AP’s final dig at President Bush
President Bush delivered his farewell address this evening. He leaves a mixed legacy. I give him credit where it is due and blame where it is due. But one thing is unadulterated: The pure contempt of the man from the MSM.
Here’s how the Associated Press headlined its dispatch about the speech:
Bush address includes laundry list of back patting
In his farewell address to the nation, President George W. Bush is acknowledging that many of his decisions are unpopular with the American people. But he says there can be no debate about the results.
Indeed, a text of the speech comes with a laundry list of what Bush says are successes.
And there you have it: One final, BDS-tinged kiss-off masquerading as news.
Yes, I think I hear cheering from the AP newsroom, too.
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Screw the “AP’ and their train loads of “C” average journalist majors. That gaggle of dimwits is void of any credibility.
This just gets so tiresome. Especially when you just know we are in for at least four years of glowing reports, media cheerleading and straight up covering for “the One”.
I don’t think it’s the last – there’s still 4 days to go before the coronation of The One.
Children being childish.
A-hole Press.
Reports of MSM celebrations.
Doug Neidermeyer: And most recently of all, a “Roman Toga Party” was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.
Spineless, small people. I pity the fools at the “Associated with Terrorist Press”. Losers, one and all.
Final dig? FINAL? Michelle… Puhleeeeeze. They’ll be digging for years at Bush and Palin. They’ll forget McCain… Palin was a threat.
Which is why you can wipe your arse with any story featuring an AP byline.
They are waiting for the big O to show up.
Utterly classless.
I have my own perspective on the Bush years, and like you, Michelle, I give him credit and blame where it is deserved. It’s all you can do with any politician, including the anointed one, and we must be wary of turning into the hate-filled Bush-bashers of the last eight years. Oppose on principle and policy.
If nothing else, Bush is fundamentally a decent man. He did not deserve the raw deal he got from the press.
That’s the problem. The Press has a hard time with fundamentally decent people. They don’t understand them.
From the article:
I’ll give him 1 out of 3. I do not know anybody who thinks “No Child Left Behind” is an improvement and the drug benefit is socialism.
I have many disagreements with President Bush has done and said over the last 6 months, but he is still a man I wouldn’t mind going for a bike ride and consuming a couple of beers afterward. My biggest question for the BDS infected Associated (with terrorist) Press what in the world are you going to do once you no longer have GW and Dick Cheney to kick around anymore?
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
What will happen to the MSM if BHO proves to be a disaster? We have a nominated Secretary of the Treasurery who has not paid taxes, a Secretary of Commerce under Federal Investigation, a Secretary of State who has been bought by China, Saudi Arabia, and African dictators, and a President elect of questionable birth records. Just what the MSM wanted.
I will always despise Bush for not pardoning Ramos and Compean… but the AP piece is just plain juvenile.
Whatever happened to respecting the Office of the Presidency?
So I don’t suppose we should expect to see a going away pep rally like Clinton had 8 years ago. Does anyone else remember how Clinton couldn’t leave without trying to keep the attention on him even after Bush had been sworn in as president? And of course the media was there to cover it and overrode coverage of President Bush… well except for all of the protesters at the parade, which they eagerly showed.
MSM is going broke–along with others. I don’t think MSM understands our [my] absolute hatred of them. They undermined this administration daily, constantly and are still doing it.
Bush is no conservative but he is a decent man who did his best to protect this nation. And the results—we haven’t been attacked again. I wished he would have defended his administration vigorously and sold his actions and ideals to the people. He didn’t—and he put far too much faith in dealing with liberals.
I thank him and wish him and his family well.
BHO–well, we will have to see.
:hands Michelle a coffee
Try again sister!
Carter ring a bell? That dude has broken every unspoken rule about slamming a POTUS. Comes with the (D).
I believe that Bush is a decent, good and kind man. For all the things I didn’t agree with, none were malicious toward God or Country. (Can’t say the same about PEBO!)
