The media insists on reporting on every bad thing that happens without reporting any of the good things.
But even the MSM couldn't report that the Iraqi elections went badly, even when they'd predicting exactly that for the past several months.
So, Americans finally heard some good news out of Iraq, and that's why support went up.
you got it. reeds blowing in the MSM wind... pathetic..
and just think how popular he'd be if the media reported all the good news from Iraq and Afghanistan?
There was a time .. thirty years ago when as much negative media coverage as Iraq has gotten would have turned the public totally against President Bush. But it did not.
But today the Media is far less believable than it was 30 years ago. They have on several occasions been very vocal and then proved to be very wrong.
There is value to Republicans in this last situation. The public had been told by the media and the Democrats that the election in Iraq was going to be a disaster. Bush and his administration said the opposite. They said it was going to be a success. The Democrats used Condaleeza's confirmation to make sure everyone knew the Democrats had told them the elections would be a disaster. The media sent lots of reporters to report the disaster.
But the Reporters were forced to report the truth.. The Elections were a success.
The public drew a real conclusion.. Bush truths and the media and Democrats lie.
There are those that say the Bush approval rating of 57 percent has no meaning. But it does. Another 3 or 4 percent of the swing voters have come to the conclusion that the Democrats and media lie. That should take us to near the position where the media can't drive the Bush approval rating below 50 percent. They had been able to drive it down to 47 or 48 percent.
IN the 1970s they could drive a president down to 36 percent. In the 1950s they could drive it down to 33 percent.
When the media can't destroy a Republican we will have reached a point where a liberal democrat can't be elected President. And the Republicans will hold the house for a generation and never lose the senate for more than two years.
The media and Democratic screw up on Iraq is far more costly to the media and Democrats than it first appears.