Posted on 12/01/2018 1:25:48 PM PST by Kaslin
Former President George H. W. Bush passed away Friday night at the age of 94 in his home in Houston. Family, friends, old White House employees, lawmakers, and pundits are sharing their condolences. But, some outlets may be missing the mark.
Here's the blurb the Associated Press chose to define Bush's career:
George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94. https://t.co/LaSU5ho2os pic.twitter.com/ld9KqRHdaU— The Associated Press (@AP) December 1, 2018
Some groups and individuals were outraged by how the AP defined Bush's legacy and why they decided to use words like "weak" and "plummeted."
What an unacceptable headline after America has lost one of our finest.— Osage County GOP (@OsageCountyGOP) December 1, 2018
Seriously, @AP?!? This is disrespectful and completely uncalled for. This is why the media is so despised these days. 41 was a hero and a great man.— Traci Tyson (@tracityson) December 1, 2018
Do better @AP this is beneath you. I think we could all take a step back and thank the man for his service to the nation, and give his family our condolences for their immense loss. Such a cursory take on a life that was so much more than his years in office. #GeorgeHWBush— Rob Haley (@robhaley1) December 1, 2018
It's rarely a good sign when the number of comments exceeds the number of retweets.
Critics would have much preferred if the AP used the second paragraph in their obituary for President Bush as the featured tweet, where the editors write how Bush was a "World War II hero, who also presided during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the final months of the Cold War."
The AP Twitter account did share more sentimental messages in follow up tweets, quoting leaders who recognize and appreciate Bush's years of service.
Others prefer the description from former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer:
RIP President Bush. You fought for your country in WW II and your presidency was marked by dignity, courtesy and grace. You will be missed.— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 1, 2018
Or the message from Bush 41's office:
Former President George H. W. Bush passed away Friday night at the age of 94 in his home in Houston. Family, friends, old White House employees, lawmakers, and pundits are sharing their condolences. But, some outlets may be missing the mark.
Here's the blurb the Associated Press chose to define Bush's career:
George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94. https://t.co/LaSU5ho2os pic.twitter.com/ld9KqRHdaU— The Associated Press (@AP) December 1, 2018
Some groups and individuals were outraged by how the AP defined Bush's legacy and why they decided to use words like "weak" and "plummeted."
What an unacceptable headline after America has lost one of our finest.— Osage County GOP (@OsageCountyGOP) December 1, 2018
Seriously, @AP?!? This is disrespectful and completely uncalled for. This is why the media is so despised these days. 41 was a hero and a great man.— Traci Tyson (@tracityson) December 1, 2018
Do better @AP this is beneath you. I think we could all take a step back and thank the man for his service to the nation, and give his family our condolences for their immense loss. Such a cursory take on a life that was so much more than his years in office. #GeorgeHWBush— Rob Haley (@robhaley1) December 1, 2018
It's rarely a good sign when the number of comments exceeds the number of retweets.
Critics would have much preferred if the AP used the second paragraph in their obituary for President Bush as the featured tweet, where the editors write how Bush was a "World War II hero, who also presided during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the final months of the Cold War."
The AP Twitter account did share more sentimental messages in follow up tweets, quoting leaders who recognize and appreciate Bush's years of service.
Others prefer the description from former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer:
RIP President Bush. You fought for your country in WW II and your presidency was marked by dignity, courtesy and grace. You will be missed.— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 1, 2018
Or the message from Bush 41's office:
The AP stands for Anti-Patriot.
He didn’t plummet due to economic reasons.
He plummeted due to promoting one world government and not finishing Iraq off - which (together wih ceasing immigration enforcement) proved to many he was serious about one world government.
I voted a write in for Alan Keyes.
And here I thought HW was a a serial GOPeer.
Now we have to hear about all the phony stories on how ‘great’ Bush was.
Imagine how unhappy they’d be if they talked about what an insufferable RINO he was.
Then they’d slaver all over his legacy like they did on McCain.
He promised no new taxes. He broke his word.
The AP is a reliable ally of Liberal Democrats. Who is shocked by their cheap shot headline?
Anything positive spouted about
this family of liberal jobbers and grifters, is misplaced.
Anything positive spouted about
this family of liberal jobbers and grifters, is misplaced.
As an old-fashioned New England liberal Republican (you can take the boy out of New England, but you can't take the New England out of the boy), Bush was disappointing in a number of ways to conservatives. But we are better off that he beat Dukakis in 1988 (one of his Supreme Court picks was first rate, whereas Dukakis would have picked too extreme liberals), and we would have been better off if he had beaten Clinton in 1992--we wouldn't have RBG and Breyer on the Court. Possibly he would have given us two moderates in the Anthony Kennedy/Sandra Day O'Connor mold, but they wouldn't have been as bad as Clinton's picks.
It'll be a lot of comparing and contrasting the great patrician dignified war hero GHWB with pussy-grabbing, racist, Islmaophobic, transphobic, homophobic misogynist Drumpf.
It'll be like Aretha McCain x 100!
Get ready for it. Gonna be a long week.
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The AP lied about why GHWB lost. He promised ‘No new taxes’ and after he broke his word the voters gave him no new term.
Bush got himself beat by Clinton and then all but got in bed with him. Bush, 43, too.
I’m sure they both voted for the Hildebeast.
Sympathy for the family. They lost both of them this year. But that’s it.
Absolutely. The combo of Alaskan quake and Bush I RIP destroyed a complete DeepState cabal #Narrative setup viz communication early this week between Mueller's Democrat staff and the MSM to ripshit for Cohen's sentencing.
Now they got NOTHING! Even pissant Wallace will have to cover Bush I, then Alaska, then Cohen in the :20 minute mark - which is EXACTLY the amount of 'coverage' it deserves.
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In the 1940’s, he defended America.
After 1990, he worked for the New World Order and not America.
You left off pedophile.
That runt with the big ears from Texarkana had something to do with GHWB’s loss in 1992 as well.
“In the 1940’s, he defended America.”
Against an enemy his father was funding and enabling so it was the least he could do.
I’ve seen today that he gets a pass on all his crimes because he ‘served his country’ and hence you can not criticize him at all. At least according to some people that are trying to use the ‘military card’ in the same way you use a ‘race card’.
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