The thing that drives me the nuttiest about Bush is his persistant refusal to point fingers when they need to be pointed, as in why our economy is now a disaster. Dodd, Fwank, Waters, and BO’s friend Raines, and well, all the Dems. He allows the MSM to get away with its revisionist history and cover-up of the Dems.
I cried at the end of the speech.
I love the map included for all those AP readers that would otherwise look towards the west coast. You know, the ones that would have voted for Dick Cheney in that recent poll claiming the he is the most disliked VP in history and yet a vast majority probably could not name three. They couldn’t say when the revolution occured or the civil war. An amazing number couldn’t tell you what year the Declaration of Independence was signed. Or tell you when the stock market imploded in 1929 or who was President then and when television was first broadcast. And most of them wouldn’t know that Joe Biden got the last three wrong IN ONE SENTENCE. But they do know how right they are in supporting Obama.
For the MSM, that will begin on the 20th….
Where is my FoxNews AP already?
Here is an awful thought.
Allmost of the msm are raising children to be like who?Another generation raising their replacements.
We’re screwed.
Rules are for losers.
“All Things Considered” on NPR was vicious this evening, and the commentary on the PBS “News Hour” (and the comments by Brooks after the speech) were also nasty.
Except for listening to some of Rush Limbaugh tomorrow, I think my radios and TV are going to be off until well after Tuesday.
I guess I missed GW saying that. I thought he said something to the context of “there can be no debate that at least I made the tough decision when they needed to be made.”
I know he said something like that. Give it to the AP for getting the words out of order and context.
When will the AP be filing for their Chapter 11?
I guess I missed GW saying that. I thought he said something to the context of “there can be no debate that at least I made the tough decision when they needed to be made.”
I believe that is almost exactly what he said. Is it any surprise that the AP doesn’t have a comment section after each story? I know, rhetorical.
James Otis #24
Have you ever watched Jaywalking on Leno?
Who cares what one POS says about another bigger POS. Both AP and Bush can go to hell and rot there for eternity
Yes and the years later we will find drool stains all over the press conference room beginning from the time when BO arrives, I predict…
Typical of MSM to continue bashing Bush, but they really show how low class they are when they throw Laura in there, too. I hope all their rags go broke. Bush is no Reagan, but I am very thankful he is my President.
I am beginning to fantasize about when the people who want to defend law and order and integrity, when the revolt starts, I would like to lead the people in charge of shutting down the media. My fantasies are starting to become violent and I believe that I need a time out for a while. What better time then during the coronation of our new royal to take a 2 week break from the rambling insanity of Obama nut sack licking boobs that is our Main Stream Media. I am going to watch reruns of Scrubs, eat sugary cereal and chill out. Happy Coronation everyone, see you in dos semanas.
You do all realize, don’t you, that the AP published a fraudulent story about Obama’s birth records, and most people seem to have accepted it as truth?
The AP headline was
The AP wanted people to read that headline and believe that the State of Hawaii had declared the COLB produced by the Obama campaign was genuine.
But that is NOT TRUE. The Hawaiian officials never said any such thing.
The AP story went on to say:
That, also, is NOT TRUE. The Hawaiian officials never said any such thing.
Those deceptions are based on the following truth:
The only thing Fukino and Onaka verified is that the original birth certificate is on file in Hawaii. They never claimed to have looked at the original birth certificate, they never said he was born in Hawaii, they never said “there’s no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii”, and they never verified that the COLB produced at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago was authentic.
The COLB produced at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago is a forgery and was only shown to a handful of people from the Annenberg Political Fact Check…an organization which has questionable ties to the former chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge…Barack Obama.
They are just exercising their lips and gums so they are set and ready to start hitting the kneepads when Zero gets in.
The really sad thing is that they actually think that people don’t notice. On the other hand given who is going to be sworn in perhaps they don’t….
Watching on how the media praises BO reminds me of how the Chinese press use to praise Mao and how the Soviet press praised Stalin and the rest of its leaders. the American press only has negative comments about Bush and only positive ones on BO. The trouble with Bush was he was too liberal on his spending and not liberal enough for the coastal elites. The fly over states he was not conservative enough and made enemies all over the place.
