If you read the daily FR thread "One Day In the Life" you would know that most weeks Pres. Bush gave 2 or 3 speeches away from the White House, had a press availablility with 2-4 foreign heads of state and had 2-4 photo ops with sports teams, community leaders, etc. The press and C-Span simply failed to cover most of them. If, however, he made a slight grammar or pronounciation error, they found time to play it over and over.
After 8 summers of his delightful T-ball games on the WH lawn, a conservative friend of mine did not even know about them.