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"Mr. Bush" not "President Bush"
NBC Today Show | 1/7/04 | NBC Journalists

Posted on 01/07/2004 7:54:20 AM PST by websterdog

Reported this morning on the Today Show, in the segment about the illegals working in this country, the regulars (Matt, Katie, Ann & Al) go to the reporter in the field and our president is referred to as "Mr. Bush" not "President Bush".


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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"Ah, but kind sir, the national news media ARE following the dnc's latest faux fax sheet about honorifics and political titles: IN EVERY recent story about Howard Dean, they have been using "Dr. Dean" ten-twenty times per story!"

I thought I was the only one who noticed the "Dr. Dean" title being used. Yes, he is a doctor, and deserves to be called as such. But it seems like that's the title of choice these past several days from almost all of the conventional media TV outlets (about the same time the news was leaking out about Dean's issues in VT as gov).
61 posted on 01/07/2004 10:26:48 AM PST by Skywarner (Freedom isn't Free. Remember our WWII vets!)
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To: websterdog
It has gone on since PRESIDENT Bush took office. And yes, it is still PRESIDENT Clinton to these liberal hacks. NO respect for the office at all.
62 posted on 01/07/2004 10:28:37 AM PST by ladyinred (What the heck happened to 2003?)
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To: websterdog
If they like they guy, they use the term "President". IF not, it's "Mr." In any official setting, I refer to Klinton as "Mr. Clinton".
63 posted on 01/07/2004 10:33:44 AM PST by Dan from Michigan ("Every man dies. Not every man really lives")
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To: Southack
Can you take your silly cut & paste propganda to someone who buys it? Not only are they a seizure inducing eyesore they're also pathetic if "Killed Kyoto Treaty" is near the top of your list as an example of this socialists' great "conservative" core.

Your basic argument is that all of us shouldn't believe our lying eyes.

64 posted on 01/07/2004 10:51:50 AM PST by AAABEST
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To: AAABEST
"Your basic argument is that all of us shouldn't believe our lying eyes."

No, my basic argument is that we shouldn't dismiss real, tangible, conservative accomplishments such as killing the U.S. - CCCP ABM treaty, building and deploying our national nuclear missile defense system, killing the International Criminal Court, killing the Kyoto Global Warming nonsense, banning Partial Birth Abortion, and cutting federal income taxes by more than $1.3 Trillion.

On the other hand, your basic argument seems to be "Panic as soon and as often as you hear the latest 'GWB Sold Us Out' rumor."

Chicken Little would be proud.

65 posted on 01/07/2004 11:38:48 AM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
"Panic as soon and as often as you hear the latest 'GWB Sold Us Out' rumor."

Rumor? Oh I guess we're all hallucinating and delusional.

I guess since we're doing lists:

Handcuffing Israel here and here

Waffling on the UN

Tax Breaks for Envirals

Favoring land grabs

Socializing "Terror" Insurance

Tax breaks to aid envirals

New Multi-billion dollar aid "agency"

NA Fingerprinting

Re-Authorizing Assault Weapons Ban

Feinstein and Schumer Welcome President Bush's Support of Assault Weapons Ban

Applauding racist affirmative action SC decision

I've already spent ten minutes making the above links active but my fingers are getting tired marking up all of this socialism. Forgive me if some of my HTML is off or some of the links are no longer there. Here's more big government from your conservative:

Creation of 175,00 bureaucrat Homeland Security Dept
Here.

Airport Security Ministry
Here.

Freedom Corps:
Here.

Signing CFR
Here.


No guns in Cockpit:
Here.

Patriot Act
Here.

Ted Olson Arguing restraining order = gun confiscation.
Here.

Citizen Spy Network
Here.

Military Police Force
Here.

Farm Bill
Here.

300 billion on health care:
Here.

19.2 billion on WOD
Here.

50% increase in foriegn aid.
Here.

Downpayment for minority homebuyers
Here.

Food Stamps for Illegals
Here.

Mexican "Fast Lane".
Here.

supporting Riorden the RINO:
Here.

Steel Tariffs
Here.

Safe Neighborhoods Program
Here. page=19#19

Global Warming flip-flop
Here.

Extending Unemployment
Here.

Sending Treasury Secretary O'Neill to Africa with Bono.
Here.

FBI Director Mueller Honoring American and Jew Haters.
Here.

500 Million for AIDS in Africa
Here.

Tax Cuts for Enviro and Animal Rights Nazis
Here.

bill extending benefits to homosexual couples
Here.

Some conservative you got there. Yep we're all "chicken littles" who are wrong about him.

Again sorry if all the HTML doesn't work. I had kept the links and the subject but hadn't formatted them until you "inspired" me.

It will be cleaned up and will follow every time I find your list. Deal?

