[Steely Tom]

C'mon, this is really from The Onion, right?

(steely)

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm with Bush on this, especially when it comes to the NY Slimes.

[Keith in Iowa]

What that whazoo-aperture, Mr. James Kaminsky, does not realize is that what is being put on TV as 'news' really isn't. It's infotainment or propaganda.

[section9]

Fools.

Bush watches the Snooze and reads the papers.

But he pulls this Ike stuff to make the press think he's just a dummy.

And they will fall for it, hook, line, and sinker.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[farmfriend]

a free and independent press

Free and independent yes but certainly not unbiased.

[T Lady]

With the majority of what the 'Rat Media says about the man, I really can't blame him for not reading any newspapers; as for the snotty comment made by the Smut-er-I mean Playboy editor, Mr. Bush has better things to do with his time than read the snide and crass things you all often print about him--and by the way, Ms. Editor, the man DOES read. Besides, when you read most of what are supposed to be 'news stories', you're reading the Editor's opionions as opposed to the facts about any given subject--notably the way Mr. Bush is running the country.

-Regards, T.

[Snuffington]

Says Playboy editor James Kaminsky: "It's appalling to think that the man who runs the country somehow finds time for a long gym workout each day, but can't muster up the intellectual curiosity to peruse the newspaper. Is it laziness, arrogance or a willful combination of the two? Does the president really need a human filter to deliver only news the White House staff thinks he wants to hear? Do gossip items sometimes get thrown into the daily 'readings'? How about the funnies? How hard is it to watch the damn TV news, even while working out?"

Money paragraph here. It has the full-blown self-importance of the old media, delivered with anger and scorn by a proud pornographer. And the media left wonders why America thinks they're out of touch, instead of Bush.

[dirtboy]

File this one under "C" - as in Cry Me a Frickin' River...

[Roscoe Karns]

[wizardoz]

Gee, too bad all the people who really know how to run the country are too busy editing freshman essays on dorm policy or snapping pictures of naked waitresses.

[FreedomCalls]

So what does the New York Times have that the President's Daily Brief doesn't?

[prov1813man]

These guys just don't get how irrelevant they have become to many, if not most, Americans. Their claims to be "influential" or important are where the real arrogance lies.

Once, when I was refusing a telephone solicitation offering me a free subscription to the local rag I was asked "how do you find out what is going on ?". I answered, "I know what's going on. It's just different stuff than you know. "

The great newsrooms of the past have been replaced by "journalistic enterprises" staffed by a bunch of college re-educated former hall monitors who spend much of their time interviewing each other between visits to their shrinks working out the issues that caused them to get their a$$es kicked so much in high school. Why would anyone with important things to get done take them seriously ?

[squidly]

I count it as a positive that the C-in-C isn't wasting his time reading the stuff that passes for journalism these days. Post 13 sums it up pretty well.

[tbeatty]

Gosh, they hate him.

Is it really hard to understand that he makes the news? As GWB put it, he gets his briefing directly from the "unnamed source in the Whitehouse."

This is also why the press loved the "poll politics" of Bill Clinton. If the wind blew, right or wrong, Bill Clinton blew with it (no pun intended). The press felt so important when they were able to sway public opinion and have Bill Clinton sway right with it. GWB gets the data and does what he feels is right. When it's a political decision he gets his data from his research team, not a political pundit who only pondered the issue that morning while sitting on the pot. Pot Pondering Political Pundits? I like it.

GWB does just fine and has assembled a great team. I only hope the press doesn't have enough power to derail him. We can only hope the press realizes how dangerous Howard Dean would really be and turn on him early.

[ClancyJ]

How else is he to get the truth - without the analysis, the lies, the distortion, the misleading, the mistakes, the errors, the unconfirmed sources?

So much more effective to get the news with only the truth, without the political slants. Also prevents his blood pressure from rising while reading all the insults.

[Burkeman1]

Reading your opponnents and knowing their thoughts is essential. I doubt Bush is being literal when he says he doesn't follow the "mainstream media" in this country. I am sure he does.

[okie01]

...says Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "It makes you wonder if the only people he is talking to are people who work for him or agree with him and whether everything he sees about America he learns through them or through the window of a motorcade. One of the few ways to not do that is to read a newspaper or watch TV."

They haven't a clue, have they?

As if they believe today's newspaper or TV has anything to do with the "real America".

And it's pointless telling them Bush has hired the best-of-the-best to advise him, hardly "yes men". They wouldn't understand that, either.

[Lancey Howard]

Great post!
The best part is at the end where the liberals whine:

"It's difficult to understand why a president who spends so much time promoting the virtues of democracy would want to insulate himself from one of democracy's most important institutions, namely, a free and independent press," says Stanford University journalism professor Ted Glasser.

Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism: "It makes you wonder if the only people he is talking to are people who work for him or agree with him and whether everything he sees about America he learns through them or through the window of a motorcade.

Says Playboy editor James Kaminsky: "It's appalling to think that the man who runs the country somehow finds time for a long gym workout each day, but can't muster up the intellectual curiosity to peruse the newspaper. Is it laziness, arrogance or a willful combination of the two?....How hard is it to watch the damn TV news, even while working out?"

I'm with Bush - - I don't often read newspapers, either. (I may peruse the NY Post at Wawa while I'm eating lunch in my car, but that's it.)

Anything in the news that is important always ends up right here on Free Republic, complete with all the corrections of fact, analysis of spin, background and agenda of the source and the author, and cross-references with any number of other news sources. You simply do not get that anywhere else.

Thank you, Jim Robinson.

[TomServo]

during Watergate and Bill Clinton's throughout Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair.

Oh puh-leeze. The media was Monica during the clintoon admininstration.

[MJY1288]

When you are the President of the United States of America and privy to early morning threat assessments from the most respected Intelligence Agencies in the world as well as updates from his political and Domestic advisor's second to none, The mainstream media maggots are just annoying ankle biters who deserve scorn and patronizing at most