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  • Bush's father complains of news media "hostility" (accused news media of "personal animosity")

    01/26/2007 10:22:54 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 47 replies · 1,296+ views
    Reuters ^ | 1/26/07 | Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so unrelenting he sometimes talked back to his television set. "It's one thing to have an adversarial ... relationship -- hard-hitting journalism -- it's another when the journalists' rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity," former President George Bush said. The elder Bush, the 41st U.S. president, had a relatively collegial relationship with the press but things turned sour during his losing 1992 re-election campaign. He got...