Posted on 07/14/2006 1:01:46 PM PDT by PDR
Quote: "How convenient for Mr. Pincus to decide that now is the time to do this. I'm sure it wasn't even an issue while Clinton was in office and used PR solely to address the issues of the day."
How pathetic that Mr. Pincus can't already see that this is exactly what the MSM does. Where are the stories about the positive developments in Iraq? Where are the stories about the booming economy? Mr. Pincus, you have your head up your arshish.
And look how his Presidency turned out compared a POTUS who was always reported to be so involved and hands on, Jimmy "Thanks for Iran You Peanut-Brained Idiot" Carter.
From what trends I have seen over the last few years, it seems the "courage" you are demanding is the courage to tell bald-faced lies to the American public to counter the growing power of the conservative media.
The biggest problem Bush has is the fact that his communications to the public at large has to be filtered through newspapers and broadcasters who are almost unanimously aligned with his political enemies.
A key political or philosophical argument gets stripped away, and all the public gets is half a minute of visual with the reporter telling you what the president supposedly said. With that kind of stranglehold on communications, the president has been hamstrung, and has been forced to find other means of getting his message out, and mostly failing.
Pincus' complaint is that their near-monopoly isn't absolute. He is calling on his journalistic brothers to have the courage to completely freeze out any communications they disagree with.
What a total pile of crybaby tripe.
Governing is leading and leading is educating. It says something about those being educated that they need a keyword cheat sheet behind the president in order to understand his message. It doesn't say anything about the president or his message.
this from a fella who pushed the Plame non-story for, what , three years and still probably doesn't know it blew up in his face.
Is this clown related to Rather?
Right now, many of the Republicans I know actually think that they will win the next elections because, "as any fool can see, the Democrats are preposterous."
Apparently they were out of the country for the Gore and Kerry near misses.
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