Agreed. This bailout crap sandwich is terrifying. But, can you imagine the muck we’d be in without the Bush Tax Cuts?
I think W is one of the finest men to serve as President. He is humble, compassionate and resolute. The love and respect he shows for the military men and women under his command is sincerely moving, and not a mere string of lip biting photo-ops like his predecessor.
Speaking of his predecessor,
compare the farewell speeches of Bush and Clinton.
‘Indeed’, AP, a text of Clinton’s 2001 speech comes with a ‘laundry list’ of what he ’says are successes’. Any man who serves us in that office is entitled to do the same. But AP slaps at President Bush for it.
Had Clinton been a (R) instead of a (D), every AP story about him would begin with “Impeached”.
OK that’s enough venting.
President Bush will be treated kinder by history than by the myopic moonbats at AP.Well, maybe not, as Hoover still gets more hatred for 1 year of recession than FDR gets for the 10+ years of depression in his term.
Its OK. All the libs are just jealous of Texas – and Bush was a Texan.
But even W himself has been in D.C too long. He’s starting to act like a girl. ‘Whaaa!!! I shouldnt have landed on the carrier, whaaa!! I shouldnt have said bring ‘em on’.’
Give me a break. Go find the nads again and quit sucking at the O’s teat.
Like that russian dude that is predicting the break-up of the USA into 6 regions, says — Texas will pown them all!!!
Apparently the AP reporters are too young to remember ole Slick’s farewell kissoff.
I can’t wait for that point in the future when even the left loons can no longer blame Bush for everything! I wonder how much the MSM is gonna like socialism when it hits them?
I thought about sticking to just the Weather Channel next week, but who knows, even they may get into the act. It is going to be Obamapalooza 24/7.
The sad thing is that I have to watch the Inaugeration for one of my classes and be prepared to discuss the “O’s” policies critically. I hope my prof’s ready….
I read the local paper, and for balance TH and MM. I’ll be ready to debate this, the sad thing is that my classmates didn’t realise that the Gitmo detainees were caught on the field of battle, and that America has treated these prisoners better that what the Geneva Convention states a country is supposed to do to combatants that are caught not being part of an organized military force.
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
The pure contempt
of the man fromfor the MSM.Fixed it for us!
It must get tiring, playing the victim all the time?
Disagree. A fundamentally decent man would not leave Ramos and Compean to rot in prison.
Taking a dig at the Press is fairly easy. How about talking about what Pres Bush said? There is a cliche, something about the messenger versus the message.
I suppose it serves a purpose to take the messenger to task vice the message.
Bush’s biggest public relations failure is that he expected the MSM to be fair with him.
Of course, he also expected the liberals to be fair with him and we know how well that turned out.
Well, I guess you (the collective you – the left, that is) would be the experts in being able to tell us, wouldn’t you?
What with all the complaining about the non-existent “loss of our civil rights”, the constant “Bush lied” mantra about the war and the run-up to the war (don’t try it Omu – check the facts – wmd’s were number 12 or 13 on a list of about 20 legitimate reasons to take Saddam Hussein out), and all the hand-wringing angst about firing a few prosecutors (when your boy Clinton basically fired them all), and on and on the list goes.
Playing the victim? Omu, you guys are the experts – so spare me your sanctimonius, holier-than-thou attitude.
What a tool.
The A(pple) P(icking) news outlet has proven its lack of journalistic integrity for a long time now. Each time I read an article, I check to see if it came from them and conclude that anything that follows is suspect.
I’m sure we’ll have BDS for a long time to come.
We’ll also have a lot of Palin-bashing for the foreseeable future because the libarals are afraid of her and what she stands for. What other candidate who lost an election is villified for so long afterward? Most are forgotten quickly by the MSM.
Well, we all know by now that the drive-by media sucks. The big question is, do they swallow?
