Press Largely Ignored Hostile Protester Rhetoric Towards Bush

[Veritas]

As Fox News's Bill Sammon pointed out Wednesday, when former President Bush was greeted by hostile protesters on a fund raising trip to Portland, Oregon, in August 2002, the news media didn't bother sharing with the public some of the truly incendiary signs in the crowd or the vulgar behavior of the attendees.




LINK (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/13/press-largely-ignored-hostile-rhetoric-directed-bush)


The hypocrisy is deafening. JMO :thumbdown:

[TBIBeg]

LINK (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/13/press-largely-ignored-hostile-rhetoric-directed-bush)


The hypocrisy is deafening. JMO :thumbdown:

Great Link!

[History Buff]

I also recall a movie being made about his assasination that won an award.

[Lady_Jean_La]

LINK (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/13/press-largely-ignored-hostile-rhetoric-directed-bush)


The hypocrisy is deafening. JMO :thumbdown:

If President Bush was a minority would things have been different?

[lunchlady]

Personally I would have welcomed more coverage of any public protest during the Bush administration. I was dismayed about how little there was.

[Lady_Jean_La]

He is a minority, not many president's have been so widely disliked by the world or left office with a 27% approval rating.
Sounds very hostile. imo

[ABC]

Yes, and as an American citizen, my main concern is that the French people love MY President. :rolleyes: Who cares whether I lose my constitutional rights and my children are forced into economic slavery to maintain the lavish lifestyles of the ruling class....the real question is whether the rest of the world finds our current feckless leader dreammmmmy or not.

:thumbdown:
And our new Best Friends, some of whom were shown burning American flags after 9/11 and celebrating in the streets.

[theal3]

Personally I would have welcomed more coverage of any public protest during the Bush administration. I was dismayed about how little there was.

Bush had it very under control and gated or caged off: areas away from the actual event, and lots of screening.... there were glimpses of it, and more to see on the internet. Any I saw was reported as fringe lefties hippie types-- that was the images. To each his own I suppose. Protests overseas was shown.

Seems like more now as it's a more open forum.....

[lunchlady]

Bush had it very under control and gated or caged off: areas away from the actual event, and lots of screening.... there were glimpses of it, and more to see on the internet. Any I saw was reported as fringe lefties hippie types-- that was the images. To each his own I suppose. Protests overseas was shown.

Seems like more now as it's a more open forum.....

Yes, I remember that. There were these little fenced off areas for protesters, a good ways off from the places where Bush was speaking and where the press were corralled. I remember seeing a lot of armed policemen "guarding" them also.
The press was put on a starvation diet for contact with Bush, especially after some of the more embarrassing Bushisms. I stopped relying on TV news for any real news, and started questioning the newspapers more too.
I thought the press was really soft on Bushco, apparently because they too didn't want to seem UnAmerican and Not in Support of the Troops during the Terrorist Emergency and WarTime. The post 9/11 frame of mind certainly contributed to that.
This is one of the reasons I scoff at the idea of the MSM and the LibMediaConspiracy and how they are responsible for Obama winning or Palin looking bad. The motivations of the press aren't simply partisan politics, although I have noticed that more and more print media sources are owned by conservative-headed corporations.

I'm ambivalent about the town meetings. I appreciate the gesture of trying to be open and informative, but the meetings are turning into a counterproductive national hate rally. And I don't think Obama should be showing up in places where the Secret Service can't protect him completely.

[February]

I think we should just let go of the past and focus on the future.
It won't do us any good to keep rehashing the errors of the bush administration or hope for errors of the Obama administration.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we could focus on the country as a whole and unify for once? Just once.