Posted on 02/21/2006 4:54:53 AM PST by Quilla
Well, Patsy gets it right this time...but I'm a bit confused: I always thought he was FOR the Inquisition, but he seems ambiguous about it here.
Sounds like he's still FOR it.
The President is playing this perfectly. By ignoring the press, he has caused a 14 day meltdown, gregory falling apart and forced to apologize, and all the talking heads stating that the press jumped the shark.
Yep, poor old Bush, no one told HIM he was a lame duck! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!
LLS
I'd prefer to call it "conservative" radio. Although this nut pretty much got it right this time, he is still a loose cannon with very little credibility.
Diagree. This press core stumping Plame, SCOTUS nominees, NASA, Iraq, and an accidental shooting is not playing with the public.
Everything Bill Plante and Dave Gregory says is now suspect.
When your credibility is diminished, so is your power.
This is true.
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The old established/liberal/socialist media is America's most ruthless, relentless, and destructive enemy.
He makes a good point here, but I think that more and more people every year see the white house press corp for what they are and pay them no mind, which necessarily limits their influence more and more year by year. I thing pretty soon the white house will be able to deny half of the old guard access and instead invite in that many more reporters with brains.
Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media."
The adversarial press is light years more adversarial to GOP Presidents than to any Dem. It's mildly interesting watching lions of the press corp claim neutrality and point to instances where they gave pinprick heck to Dems. They actually believe it. When a similar circumstance comes up in future, I expect these individuals will think hard (for a microsecond) but then go with their instincts. That's the thing: they are emotionally driven. They will suddenly rediscover the need for the press to express national sympathy, not wage bloodsport.
The reason this titanic hypocrisy can exist in folks who understand intellectual honesty is simply the incredible elasticity built into the enterprise of discursive logic.
you are naive on this or guilty of wishful thinking. Infomred people most probably respond the way you describe, but most voters are not informed. It is an attriton thing. Read Dan Henninger in last Friday's WSJ. go to opinonjournal.com and search for it there.
The whole deal was almost worth it to see that twit Gregory whine on Meet the Press Sunday. I wrote a nice, respectful and short letter to NBC News last week advising them that he was in dire need of reassignment, and fantasized that Gregory's mea culpas were in reponse to my email...
Bush taking advice from Pat Buchanan would be like Snow White accepting the poisoned apple.
He is right that the mainstream press is an adversary, and I think this is precisely why it was handled as it was - the MSM went into hysterical orbit, but the battle was on Cheney's terms, not theirs, and they ended up looking like fools by hyping a non-story.
Furthermore, it made them look as inept as they are: if they had really been paying attention, they surely would have noticed ambulances and cars leaving the ranch, and possibly even the police arriving (since it was reported to teh police right after it happened). But instead they were sitting around their hotel rooms waiting for the subject of their reports to come groveling to them with information. Is that what their publications pay them for? I doubt it.
Frankly, I think this was handled just fine and it exploded right in the face of the MSM and squirted ink in their eye.
OK, but how do you explain the White House "aides" sniping at Cheney? That can't be part of the plan, can it?
Dave Gregory just needs a good old fashioned a$$-whoopin'. The kind that he got repeatedly in high school.
Maybe not a fantasy.
Dan Henninger in last Friday's WSJ. go to opinonjournal.com and search for it there
Thanks, read it.
This week long unjustified tantrum by these guys will diminish their stature and their credibility with a majority.
This type of prose is what makes Pat a great writer.
Baseball bats!
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