OMU: You should feel right at home. Liberals live for victimhood. They can’t survive without keeping a class of people in that perpetual state. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black…
zyzzyg: When the MSM constantly slants their stories with particular bias against anything conservative, it is a natural inclination to suspect the messenger. If you trust what they say, you definitely have a lack of discernment and wisdom. Those characteristics are normally associated with a fool.
Yahoo posted this from the Time magazine.
Bush’s Closing Argument: Was Anybody Listening?
This is not the last dig. America will be digging out the Bush mess for years. Here’s a partial to-do list:
* Figure out what happened to the TARP money
* De-politicize the government
* Close the Guantanamo Bay prison
* Restore order to Afghanistan
* Withdraw from Iraq
* Restore confidence in the financial services industry
* – - – the list is long and depressing
Well earned.
LGM, I know you are clueless about the world outside of math but you do know who has been controling congress since 2006 right?
RIGHT??
So why don’t you stop doing so?
Last dig? They are STILL digging at Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan.
Even you are not that stupid lgm, liar perhaps.
Now that is one brilliant comment.
usa_usa – on what basis are they deserving of eternal damnation and you are not?
I’m not positive about this, but I swear, in the background on my TV, I could hear what sounded like the refrain from “The Wizard of OZ”… “DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD”… It was real faint, but I’m almost positive… Anyone else hear this???
Funny – I do exactly the same thing. Don’t check to see who wrote it but rather if it has AP after it.
If you think you’re sick of the MSM now, just wait until President Zero gets into office. Gag!
conservativesRus – I am suspect before I read any article from the MSM. Coming from AP only confirms that suspicion.
You picked a bad President. You need to figure out how you went wrong. Blaming our bad economy on the 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress (sonofdy, #58) does not excuse the other disasters, and it doesn’t explain the bad economy.
Conservatives loved Bush in 2000. But he was a phony already then. Conservatives were willing to tolerate his obvious campaign lies, but in retrospect that was a mistake.
I guess that’s why we have a president and a congress about to implement economic policies that failed in the United States in the 1930s, failed in the Soviet Union, failed in India in the 1970s, failed in Latin America in the 1980s, and failed again in Japan in the 1990s.
If Japan and Germany can’t make socialism work, it can’t be made to work.
iamsaved,
Nope. You missed my point. Or, I failed to make it more clear.
Instead of a BLOG on what the Press said, maybe MM could have run a BLOG on the speach itself, and invited her readers to comment on it.
I am sorry that you somehow suspect that I trust the Press. And no, I do not trust the Press, old media or new media.
Reading comprehension is essential to ‘wisdom and discernment’, wouldn’t you agree?
As succinctly as I can put it -
Comment on what the Press said OR comment on the speach itself?
I hold nothing but pure contempt for him as well.
Oh please LGM, Do you even know how the economy got this bad???
I doubt it. I bet you blame bush. And just bush. Grow up little boy. I blame every president since FDR and including FDR who did not balance the books. Thats every single one. This economy was destroyed by government borrowing to spend on PC crap programs and never caring about how it was paid for.
Dude. Wipe off the frothy mouth, rinse, and take a heavy sedative. You’re going to hurt yourself working up such a frenzy.
You’ve got a long and hard four years if you believe that PE Obama is going to be even half what liberals have built him up to be. That’s the trouble with creating an iconic figure. He’s still human and will eventually disappoint you.
Liberals are still in denial that Clinton was a liar even after seeing it repeated so often on TV.
The difference here is that conservatives have acknowledged many of Bush’s faults and have even criticized him for them. Many liberals still act as though the clouds will part for Obama.
You might want to buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride if you’re making lists. Obama’s already wavering on closing Gitmo and that’s before he’s even taken office.
LGM: Please state the lies that Bush told and provide facts and proof to back your statement up.
Because someone states information believing it to be correct and factual at the time does not make one a liar. It only makes their statements incorrect when the true facts see the light of day. Honest people will admit their error and correct their mistake.
Repeating information that you knowingly cannot prove and could very well be false, as you do on this forum, only points out who the real liar is.
zyzzyg: My apologies.
