Pres. Bush is a genuis at the strategic level. He is less gifted tactically. In the bloody trenches--the newsrooms and sound stages of the media elites--he, and we, are getting trounced.
Good article, veronica!
The media is a real problem. Reagan was also faced with a hostile media (who seem now to have forgotten how much they hated and ridiculed him and even his wife).
But he may have had better people helping him confront the media, his acting experience and background with the entertainment industry probably helped him, and things were nowhere near as vicious. There was no Michael Moore out there passing off blatant lies and calumny as truth - and winning awards for doing so.
On the positive side, there is the Internet, where at least some of the truth can get out.
But you're both right, it still doesn't seem as if Bush has found away around the media blockades to really get out to the American people. He needs better advisers, I think.
We shall see how this one plays out, but keep in mind that Bush managed to edge the VP of a popular president before it was clear to the electorate that the economy turned in November/October that year. That is no small achievement in my view.
Lots of people are demanding that Bush do this or that a long ways before Nov. The old saying don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes may hold here. Bush may be being very tactically smart holding back some reserve for the traditional election season.