Why would anyone EVER talk to BO, let alone weekly?
Bush is the POTUS and leader of the free world. He has been conducting a war with two hot battle fronts against an enemy of the free world along with the many issues of running this country and battling the enemy within.
He did not have time to hang out and have fireside chats.
IIRC, his surrogates did appear on the various "news" programs, until those appearances turned out to be nothing more than ambushes to attack them. Where were you? Where were the American people that KNEW the truth? Why did no one speak out? Why were they not fighting to correct the misinformation?
From where I sit, most of them joined the choir, instead of forming their own band to drown them out.