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Do you remember President Bush or his Press Secretaries singling out...

Did The Bush or his Press Secretaries single out opposing journalists

  • Yes Bush did this too.

    Votes: 8 50.0%

  • No. This is unique to Obama (though The Clintons singled out Rush as a racist)

    Votes: 8 50.0%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
Ahh..... so bush unlike obama said nothing? :mrgreen:
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Bush was willfully uninformed. he relied upon his staff to brief him, admitted it, and had a different media strategy.

Bush addressed criticisms, but didn't put together anything very coherent or specific. He was typically and purposely vague.

Here's another one.

"If Al Gore is the voice of the Democratic Party on national security issues, we welcome it" - Scott McClellan
 
zimmer said:
The dems have had 20 years to bring down Rush... .
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Has the whitehouse ever tried to actually bring Rush down? Did you even read what I wrote? The point was never to bring down Rush. It was to use Rush, who is unpopular with moderates, to brand the GOP as a party of extremists. We're talking about totally different things.

This is backfiring... an administration going after a private citizen?
Front page on Drudge for more than 24-hours.
ENEMIES LIST: WHITE HOUSE PLOTS LIMBAUGH COVERAGE
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And why should Drudge Report matter?

A guy with 3-hours a day, and other radio hosts defending him?
They would have been much better off leaving him be instead of making him a factor.
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Explain to me how exactly this is going to backfire on Obama, I'm curious to hear this.

But Obama is true to his Alinsky roots.
Isolate and destroy was the intention behind "don't listen to Rush".
And their endless lies about what Rush's "I want him to fail" means.
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Like I've said, you've missed the entire point.
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
:lol: that's funny stuff.





But do you not think the president looks foolish signling out entertainers?
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I think that to some people it will look foolish, but I think if it works, tying Rush to the Republicans, then the advantage outweighs that.
 
zimmer said:
You hit a point within the "divide and conquer paragraph" that makes it look like an even Huger blunder.

I think we all agree the Republicans lacked leadership on The Hill after Obama was elected and up to that critical juncture... "don't listen to Rush".
I believed Obama sucked all the oxygen out of them up to that point.

After that it was like the creation of the universe.
"don't listen to Rush" was The Big Bang Moment and the R's have been getting oxygen since then, and their universe expanding.

Obama gave the R's not only a surrogate leader until some come forward to join Rush, but Rush is now Obama's more public than ever Fourth Estate.

The R's... Leaderless and without oxygen, Obama made a blunder of magnificent proportions.

We like these kinds of blunders.
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Yes, the new leader will join Rush. That is the plan. ;)
 
rodney.b said:
On your point about the media, I think they made it pretty clear during the election which political party they support. Secondly, if you actually listened to Rush then you would know that he has stated he is not, and has no interest in being the leader of the GOP.
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I know, people should stop listening to the media. :lol: (I love irony. This all started by Obama telling republicans to stop listening to the media.)

If you actually read my post, you would see that I never stated that Rush wanted to be the leader. He is he leader by default. He can deny it, I don't blame him. But what republican is listened to more than him right now? Why have two republicans had to apologize for criticizing him?
 
Though i give her credit, she did fix that **** up

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She fixed that done broke ****. :lol:
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
Fox i think... she has also made the rounds as well..... She sounds like the drunk old lady who smokes too much,
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I know she's on Fox. She shouldn't be on TV at all. I've seen her a couple times on other channels. I think they realized she has a voice for newsprint and a face for radio. That must be why Fox keeps her on. :mrgreen:
 
niftydrifty said:
Of course I do.

Here's one.

"The President is focused on talking about the future and how we lead this country going forward in the war on terrorism, and how we lead going forward to address the many challenges that we face. There are some critical challenges facing this nation over the next four years. The first and foremost is how we lead in the war on terrorism, and that's where this debate should be focused. That's where the American people want the debate focused. Yet Democrats are clearly orchestrating attacks on the President because they can't talk about the future, and they can't win when the discussion is on the issues.

...

Just yesterday the Democratic National Committee launched what they called Operation Fortunate Son. Fortunate Son was the name of a book from the 2000 campaign that was written by a convicted felon who was widely discredited. And this whole effort is simply to attack the President. That's what it is about. The Democrats -- and then you have this so-called group, Texans for Truth, which is lead by a Democrat operative in Texas who has the support of the MoveOn.org organization. These are just a few examples. You have an op-ed that was written by Susan Estrich that talked about how the Democrats are going to start engaging in personal attacks on the President's character. And the American people deserve better. It's just sad to see that the debate -- that they are lowering themselves to this level."

- Scott McClellan, September 15, 2004
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Who did the president single out as The Obamatrons have?
 
QUESTION: As Commander-In-Chief, what was the President's reaction to television's Bill Maher, in his announcement that members of our Armed Forces who deal with missiles are cowards, while the armed terrorists who killed 6,000 unarmed are not cowards, for which Maher was briefly moved off a Washington television station?

MR. FLEISCHER: I have not discussed it with the President, one. I have --

QUESTION: Surely, as a --

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm getting there.

QUESTION: Surely as Commander, he was enraged at that, wasn't he?

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm getting there, Les.

QUESTION: Okay.

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm aware of the press reports about what he said. I have not seen the actual transcript of the show itself. But assuming the press reports are right, it's a terrible thing to say, and it unfortunate. And that's why -- there was an earlier question about has the President said anything to people in his own party -- they're reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.
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September 11, 2001 Federal Response

White House Press briefing Sept. 26, 2001.
 
Show me bush's lips critisizing a media person.


As far as your quote IT, it does not equal what Obama and his minions said about Rush.... In fact your quote shows how they tried to avoid lowering themselves. Thanks for that!
 
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WillRockwell said:
Are you kidding? Bush's henchmen even attacked the Dixie Chicks.
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The Dixie Chicks are musicians first off, not journalists, this thread is about if we recall Bush attacking journalists. Do you remember Bush attacking Journalists or not?
The fail is strong with you!
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
Show me bush's lips critisizing a media person.


As far as your quote IT, it does not equal what Obama and his minions said about Rush.... In fact your quote shows how they tried to avoid lowering themselves. Thanks for that!
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Moderator's Warning:
All DP members need to watch what they say and what they do.


Now, this is not really an official mod warning. I did this to illustrate how that sounds coming from an authority. It certainly sounds like a warning/threat. Obama made one comment about Congressional conservatives listening to Rush. There was no threat from his evil "minions". :roll:
 
independent_thinker2002 said:
September 11, 2001 Federal Response

White House Press briefing Sept. 26, 2001.
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Yes. He never spoke with the President about it.
His chief of staff wasn't running around colluding with the press about it.

It was an issue of Maher's own making, a question from the press about a specific comedien, and answered in context.

No long running issue was made of it past that point.

Bush didn't single out Maher... like that gnat on a horse's ass would concern the President.

I remember the incident well.
I sent ABC an email asking them to keep Maher... as he was a great service and I believe reflected accurately the overall sentiment at ABC.
 
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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales raised the possibility yesterday that New York Times journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information based on the outcome of the criminal investigation underway into leaks to the Times of data about the National Security Agency's surveillance of terrorist-related calls between the United States and abroad.
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Prosecution of Journalists Is Possible in NSA Leaks
 
independent_thinker2002 said:
Moderator's Warning:
All DP members need to watch what they say and what they do.


Now, this is not really an official mod warning. I did this to illustrate how that sounds coming from an authority. It certainly sounds like a warning/threat. Obama made one comment about Congressional conservatives listening to Rush. There was no threat from his evil "minions". :roll:
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:lol: the names I just called you......... :rofl:rofl:rofl
 
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