More from the “Media Hates Bush” File
[Guest post by DRJ]
I just ran across this CBS News editorial dated June 8. It reprints an article from The New Republic that compares Ahmadinejad to George W. Bush:
Meet Iran’s George W. Bush
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“Mousavi is not Iran’s Barack Obama. He’s more like John Kerry, and this election year is strikingly like 2004 in the United States. The incumbent president is deeply unpopular at home and abroad. He came to power with a dubious mandate, but governed in a polarizing fashion that has divided even his one-time allies. Iranians have paid the price in every area of life that is touched by the government. The election is Mousavi’s to lose–but to win it, he will need to unite a divided opposition, and inspire at least a few of the beleaguered urban voters who have stopped going to the polls.”
The American media is like a first grade reading book, but instead of “See Spot run” the template is “Bush is bad.”
– DRJ
They don’t even know anything about Iran. Pitiful.
Comment by Mike K (2cf494) — 6/14/2009 @ 8:13 pm
Wow, it must be exhilarating to write completely free of any ethical constraints and devoid of any facts.
Comment by Paul (creator of "Staunch Brayer") (bcc87c) — 6/14/2009 @ 8:18 pm
They don’t even know much about the United States, to make that odious comparison of Bush with a terrorist-backing Holocaust denier.
Comment by Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 6/14/2009 @ 8:19 pm
They should be embarassed, but they won’t be, or aren’t. What total and complete arsehattery.
Comment by JD (d3f3ab) — 6/14/2009 @ 8:25 pm
And they wonder why I will shed no tears when the MSM falls.
Comment by Techie (482700) — 6/14/2009 @ 9:41 pm
This is yet another example of an abjective unbiased press.
Comment by JD (d3f3ab) — 6/14/2009 @ 10:00 pm
This is not bias. It’s lunacy. George Bush liberated 60 million people. Leftists are unhinged. They have no sense of decency. They demand civility but don’t reciprocate. They will destroy anthing in their path. Even a 14 year old girl is not off limits, if her mother is prominently pro life,
Comment by Terry Gain (6b2a64) — 6/14/2009 @ 11:07 pm
“…this election year is strikingly like 2004 in the United States. The incumbent president is deeply unpopular at home and abroad.”
If the incumbent president was “deeply unpopular” at home in 2004…then how did he manage to win the popular vote?
Leftoid “journalist” = nit wit
Comment by Dave Surls (e38a04) — 6/15/2009 @ 2:08 am
CBS sucks. I’d say the result is more like Obama using ACORN and labor unions to undermine the vote.
Comment by krusher (17d6f0) — 6/15/2009 @ 3:49 am
Yes, Bush was so deeply unpopular at home that he won reelection and his party maintained majorities in Congress.
But no one that the reporter knows voted for him, so……….
Comment by Techie (482700) — 6/15/2009 @ 5:54 am
More sliming of the right and the military with extremism accusations from sanctimonious endomorph Tim Rutten.
Comment by Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 6/15/2009 @ 6:35 am
Krusher has is right.
Comment by tyree (7f4639) — 6/15/2009 @ 6:41 am
Well, Patterico, if you ever write a book, the title is clear: “Meet America’s PRAVDA.”
Comment by Kevin Murphy (0b2493) — 6/15/2009 @ 8:20 am
Comment by Paul (creator of “Staunch Brayer”) — 6/14/2009 @ 8:18 pm
Didn’t we previously label that as “Fiction”?
Comment by AD - RtR/OS! (0d8c81) — 6/15/2009 @ 9:01 am
The “Bush is bad” mantra runs worldwide. Read any issue of the Economist following November 2008 – the prevalence of gratuitous unsupported insults and putdowns to George Bush in their ‘news’ items is blatant in quantity and quality.
And the MSM continues in its promotion of ‘anti-Bush equals Obama’ by stolidly refusing to examine or publicize many of the questionable acts and policies of our current administration.
Today’s example: Obama’s firing of inspector-general Gerald Walpin. Where are the headlines on this example of a culture of corruption? Under the Bush admin, this item would have led for a week.
Comment by Insufficiently Sensitive (a939d1) — 6/15/2009 @ 10:08 am
Given the slow response to the situation by the Obama Administration, I propose that Obama appoint George W. Bush as the “Decider Czar.”
The “Decider Czar” will make all decisions for the administration leaving Obama free to do the two things he likes best .. campaign and blame Bush.
Comment by Neo (46a1a2) — 6/15/2009 @ 10:37 am