Posted on 07/08/2006 11:54:06 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
July 8, 2006
Next time you hear liberals talk about mean-spirited Republicans, you might want to remind them of the cold-water dousing the MSM gave the 60 candles on the president's birthday cake.
First there was WaPo's Dana Milbank - that paragon of objective journalism - who on Countdown twisted W's good-natured gesture of inviting onto the podium press people who shared the same birthday into a metaphor of presidential lonelieness and isolation. Milbank also used the occasion to allude to Bush's allegedly dissolute youth. And for good measure, the 'reporter' even managed to revive allegations regarding Bush's National Guard service. How old are you now, Dana?
Today it was the Los Angeles Times' turn, spewing an ill-tempered editorial to commemorate W's 60th. 'The president who would not grow up' was the headline. You could imagine where this one was heading, and you'd have been right:
The LAT seemed downright peeved that people were paying so much attention to the occasion: "why was there so much fascination with George W. Bush's attainment of three-score years?" it demanded to know.
In a particularly condescending swerve, the editorial went on to impugn the president's intelligence. The Times smirked over the 'simple math problems' and easy tasks such as counting people going in and out of a house posed by a 'Brain Age' game that Nintendo had presented as a present.
The Times predictably invoked the president's 'frat boy' persona and, stamping its feet, demanded to know whether that will change "now that President Bush has embarked on his seventh decade."
The Times' editorialist should be careful. They say chronic distemper can prematurely age a person.
Here's a link to the LA Times editorial:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-bush8jul08,0,3587583.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
Mean-spirited LA Times ping to Today Show list.
Who cares - nobody reads the LA Times anymore.
If the media says all these nasty things about Bush, then he must be doing something right. I don't think there is any hope that his successor will be able to fill those shoes.
I wouldn't say 'nobody.' The LA Times continues to have a daily circulation of about 800,000, and is surely read online by many more people.
Only mindless liberals and socialists read their daily dose of anti-Americanism in the pinko LAT anyway...my dog won't even pee on it...
This not only shows the mean-spiritedness of the left, it also shows their pettiness.
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Years ago, Michael Kinsley quipped that Al Gore was an old person's idea of a young person. Bush's brashness and playfulness — what critics call his "frat boy" persona — have put him closer to a young person's idea of a young person. The question is whether that will change now that the "frat boy" has embarked on his seventh decade.
Speaking for myself as a "frat boy" as much as for the President--gosh, I devoutly hope not. I've settled down from my undergrad days, to be sure--and that's a good thing--but may God save me from ever being a boring old fart. Like Al.
(By the way, if the Times editors are lurking, that's "fraternity boy" to you, buckos.)
Bush's birthday is July 8? So is mine!! ok, coincidence :-)
All these hack writers vowed as young idealists, that they'd just take the newspaper jobs while they wrote their great American novel or subsidize the other great and meaningful work they envisioned for themselves.
They all swore that if they were still hack writers with those newspapers at the age of 50 or 60 or whatever age they are now, that they'd blow their frigging brains out. It's time to pull the trigger people.
It's not George Bush's fault you're still working at those frigging newspapers. Don't take your resentment and bitterness out on everybody else. Die honorably; take the whole newsroom with you.
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| What non-partisan or "normal" person can possibly read this article or better yet the one by Milbanks and not wonder what in the world are these people getting at and why? Under no circumstance can I see this pettiness effecting anyone to the point that they think George Bush is a lonely man or that staying in shape, looking and acting young at 60 is a bad thing. |
Actually it was the 6th. Guess it took the Times a couple extra days to come up with something sufficiently nasty ;-)
They periodically promote "$1.00 a week" in our area to try and expand their circulation....within the area of my daily walk I see exactly ONE house in the hundred or so homes I pass with a copy in the driveway.
What I found extremely aggravating besides the normal aggravation is that American MSM totally ignored the prez b-day and it was the Canadian press that acknowledged his birthday and wished him well. Saw that during a press conference a couple of days ago. I was embarrassed, as an American, that the American media was so lacking, insensitive and rude.
You think THIS is bad, Beltway Boys was down around the level of this editorial...but, it was BOTH "BOYZ"...and said out loud, on a show that could have had retakes..
IOW..they meant all of the Bush bashing that went on!!
Is that how these people want to live - so consumed with hatred? They'd better get some psychological help; otherwise they will just wither away, like Roger Chillingsworth.
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