[maica]

Bush is in the bully pulpit to drive the news the way he desire.
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If he would only use it more frequently!

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Serious question - how many speeches are you aware of that President Bush gave this week? I'm sure you know that "MSM" does NOT want to help President Bush to use his bully pulpit, so I wonder how much of his effort this past week made it to your knowledge (unless you already know his schedule from reading FR.)

I would love to do a poll on how many speeches he gives vs how many public appearances people believe he has.

I had heard that he was speaking somewhere on [last] Friday
wanted to set my VCR and went to the Whitehouse website; no help
went to Scott McClellan's press briefing which I read as reporting that Bush was going to Chicago on Thursday. I knew that was wrong!
I called the White House switchboard, to be told that they could not give out the info about the President's whereabouts! Okay.

CSPAN was not helpful.

And so it goes - the media really helps keep him a stealth president, as much as they can.

[p23185]

And so it goes - the media really helps keep him a stealth president, as much as they can.

You are so right - it is going to be an uphill battle going into '06 midterm because the MSM is going to do everything to beat down the Republicans and throw 100% of their support to the RATs, even if it means running LIES night and day. They have already started with their bogus polling results.

[snugs]

Very true virtually everyday he gives a speech but how often is it reported. Sometimes it is relayed live on the White House Website but not always, though the transcripts are there.

Here are the January ones so far as you can see he has made a speech as I mentioned virtually everyday.

January 2006

I personally do not like the word bully pulpit either it conquers up the wrong picture IMHO.

[anita]

Another misconception spread by the media, even republicans believe - Bush is a bad communicator.

Is Bush really a bad communicator? Interesting article by Jay Nordlinger, NR editor.(Read it in full)

George W. Bush is an interesting mixture: He is a Texan and an Easterner; he is Establishment and counter-Establishment; he is fancy and folksy; he is forceful and jocular; he is presidential and everyday.

His formal speeches tend to be elegant, polished affairs, composed by top-notch speechwriters (about whom, more later). But he does well enough on his own: whether winging it before an audience or responding to reporters. When he is most purely himself, he is blunt, unfussy, a little salty — Trumanesque.

He was asked about the status of Osama bin Laden. "He may be alive," the president said. "If he is, we'll get him. If he's not, we got him." Speechwriters could labor for weeks and not come up with anything better.

[samantha]

All of what you say is true about the Media holding back any info but bad on President Bush. What would be a lovely trick to play on the Media creeps would be to come back from one of his Mountain Bike rides with at least 10 bandages all over various body parts. Then when the The creeps hysterically race to interview him about it trying to make him look stupid he rips off the bandages and says "Surprise, I am not injured at all, now lets talk about my plan to ...." (fill in the blank). He will have their undivided attention long enough for them to look stupid(stoo-pid) and for him to get off some good talking points before they realize that he just handed them their lazy, liberal a$$es on a platter. He can do this once a week til the end of his term because since he is a daredevil they will never know when it is true and the bandages covering up real injuries. After each interview where he snookers them he should walk away laughing, and really hurt their worthless so-called pride.