Look folks, Bush is decent guy, but it nevertheless remains true that the GOP screwed itself by nominating one vertical cadaver after another for the White House.
With an electorate whose critical “muddled midle” is composed of tender, self-absorbed, blissfully-ignorant victicratic egos yearning for a surrogate father figure as president, a party simply cannot keep offering up the likes of Dole, Bush, or McCain (no matter how decent those guys are).
The idiot/infantile middle that controls elections wants a president who “makes them feel good about themselves”. They want that warm and smarmy mesmerization to last forever. They don’t have the brains to figure out that an actual hard-ass adult is needed for the job (rather than a soothing, empathetic Big Daddy).
With the help of his fawning, starry-eyed groupies, Junior Obambi has the potential to truly put this nation at risk. Only a true disaster will force them all to grow up.
President Bush is a classy person. He did not feel it was appropriate to respond to the calumnies the Left Wing Media (not MSM) and the moonbats kept putting out about him. I thought he should have “called them out” every time. He tried to get along with the left and democrats–a big mistake. He has done his best to help out President Obama in his preparation to be president–unlike “B.J.” Clinton and his minions.
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I disliked his support for AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS (aka “undocumented immigrants”) and for his big spending programs.
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I liked his taking the fight to the terrorists–the first time we have charged them anything for their attacks. I never thought we would escape more attacks after 9/11. It was also good to see Saddam Hussein paying for his crimes at the end of a rope. He did the best he could with the information he had at the time he had to act.
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It would be great if we could see the future–but there are no “instant replays” or second guesses in the real world.
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He put two real conservatives on the Supreme Court–but it is still 5 to 4–barely in favor of our Constitution. Wait until President Obama makes it 5 to 4 in favor of the “living constitution”–goodbye America then.
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Thank you President Bush and Vice President Cheney. I am going to miss you a lot.
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John Bibb
On January 16th, 2009 at 10:07 am, lgm said:
What? How can you post that when your side let Oprah pick your nominee – a man who just happened to win because our side’s guy was handpicked by the media for his uncanny ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory?!
Really, what will you post about when President Bush is out, and Obama is left flailing for relevance in the gale of the ruinous actions of Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd?
Really, what will you post about when President Bush is out, and Obama is left flailing for relevance in the gale of the ruinous actions of Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd?
Oops! Excuse the double post please -
I’ve added my responses to your moronic statements in bold.
Bush is going to hell for screwing conservatives over so many times.
Why do you guys get so riled up when media criticizes Bush but nod in agreement when conservatives do it. Is it the case of “Only I can kick my dog”
Seems like you guys are more upset about the Associated Press than you were about Abu Ghraib?
Bush has been a complete disaster: Dumbest, drunkest, most irresponsible President ever.
usa_usa, I think there’s a difference between the comments by AP and what it typically a criticism of Bush by conservatives.
The APs comments are basically schoolyard taunting and other comments appear to simply be vindictive.
Criticism by conservatives, at least the criticism I am referring to, is more reasoned. Essentially… being critical of Bush’s decisions that defied reason.
AP has an agenda. Tear down Bush. Why else would they they print that headline? They expected, or rather, would have liked, Bush to grovel and apologize for even taking office after being elected. To think that Bush would not mention his accomplishments and thank those that worked for him is just ridiculous.
Maybe that explains the in conservative’s reactions and criticisms on Pres. Bush.
Bush betrayed far too many principles. He should apologize to all conservatives and Americans ( except the fat cats he bailed out ). Did you hear that he is sorry that his amnesty bill did not pass ? That alone is enough of a reason for real americans to dislike him forever.
#54, Now that’s funny!
#84 manish22. Yes, I agree that Bush betrayed conservatives in many way. Amnesty being one of them… He screwed up in Iraq by letting it get out of control… and he dropped the ball politically by not aggressively defending and promoting most of the positions that he took.
But you miss the point and make my case at the same time. These are reasoned issues. AP has irrationality behinds it’s grudge.