[MNJohnnie]

Right, JUST tune out all facts about how politically corrupt the News media has been. How selective their coverage. NO, some Professor in 1974 told you the President has a “bully pulpit”. So since the Buchannaite Right has their slogan to spew forth day in and day out, they simply don’t need to be bothered with simply factual reality. After all, they don’t need no stinkin’ facts, they have a dogma!

Question for you. HOW does the President’s “Bully Pulpit” work

That right. He has to rely on the “Journalists” to report his message to the people. He has to rely on THEIR medium.

My how sad, yet another 100%er slogan just got shattered on the rocks of cold hard political reality.

[snugs]

The Bully pulpit is a stupid term IMHO no President or Prime Minister truly has this it is down to the news media to cover it.

They can give speech after speech but if only the bits are shown that the media want to show that fit their agenda then it has no effect if people are not willing to actually make an effort to read the entire speech or actually know where it would be found, how many of the average Americans are aware of what is published on the White House website. Sometimes I wonder how many on this board are in fact aware what published on that website.

In a way Congress has the advantage here as like the British Parliament the debates are shown in full.

Many people in Britain would be aware that transcript of parliament are published (Hansard) but would they be aware or know where to go to see the PM’s speech at a local college or factory. I am sure the same applies in the US as well.

[kabar]

I graduated college in 1965.

So since the Buchannaite Right has their slogan to spew forth day in and day out, they simply don’t need to be bothered with simply factual reality. After all, they don’t need no stinkin’ facts, they have a dogma!

Where are your facts? If you think that the President of the US is "just ONE guy," you are the one not dealing with reality..

Question for you. HOW does the President’s “Bully Pulpit” work That right. He has to rely on the “Journalists” to report his message to the people. He has to rely on THEIR medium.

We have been over this ground many times before. The President can address the nation on primetime without any media filters. He does hold televised press conferences, which can be seen in their entirety. He does do a weekly radio address. He can offer the networks exclusive interviews and stipulate the terms, e.g., unedited, amount of time, etc. He is far from powerless.

You make it sound like the MSM is running this country. They are not. If that were the case, Bush would never have been elected--twice.

That's "cold hard political reality."