Yes, why can't HW take a cue from Jimmy Carter?How could you leave out X42/rapist/perjurer/sociopath?
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Posted on 08/25/2006 5:20:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
August 25, 2006 - 08:00
Remember George H.W. Bush? The one who was derided by the MSM for his lack of toughness? The man Newsweek put on its cover with the sneering headline "Fighting the Wimp Factor"?
Scratch all that. As per this morning's Today show, it turns out H.W. wasn't a wimp at all. Not only was he a 'diplomat', above all he was someone who knew how to successfully fight a war in Iraq.
What caused Today to catch a bad case of SORS: Sudden-Onset Revisionism Syndrome? It's that old truism at work: the MSM is willing to praise a Republican who is out of power . . . for purposes of bashing one still in office.
Today used the occasion of W's visit to his father's home in Kennebunkport this weekend to raise the question "Like Father Not Like Son?" Narrating the segment, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell set the tone with this opening shot: "both went to war but with very different results." And you know what she's talking about!
Mitchell then played a clip of former senator and Bush 41 loyalist Alan Simpson, who has spent his recent years at Harvard's Kennedy School. Simpson opined that Bush the Elder "was a diplomat, ready to talk to anyone." Simpson sniffed that in contrast, W has "never been engaged in the process of professional diplomacy."
Mitchell then cited unidentified "friends" who say "the father built coalitions, negotiated with his enemies, the son, more striver and Texas cowboy, likes to go it alone."
Next, who better to offer a personality portrait of W than that noted non-partisan psychoanalyst, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times: "W is determined to be all-Texas, to be really tough and that led him into this really tough foreign policy where everything is black and white."
Mitchell seemed to suggest that vengeance played a role in W's decision to invade Iraq, playing a clip of the president saying of Saddam "this is a guy that tried to kill my dad."
Mitchell then implied that - if only HW could speak out - he would oppose the Iraq war. She said that "at least publicly the father won't criticize the son's Iraq policy but he's known to agonize over it."
Today left little doubt that it prefers Old School Bush to the Bush the Latter. It was a tough morning for W. But he can take solace in knowing that in times to come the MSM will surely cast him too in a glowing light - for purposes of bashing a future Republican occupant of the White House.
Today Show/NewsBusters wimp-factor ping.
Those damn ex-presidents who keep their mouth shut.
LOL. Yes, why can't HW take a cue from Jimmy Carter?
LOL Love it!
Thanks! I originally had it as Sudden Revision Onset Syndrome, but then realized that if I flipped the second and third words it would create a nice little acronym ;-)
Fantastic line . . I just might use it.
Be my guest - with proper citation of course. We wouldn't want you to go Joe Biden on us!
I don't know which was worse, Mitchell's hit piece, or Gnat Liar's (NBC's Pink Prancing Pony)slop with the fiction novelist.
Yes, why can't HW take a cue from Jimmy Carter?How could you leave out X42/rapist/perjurer/sociopath?
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Incredible that a man who was the youngest pilot in the USN in WWII, and was shot down at sea, had to fight the 'wimp factor' against a draft dodger. Fortunately the 1992 election was about the last hurrah of the MSM!
Saddam's attempt on George H.W. Bush's life came long AFTER the elder Bush had left office. It was just a low-life street-thug thing on Saddam's part. Like the attack on Gerald Ford by some of Charles Manson's posse.
Saddam was removed because of so much of his outlaw activity in a number of situations, not simply because he made an attempt on Bush-41. That consideration did not even come up as part of the current trial before Iraqi judges.
Give me the cowboy. Don't want Bush 41 gum flapping.
She can read his mind????
SORS is good, but this little ditty right after it is very good, too--pithy, you might say.
They saw the pics of 41 & 43 yesterday in Kennebunkport and they just could not let them have a happy, peaceful moment.
Meanwhile Cindy Sheehan's merry band of losers are still stuck in that ditch in Crawford, protesting an empty house. LOL
Great name, but who actually invented it John Kerry or Al Gore?
What about Clinton 42: The Rapist?
I have been in this game too long. I don't like him. I like his dad is an old political trick. I don't like him. I like his brother, I can't stand him. Seen this , done that. If bush's father was president, they would love George, hate his father. If his brother was president same , same .The least they could do is think of something new, of course all they threw at George is the kitchen stove. I have never seen a president stand so tall while turning the other cheek at his enemies. George W. Bush is an example of a great man. Holding his own convictions, holding his own religious standings and doing the best he can in spite of the democrats and the turn coats in his own party to keep America safe. In spite of the idiot comments and the daily show slime, the new york slimes and liberals who bow to the alter of George Soros , our president stands tall. There is an old saying if you are right , you may have to stand alone, if you are right you may get stoned. But remember right is what you stand for. President Bush is a great man, I am lucky to see one in my life time!
I couldn't believe my eyes! Maureen Dowd as NBC Today Show what??? analyst? expert? The only upside is imagining how many viewers across the country were scratching their heads wondering who the heck she was.
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