The Two Faces of George W. (gag alert)

Newsweek ^ | 7/10/2002 | Martha Brant

[Utah Girl]

For Bush, the business world is full of mostly good people whose handshake should be enough to close a deal. Like in Kennebunkport, raw competition is left on the golf course. When Bush was in Midland, Texas, in the 1970s, much of the oil business was also conducted on faith. Who needed rules and regulations when you had trust between friends? Bush?s message to CEOs shows he believes in people over government to regulate excess. It also reveals that, to him, business really is an elite club. Despite the image he likes to project of a scrappy wildcatter, Bush always has been a member of the Northeast establishment. Much of the money invested in Midland, after all, came from Wall Street.

[ned]

Another cheap media trick!!

I smell politics in the air this year!

[Utah Girl]

Yep, I'm reading Newsweek online, every article is bashing President Bush. It is nauseating...

[OldFriend]

How pathetic, but then it is Newsweak!

[Sci Fi Guy]

Yep, I'm reading Newsweek online, every article is bashing President Bush. It is nauseating...

Looks like the rats are worried about Nov's election.

[Wait4Truth]

Wow! Martha Brandt used to be fair to President Bush - not FOR him, but fair. She's gone to the other side. From all that I have been listening to and reading these past weeks, I am filled with vitriol towards the RATS and the media. The media KNOWS that President Bush is innocent regarding Harken, for example. David Gregory was on with Imus yesterday morning and Imus shot down David's story. David just carried on like Imus hadn't said anything. There is total herd-mentality going on in the media. They get the RAT talking points in the morning and they never stray from it - no matter what the facts are. I have to believe that the Lord has a plan here - otherwise, I'll go nuts.

[Lee_Atwater]

This is especially inflammatory, even for Newsweak!

[Utah Girl]

This article is mild, just wait till I post Howie Fineman's slobbering lovefest to John McCain and Eleanor Clift's take on the President's speech yesterday. Truly disgusting...

[TADSLOS]

I've read enough without giving a hit to Newsweek. I'm guessing here, but I'll bet Clinton's mom never raised her voice with billy boy when he put his feet on the table. That would probably explain a lot, if true.

I'd rather have a man who has his roots in Texas, a strong set of parents who stay married to one another and has demonstrated success as an ethical businessman anyday than a boy in a man's body who spent his whole adult life on the public dole, and whose morals and ethics are founded on chasing skirts in the back woods of Arkansas, like his absentee daddy.

[Sci Fi Guy]

Is George W. Bush an Eastern establishment businessman or a Texas populist whose gonna kick some corporate butt

How could a Texas Oilman ever be considered An Easterner??? I would say that the writer has W confused with his father, but the father also made his fortune in Texas.

[Lee_Atwater]

...David just carried on like Imus hadn't said anything
That is indicitive of David Gregory's inability to formulate an original thought.

I have to believe that the Lord has a plan here
I sure hope so.

[ThinkDifferent]

The president goes from his moneyed New England pose to Texas populist

I've found that any article containing the word "moneyed" is virtually certain to be left-wing drivel, and this is no exception. And it really is a pitiful; there's no argument of any substance, aside from that Bush is rich and therefore evil.

[Notforprophet]

We're going to see more of this type of trash talking the POTUS. Someone has seen the poll numbers, and didn't like them at all. The word is out..., "Operation Diminish Dubya" is in full swing.

[hundredbagger]

Newsweek has always slanted to the left, while Time tries the centrist balancing act, just more of the same elitist BS


hb

[Slyfox]

Go ahead, pick a face.

[Vidalia]

Nuff Said?

[Deb]

David Gregory's report on Bush and Harkin today was one of the worst I've ever heard from a mainstream network. He actually said, "The SEC looked into the Bush-Harkin connection at the same time Bush's father was president, and decided to do nothing" (wink-wink, get it?).

There needs to be a campaign started to dump Gregory. He obviously hates this president and can't be objective. His disgusting "question" to Bush at the press conference in France proved that.

[Wait4Truth]

I used to consider David Gregory a basically fair reporter but not anymore. What he said to Imus was that GW had sold his stock immediately before the company stock prices went down. Imus said, "Well, David - it wasn't IMMEDIATELY before...it was 3 MONTHS before." David said, "Yeah, well..." and then he went on skewering the President. What is going on in the media is just beyond belief. I really fear what they will drop on President Bush in late October, 2004. We really need to start a battle plan here. We are the warriors and we can't let President Bush down.

[Wait4Truth]

What about Senators Kerry, Corzine, Kohl, etc? All multi-millionaire RATS...nobody in the media ever calls them "moneyed" or ties their money to being somehow evil.

[Wait4Truth]

Yes, I heard him today, too. I have read that it was clinton that requested that his SEC reopen the investigation of GW and that his SEC found nothing in 1993. Maybe PhiKapMom can verify this or not.