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Bush disagrees with Trump, says press not an 'enemy'
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 2/27/17 | Kyle Feldscher

Posted on 02/27/2017 11:47:15 AM PST by ColdOne

Former President George W. Bush believes President Trump is off track by fighting the media and speaking out against Islam in speeches and in his executive immigration order.

Bush didn't directly criticize Trump in an NBC interview on Monday, but he used his own time in office to contrast with what how the current president is using the presidency. When asked about Trump's spats with the media, Bush said he never considered the press the "enemy of the American people," as Trump said last week.

"I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy," Bush said. "We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. Power can be vindictive and corrosive, and we need the media to call out people who abuse their power."

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To: jettester
Bush NEEDS the press, Trump does not.

Maybe. Maybe the way politics works has changed so much that Trump can do it all on his own. Maybe not.

We'll find out before too long. For now, though, people who've been playing the game for a long time are assuming that it won't work out for President Trump.

Bush should just have gone on keeping quiet, but given who he is and what he's been like, it would have been inauthentic and phony-sounding if he were going to get on the Trump bandwagon at this point.

81 posted on 02/27/2017 1:47:25 PM PST by x
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To: ColdOne

He kept quiet for 8 years and now he is promoting his book.


82 posted on 02/27/2017 2:10:27 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: ColdOne
"I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy," Bush said.

And one more outs himself again in his ignorance.

It's a Constitutional Republic, Jorge...you know, that thing you swore to preserve, protect and defend.

83 posted on 02/27/2017 3:20:37 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: ColdOne

Sad to see Bush kissing the butt of the same press that tried to destroy HIM. Sometimes I regret all the times I defended him.


84 posted on 02/27/2017 3:22:20 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: ColdOne
"Power can be vindictive and corrosive . . . "

Mr. President, are you too dumb to see that your statement also applies to the press, maybe even more so than it applies to elected officials, who are subject to removal by the voters, or by presidential term limits, or by impeachment?
85 posted on 02/27/2017 3:24:56 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Theodore R.

Yes, he does seem to care about the wounded Vets. But, frankly, everything he does and says is suspect now. Untrustworthy to me.


86 posted on 02/27/2017 3:54:00 PM PST by slipper (It is almost too late;)
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To: Dahoser

Yeah, it was just mums the word with him the whole time Obama was office. Now he starts chirping.


87 posted on 02/27/2017 4:03:36 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: BitWielder1
We need the press. We also need the Press to be honest.
We are the free press. Anyone who uses technical means to promote his/her opinions functions as part of the freedom of the press.

And we don’t need no stinkin’ badges, either.

Fake news is not merely error, but tendentiousness masquerading as objectivity. And that is what “the media” is all about.


88 posted on 02/27/2017 4:42:23 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: ColdOne
In the first place, they begin with a damn lie.President never said,”the press is the enemy of the people. He said the lying media is the enemy of the people. Every son of a female dog that parrots the,”President Trump said that the press is the enemy of the people”, knows this is a damned lie. Every you know what that repeats this lie is perpetrates a lie and they are fully aware of this.
89 posted on 02/27/2017 4:53:37 PM PST by sport
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To: ColdOne
“Press not an enemy”
. . . says the man who signed McCain-Feingold into law.

The Fake News epidemic makes a mockery of the foundational premise of McCain-Feingold and all “campaign finance reform” laws.


90 posted on 02/27/2017 5:02:43 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: ColdOne

He didn’t open his flapper once with Obama. Oh, oh, do I resent him.


91 posted on 02/27/2017 6:08:11 PM PST by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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