66 posted on 01/07/2004 12:10:01 PM PST by AAABEST
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To: AAABEST
"Some conservative you got there. Yep we're all "chicken littles" who are wrong about him."

Pretty much.

Like any radical, you extrapolate wild-eyed conclusions from the flimsiest pieces of "evidence" in order to somehow "show" that your preconceived notion is rational.

For instance, your above rant manages to call Bush anti-gun, even though President Bush has signed two bills into law arming pilots, told the UN to go get stuffed over their anti-Second Amendment International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty, and ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to inform the U.S. Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment protected *individual* rights to keep and bear arms, something so radically Conservative that even President Reagan dared not do it.

President Bush is also fighting to pass full immunity from the junk lawsuits of activists, cities, and states who wish to litigate our firearms manufacturers out of business.

Oh, and back as Governor, Bush signed CCW into law in Texas.

But such facts don't stop radical extremists like you. You cite his spokesman McClellan on signing the AWB if it reaches his desk and ignore that Bush has said that he would veto *any* new gun control legislation. The only way that the AWB would pass would be if Congress passed its renewal without a single new gun control in it, something that isn't even on the Senate floor (though versions with new gun control measures in them are already under consideration).

And from all of the above, extremists like yourself draw the absurd conclusion that Bush is somehow anti-gun.

That's not even rational.

67 posted on 01/07/2004 12:22:52 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Skywarner
Interesting fact: According to a friend of mine who is a reporter, a Ph. D. is not to be referred to as Dr. in a news story, but an M. D. is.

I may be biased, but I think that Drs. Armey and Gingrich demonstrated greater intellectual acumen in achieving their degrees than someone with a Mediocre Doctorate.

On the other hand, those humanities Ph.D.s come out of Cracker Jack boxes.

68 posted on 01/07/2004 12:33:28 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: websterdog
And certainly any reference to Bill Clinton is always President Clinton. Is this going on in other networks too?

And has been so on CNN since election night, 1992, when "President Clinton's" election returns were compared to "Mr. Bush's"...

That was the first confirmation I had about the liberal bias in the media being a very real threat to conservative ideals.

69 posted on 01/07/2004 12:35:31 PM PST by NorCoGOP (Appeasement of Evil Empowers Oppression)
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To: Southack
That's not even rational.

Look, if somebody wants to vote third party, they're going to do whatever they can to convince themselves it's a good idea. Don't worry, they don't feel "betrayed" by President Bush -- they never supported him in the first place.

70 posted on 01/07/2004 12:39:29 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: AAABEST
AAABEST, thank you for this list and this post.

Please, keep up the good work, it IS appreciated.

71 posted on 01/07/2004 2:52:47 PM PST by Tim Osman (It's okay, I wasn't using those constitutional rights anyway.)
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To: websterdog
Reported this morning on the Today Show, in the segment about the illegals working in this country, the regulars (Matt, Katie, Ann & Al) go to the reporter in the field and our president is referred to as "Mr. Bush" not "President Bush".

Mr. Bush cannot recognize the difference between 'legal immigrant' and 'illegal immigrant,' so apparently he has a language disability of his own.

72 posted on 01/07/2004 2:57:19 PM PST by JoeSchem
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To: Southack
You sound like you just soiled your pants. Sorry 'bout that. Here:


73 posted on 01/07/2004 3:14:10 PM PST by AAABEST
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To: AAABEST
You seem unable to defend your wild-eyed hyperbole with little other than ad hominems. Pity.

I do at least enjoy watching you panic and squeal with each new media rumor, though. So at least you offer entertainment value to your threads thusly.

74 posted on 01/07/2004 3:21:14 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
Oops, I gave you the adult version of the product you require... my bad. Allow me a correction:


75 posted on 01/07/2004 3:33:27 PM PST by AAABEST
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To: AAABEST
Shouldn't you be running around posting that the sky is falling? It seems to me that the only posts that I ever see you make are either insulting someone or attempting to panic someone.

Substance, thy name will never be AAABEST...

76 posted on 01/07/2004 4:53:28 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
Ignore the .05% fringees ~ they get off on making everyone wrong ~ the truth is ~ their self loathing is over flowing. :)

Be Well ~ Be Armed ~ Be Safe ~ Molon Labe!
77 posted on 01/07/2004 5:02:52 PM PST by blackie
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To: Southack
Southack says:


"Shouldn't you be running around posting that the sky is falling?"

78 posted on 01/07/2004 5:09:37 PM PST by AAABEST
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To: websterdog
It's no more childish than referring to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party.
79 posted on 01/07/2004 5:18:47 PM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
IN EVERY recent story about Howard Dean, they have been using "Dr. Dean" ten-twenty times per story!

Then maybe they should start refering to Mr. President, MBA.

-PJ

80 posted on 01/07/2004 5:21:44 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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