5 thoughts on “Bush Outpolls Obama”

  1. Not just a drilling ban, but a fishing ban as well with his FDA saying the seafood was fine the entire time. And entire time is probably the wrong phrase, as the fishing ban has only partly been lifter, still vast areas near New Orleans are off limits to commercial fishing for no other reason than Obama wants it that way.

  2. Yeah, the MSM has this relentless drumbeat of “narrative.”

    NBC’s Brian Williams, night after night, would in solem tones tell us of the disaster that was unfolding in the Gulf.

    Well into the crisis, he reported on the Florida beach resorts, which were not threatened by oil, but how the workers were suffering because the expected tourists didn’t show up — because they were scared away by fears of oil washing up on the beaches. Gee, where would the tourists get the idea to cancel their Florida Panhandle Gulf Coast vacations because of the possibility of oil washing ashore?

    NBC as much as caused the tourism economic crisis by emphasizing drama instead of accurate reporting on who was and wasn’t effected, and then they emphasize the drama of the suffering caused by — their sensational reporting.

    You see the same thing with the Chris Christie and losing the 400 million dollar education grant for “Race to the Top.” Stupid-in-glasses subbing for Couric calls it the “Rant Heard Around the World” of Christie blaming the Obama administration for not accepting his Education Secretaries word on some required figures in a face-to-face meeting. CBS would have ignored a story blaming Mr. Obama’s people for much of anything, were it not for the Obama White House “punching back twice as hard” for the Education Secretary caught on video tape hemming and hawing about not knowing the figures.

    Of course CBS reports on Christie changing his tune and firing the Education Secretary for misreporting what had transpired until he was called on it, with a lecture from Stupid-in-Glasses about “not doing their homework” and Christie being a “neophyte governor.”

    So I guess New Jersey’s Christie is a noob from New Jersey dealing with a pack of thugs from my home state of Illinois and is suffering the consequences. But it doesn’t change the fact that the info required for the application is not a state secret but a public record, and as to a video tape being taken out of context, now, where, tell me, did I get the idea that could happen.

    The other point is that punishing the kids of New Jersey for supposed incompetence of Christie or his Education Secretary is a form of “collective punishment”, because as Christie pointed out, the people of New Jersey “payed for their rating” in the form of taxes in support of education at the state level.

    But another part of the story you would never, ever get from Stupid-in-Glasses is that this hapless, nameless education Secretary is Brett Schundler, who if memory services me, is not some political patronage schlump but a “hero” featured at one time on CBS’ own 60 Minutes, as mayor of Newark who was “doing something” about the education crisis for disadvantaged youth.

    So the career of Mr. Schundler is trashed to serve the President’s vanity and CBS hews to “the narrative.” Just sickening.

  3. Well, this will teach Louisana that red thinking will be punished and blue thinking will be rewarded.

  4. That is an amazing pol considering the level of negative press that Bush got during Katrina.

    The media was initially reporting tens of thousand of deaths and rampant rapes and murders at their football stadium. Stories that later appeared not to be accurate but the image had already sunk in with the public.

    For Katrina, the media actively portrayed the situation in orders of magnitude worse than it actually was. For the BP, spill the media actively portrayed the situation as being orders of magnitude better than it actually was.

    Imagine if Bush ordered a no fly zone over NO. Is it any wonder there were not more pics of oil covered birds or other dead sea life?

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