Posted on 03/27/2003 12:13:17 PM PST by AL Perrin
I'm confident the American people understand that when it comes to our security, if we need to act, we will act, and we really don't need United Nations approval to do so. I want to work -- I want the United Nations to be effective. It's important for it to be a robust, capable body. It's important for it's words to mean what they say, and as we head into the 21st century, Mark, when it comes to our security, we really don't need anybody's permission. - George W Bush, March 6, 2003
It was with a fair amount of déjà vu then today that I witnessed the same sort of bristling open press hostility during President Bush’s joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. With his opening remarks, President Bush graciously paid Prime Minister Blair a series of personal compliments, calling him “courageous,” and “a good friend.” The press was dead silent. Not one reporter applauded, or even smiled, or nodded their head at this show of wartime coalition solidarity. And then came the rude, disapprovingly negative hostile questions.
There has been much discussion over the last few years over bias in the mainstream press. Rarely are specific examples either pro, or con ever presented. But, this rude silence, and grilling by the press corps audience of a President of The United States and a staunch British ally during a time of war is a prime example I think of their thundering bias, and anti-Bush liberal prejudice. Therefore, for them to pretend that all of this destructive, and anti-administration bias doesn’t affect their abilities to fairly report the facts – or for that matter to even tell the truth – is either naïveté, or downright dishonesty in the extreme.
And as such, they are in fact helping, Saddam Hussein’s brutal, oppressive, and terrorist regime continue to fight. In essence, they are encouraging the Iraqi propaganda machine to wage the war in the only arena that Saddam Hussein has any real chance of winning. He, and his cohorts know that they can’t possibly win against us with tanks, and planes, so they must fight us with images, negativity, and press manipulation, hoping that we – the American people – will ultimately quit.
So, it really makes you wonder about our own liberal mainstream press. Exactly whose side are they really on?
You don't really think they're on our side and that they're objective in their reporting ???
Exactly whose side are they really on?
They are on the side of anyone who is anti Bush and anti America.
In the personal context of the same concept:
I do believe that the Federal and State governments impingement upon our ability to be "ready and able" to attend to our "personal defense", is as deplorable as United Nations attempting to infringe on the right of the United States to its own "national defense".
I don't think that the press is universally anti-american, but definitely anti-bush. All democrats (including most reporters), are terrified that success in Iraq will guarantee Bush's re-election.
For me the bias of press was made manifest during the election of 1964. Press bias didn't start then either, I think it has always been with us. I recall a saying that goes; "People who like that sort of thing, tend to like that sort of thing". Journalists are essentially socialists and so; "tend to like that sort of thing.
What we are seeing from the press now is more anti- Bush, than pro-Hussein. It is sleeping with the enemy, nevertheless.
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