I agree, however, Bush took this kind of thing daily from the media and others in the military and handled it with grace and poise - He said nothing. If the media treated Obama like they did Bush he would have been impeached by now.
Bush was presumed guilty by the public in his total silence in the face of all the attacks. It was not “grace and poise.”
Bush served, politically, as a weak punching bag for a bunch of bullies because he and/or Rove felt uncomfortable with political operations and conflict about the war or anything outside the election cycle. It is a weakness for a president to hide in his closet in the face of such a public storm like the Left/Muslims whipped up against Bush.