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Marie Cocco: Bush's Trip Was Typical- All Politics, No Policy
NY Newsday ^
| December 2, 2003
| Marie Cocco
Posted on 12/02/2003 2:22:53 PM PST by presidio9
I became acquainted with the peculiar co-dependency between politicians and cameras when I covered my first presidential campaign.
The candidate one day abruptly changed plans. Instead of a press conference set against what was supposed to be a picture-perfect backdrop, Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis would instead meet reporters at a hotel for a briefing allowing pads and pencils only. The TV crews revolted. Some refused to attend.
"As far as I'm concerned, if it didn't happen on camera, it didn't happen," an NBC man groused.
But what if it happened on camera, and still wasn't really real? What if the lens captures a set piece of propaganda and not a portrayal of some larger truth?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cocco; coocoococco; iraq; mariecocco; mariecuckoo; sourgrapes; thanksgivingvisit; waaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:22:55 PM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Marie Cocco: Bush's Trip Was Typical- All Politics, No Policy The policy is self-explanatory: We are in Iraq and we will stay as long as we have to.
Not liking something doesn't make it go away.
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:26:54 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The policy is self-explanatory...It is to anyone who doesn't have her head shoved up her...derriere.
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:28:51 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: presidio9
Hey, don`t you know Bush isn`t allowed to boost the moral of our troops? It doesn`t help the terrorists!
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:32:15 PM PST
by
metalboy
(I`m still waiting for the mass protests against Al Qaida and Saddam)
To: presidio9
It calls to mind another image from the recent past: The president standing with a bullhorn amid the rubble of the World Trade Center, surrounded by the sooty but grateful faces of firefighters, pausing from their arduous and sorrowful work. At least he went there, unlike the last Prez who pretty much ignored that first WTC bombing, and ignored the fact that the mastermind of that bombing as well as three others involved all came into this country with Iraqi passports! (No Iraq link to terrorism? ha ha ha ..Yeah, Ok)
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:36:35 PM PST
by
metalboy
(I`m still waiting for the mass protests against Al Qaida and Saddam)
To: presidio9
"They say every picture tells a story, and that is so. A series of pictures, over time, eventually tells the truth."
Be careful of what you wish for Ms. Coco, Freepers have a slew of great pictures! Of your guy, also.
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:40:41 PM PST
by
malia
(BUSH/CHENEY '04)
To: mewzilla
Folks who are too far left and not quite bright enough for the Times write for Newsday.
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:41:55 PM PST
by
wtc911
To: presidio9
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:43:29 PM PST
by
Republican Red
(Karmic hugs welcomed!)
To: wtc911
Too true. I daresay it's part of the job description.
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:44:46 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: presidio9; Lazamataz; remember; Perlstein; holdonnow; William McKinley; jmstein7; LS
After losing the 2002 mid-term Senate and House elections, then losing their prize California governorship in 2003, followed by losing their Kentucky and Mississippi governorships in 2003, and then after noticing that they were vastly behind in Presidential fund-raising and popularity, the Democrats in the news media have decided that their only hope is to criticize every breath that President Bush breathes.
And that criticism won't work for them, either. All that it will do is further inoculate the public, who have all grown weary of the daily anti-Bush drumbeat in the news media that so contrasts to what Joe Averages are saying to Jane Americans around our nation in everyday social and business settings.
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:46:40 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
I thought it was "still the economy stupid."
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:49:54 PM PST
by
presidio9
(protectionism is a false god)
To: presidio9
Ms. CooCoo and the libs can't recognize leadership when they see it. They have never associated with anyone in their own party that practiced it.
To: presidio9
The mediots are so military illiterate they don't understand that when troops are away from home for an important holiday, their commander has an obligation to sit down with them for a meal and show their all in it together. In this case, President Bush went way above and beyond the call of duty to show concern for his troops. That's what a good commander does.
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:54:41 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
To: malia
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posted on
12/02/2003 2:58:10 PM PST
by
malia
(BUSH/CHENEY '04)
To: presidio9
In her next breath Marie Cocco will say, with a straight face:
"I support the troops"
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:12:41 PM PST
by
Wheee The People
(If this post doesn't make any sense, then it also doubles as a bump.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:17:07 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt)
To: presidio9
If Bush shows up at the sight of a tragedy, it's a cynical photo-op; if he doesn't show up, he's callous and indifferent to human suffering. The press will interpret Bush as they see fit, to cast him in the worst possible light.
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:17:23 PM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: presidio9
Just one more example of how the RATS are gnashing their teeth over Bush's Thanksgiving coup! Go W!
To: colorado tanker
"President Bush went way above and beyond the call of duty to show concern for his troops. That's what a good commander does." It is classic projection. Because they never do anything wihtout an ulterior motive, they are incapable of conceiving that there are some people who do. Doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do escapes their comprehension as well.
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:20:35 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt)
To: sweetliberty
You nailed it.
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:27:23 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
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