[Libertina]

Is it laziness, arrogance or a willful combination of the two? (says Playboy editor)
It is to avoid jerks like you, Mr. Playboy editor, and your inability to reason beyond the level of whiny kindergartener..

[sarasmom]

ROTFLMAO!
The man has "news" coming at him from all directions all day long!
Some people may think ABCCBSCNNNBC and al Jazeerah are the fount of all knowledge...
But those people have never expeienced the CIADODFBINSAXXX variants.
If you only have so many hours in a day, and a country at war to run, which group of reporters would you listen too?
ROTFLMAO!

[KC_Conspirator]

Let me guess this straight - I am supposed to believe a story about Bush's supposed disdain for the media and the media goes on to cite three sources that absolutely hate him?

Here we have:
1) The NY Slimes who have viciously lied and smeared him for 3-4 years.
2) Walter Cronkite, a far leftist who openly admits his hate for Bush.
3) A nudie magazine which considers Bush an enemy.

I don't blame Bush one bit. All they needed to do was add some quotes from Bush-hater Dana Milbank for the coupe-de-gras.

[McGavin999]

President Bush is like 90% of the American people, he doesn't trust the "media". How arrogant to think that anyone would be able to get the truth from reading a paper or watching the TV news, LOL, just how out of step are these guys? Haven't they noticed the falling subscriptions and the lower ratings? How do they suppose that happened? BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE TOO SMART TO WASTE THEIR TIME ON LIES, and apparent so is their President.

[Metternich]

The indignant liberal press, so angry that the US political world no longer revolves around them.

Dear liberal reporter: Don't go away angry, just go away.

[mercy]

They really are that dumb. Affirmative action in the schools of journalism. NONE of read newspapers any more you idiots! There's no there there.

[MarkL]

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?"

Gee, I can't understand why the leader of the free world, who has direct access to national defense and intelligence briefings, wouldn't feel that he "needs" to read things written about himself by people who hate and try to belittle him... I can't imagine why President Bush would have contempt for those who have presented him to the world as a bumbing, barely literate fool who "stole" the White House from a true intellectual. I can't imagine why at all!

Mark

[hocndoc]

Did any of these people who dare to comment on the reading habits happen to mention that they have a financial interest in what they call the news?

[Inyokern]

Bush may in part be playing to people who have distrusted the media ever since the Watergate days, when Vice President Spiro Agnew railed against the media's "nattering nabobs of negativity."

WRONG. Agnew made that speech about three years before the Watergate scandal. And it was "nattering nabobs of NEGATIVISM."

No wonder Bush doesn't bother reading the papers.

[dr_who_2]

LBJ was a bit of a jerk, but I imagine listening to him ball out Cronkite on live television would have been enjoyable, especially if he could make old Walter cry.

[smoothsailing]

All those (Cronkite et al) are upset because they are out of the loop.

The White House, the Pentagon, our troops overseas, are all tuned to Fox News.

I do not pity Cronkite et al for being apoplectic.

Their demise is well deserved.

[Cultural Jihad]

But unlike his predecessors, analysts say, Bush openly brags about not reading newspapers, watching TV news or TV newsmagazines - dismissing the news media as unworthy of his time.

"I get my news from people who don't editorialize," Bush told ABC's Diane Sawyer last week. "They give me the actual news, and it makes it easier to digest, on a daily basis, the facts."

Most worthy of a repeat. Let the talking and scribbling heads whine and moan over their expanding irrelevancy.

[VRWC For Truth]

But unlike his predecessors, analysts say, Bush openly brags about not reading newspapers, watching TV news or TV newsmagazines - dismissing the news media as unworthy of his time.

Hah, same as me, no surprise here. Media is in "we are not irrelevant" mode. Message to the media: See ya .... losers.

[GOPrincess]

This article was unintentionally hilarious. The idea that the President of the United States would learn anything substantive by turning on the TV news while on the treadmill is beyond funny. And quoting someone from Playboy was the best they could do? They must have been desperate for a negative comment.

[Ronin]

"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,"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

[Mr. Mojo]

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?"

lol.....easy, Kaminsky. This guy sounds like he needs to be spending a little more time at the Mansion.

[Jackson Brown]

"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?

I used to work for several newspapers, including the LA Times, Herald Examiner, the Washington Post, (and the Washington Star way back when). I KNOW what they do with the news...they slant/spin/arrange everything to fit their agenda. Even when they don't write it, they take wire stories where they aren't allowed to change anything (except the headline) and edit out ANY paragraph that doesn't "fit" their agenda.

Except for our VERY local "free sheet" that covers local town issues, I've not read a line in the newspaper since the Internet came along. Still, I guarantee that I know more about what's going on then 99% of people that read any "major" newspaper from cover to cover every day...including "journalists" that still work for those same papers. I'm sure there are many here that can say the same.

[suzyq5558]

I dont blame president Bush for disdaining the media,not at all. the media is so crazed with hostility towards this administration why bother?
the media make's me ill,i dont listen to them or read them any longer myself.

[ForGod'sSake]

death rattle
n.

A gurgling or rattling sound sometimes made in the throat of a dying entity(eg, maintsream medis), caused by loss of the reality reflex and passage of the thought processes through accumulating arrogance.

FGS ;^)

[Luke21]

Where is the phrase "liberal news media" in this nonsense? These people are complete idiots. How could the animosity Republicans have to these Bolshevik nags in the press not even be mentioned? But it is so very predictable.