am not saying Bush is a good President or I support his war or his decisions on economic, political and government programs, but I do think that much of his unpopularity is based on the constant negatively slanted stories in the media. Your thoughts?
Considering the fact that I hate Bush and I rarely get my news from the television, this wouldn't apply to me. The biggest reason he's disliked, right now, is the pathetic excuse for a war he has going on in Iraq. Whether you like the war or not, any idiot on the street could have run a better war than this administration. In simplest terms, they suck. I don't think the media had to go out of it's way to point this out.
Oh, people don't need to watch the news to see what illegal immigration is doing to this country. And people don't need to watch the news to see that Bush is not only doing nothing to stop it, but encouraging it.
Americans are sheep, but as far as Bush is concerned, his incompetence is self-evident.
I think these days even on the Fox News Channel where conservatives in general tend to get positive coverage, their own poll results show Bush in an unfavorable light. When you get to the point when not only the moderates that once swung your way no longer support you, but also some of your staunchest conservatives start to question your tactics, something's gotta give.
As far as I am concerned this is a totally erroneous statement. President Bush has owned the press, and until most recently, mainstream press, including, or even especially The New York Times have supported him come hell or high water.
But with his growing unpopularity among the voters, the press has started to change their own tune, and tone.
And, frankly, I thought he was a bogus candidate, and is an incompetent president, with or without his Yale and Harvard degrees!
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I suspect much of President Bush's problems are based on constant negative Press reporting of him and his Presidency. I suspect that many Americans do not understand the issues and hate Bush because we are told to by the media. It is a form of brain washing and propaganda.
No, I am not saying Bush is a good President or I support his war or his decisions on economic, political and government programs, but I do think that much of his unpopularity is based on the constant negatively slanted stories in the media. Your thoughts?
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I suspect much of President Bush's problems are based on constant negative Press reporting of him and his Presidency. I suspect that many Americans do not understand the issues and hate Bush because we are told to by the media. It is a form of brain washing and propaganda.
No, I am not saying Bush is a good President or I support his war or his decisions on economic, political and government programs, but I do think that much of his unpopularity is based on the constant negatively slanted stories in the media. Your thoughts?
I think much of his low popularity is due to a poorly planned war effort and the continually arrogant attitude of his administration, is the media now responsible for those plans and attitude?
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He is getting bad press now because people are finally seeing the light! Is there anything actually good to say about him?
As much as I dislike his policies and actions I really don't think he's a bad man at heart. Unfortunately I think he suffers the rigid tunnel vision that seems to affect many recovering substance abusers, not a good quality for a president.
I really don't understand why people are so short term memoried on some aspects of the problems we are facing today. Bush has not led the country very well overall. But for his failures in the Iraq war, a lot of people tend to bash him obsessively, even for things that aren't his fault (completely anyway).
Take the WMD stuff that was the charges America moved on to start the war with Iraq. Many people now accuse Bush of making up the WMD story as an excuse to go to war. But oddly, it was Bill Clinton stating on Larry King live in 2003 that "it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons''. It was Clinton who used the WMD's as a basis for a unilateral action of bombing a medicine production facility in Sudan. When pressed by the UN for evidence behind the claims for the bombing, the only thing that could be produced was a soil sample that contained a precursor chemical that could be used to make VX nerve gas, which the soil sample was collected "by clandestine efforts of undercover agents", which means no real validity other than we say so.
That is one of the things that bothers me the most is that Clinton spoke for 2-3 years about Saddam and how dangerous he was and the WMD's and his refusal to cooperate with the UN, etc. Many democrats were behind Clinton at the time, as were many republicans. Now that the war has gone bad, everyone wants to wants to wash their hands and point at Bush.
That is what annoys me. How the democrats try to pretend like they never said anything and that everything that went wrong is ALL Bush's fault.
Blame Bush for what he has done bad and wrong, because there is plenty of it. But to give others that have been involved in allowing and causing a lot of this to happen a free pass is just flat out BS.
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