Posted on 12/02/2008 11:37:36 AM PST by Postman
"Fox News journalist Chris Wallace on Monday evening defended President Bush against criticism by Hollywood filmmaker Ron Howard that the president has abused his office in a way similar to President Richard Nixon..."
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He was raised in Hollywood (his dad and brother are also actors) and the belief system there is clearly pernicious.
For all of Bush’s mistakes, he is an exceptionally honest and honorable man, and has not abused his office. Period.
Certainly not in any way his critics on the left claim endlessly.
He has irritated me mightily, but the things he has done to irritate me are not the things Hollywood holds against him. What they hold against him are fantasy crimes that never happened. They never happened. I have never seen the kind of self-delusion in my life that I have seen over the last two decades, first with Clinton and then with Bush. And perhaps I should add, we are now seeing with Obama.
There is a stubborn unwillingness to live in the actual real world that marks a whole class of Americans, and the result is that half of America is living a fictional history that exists and transpires only within their collective minds. That would be bad enough, but the worst of the fantasists happen also to be the ones who publish and broadcast and film, so that their fictional parallel history becomes the recorded history. What really happened, what really transpired will be lost in the shuffle and as we shuffle off of this mortal coil there will be no one left to tell what really happened. And long before that, no one who will believe us in any case.
Opie’s been hanging around Meathead too long.
Dopey Opie, go back to Mayberry. You are an ignorant jerk.
Come think of it I bet John Wayne is rolling in his grave was he the first dude that gave him first movie part in the Shootist that Duke last film
I THINK SO it was ON AMC TV other day
Other Opieate Idiocy aside, Nixon’s abuses pale in comparison to the REAL pros like Clinton, Kennedy and Johnson...
“Imperial Presidency”. I do hope Mr. Howard will monitor the deeds of all presidents within his lifetime with the same fervor and through the same lens as he viewed the G.W. Bush’s presidency. While I have disagreed with some of the President’s policies and found his inability to “sell” what had to be done during our attempt to quell violence in other areas of the world to the American public at the least frustrating, I do not believe he acted alone or without counsel, nor do I believe he served his terms without pressure from extremely powerful politicians and captains of industry.
Realizing one cannot be an expert in every area, one relies on advice and experience of others. In the end, the decision rests with the President. If it’s right, he/she’s a hero. If it isn’t, he/she’s a villain. Neither is the correct lens through which to view the man or woman. Mr. Howard really must see things from a wider lens.
You didn’t mention the pardons, renting out the Lincoln Bedroom, selling plots at Arlington National, using the WH as a springboard into a $$$ making lecture circuit, getting/holding/lying about the possession of FBI files, chumming it up with avowed enemies of the US to sell (I said SELL) national defense secrets to them, stuffing their pockets with money (went into the WH stone broke without even a home of their own and parlayed the Presidency into $$$$$), ‘persuaded’ institutes of higher ‘education’ to basically HAND their daughter a degree, etc.... tell me where to stop!!!!
Auditing the critics, smearing those who helped in investigations, lying about staff to fire the travel office, blaming OKC on talk radio, wasting FBI resources on investigation a non-rash of “racist” church fires (while Al Qaeda was training for 9-11 in America).
Ron and especially his brother Clint (http://www.nndb.com/people/628/000025553/) both resemble Henry Waxman, and their politics are similar.
Maybe DOpie thought it was imperial because Bush has the same last name as his dad who also was a president.
Maybe the Clinton oligarchy doesn’t bother him even though it is unconstitutional for Hillary to be in this cabinet.
Pay no attention to what Robert Dallek writes. He’s another Democrat suck-up historian in the vein of Doris Kearns Goodwin. I read his bio of LBJ. It wasn’t worth the tree’s dying to print it.
Such is the ‘Progressives’ narrative of ‘Utopian Perfection’.
Reality will bite them in the ass!
Not another dime from me to Mr. Howard. Nor from my wife. Or my five kids. Or my 11 grandchildren (when they’re old enough to actually have money, anyway).
Clinton did a LOT worse than Nixon, a lot. The same thing and got away with it in fact. Talk about pure political self-preservation while ENDANGERING this country through his arrogant womanizing if an enemy of this country had chosen to blackmail him, and come to think of it, how do we know they didn’t? You may be sure we’d never be told. Clinton would dearly love for those Americans who do not respect him to respect him, and, ironically, those who do respect him he probably does not truly care about thinking well of him. - The Senate Republicans let us down.
Andy, sorry to tell you this, but your son makes Gomer look like like Einstein?
And if you remember, years before this Lewinsky crap happened, someone “caught” an IRS agent perusing the files of hundreds of Hollyweird people. That was a shot across the bow - play ball or be dragged across the coals.
Wallace needs to be tabbed to replace Brit.
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