Did W turn himself into a hero via the "bullhorn" moment or did the media?

[blm]

Seems to me that all those in the media who pushed the idea that Bush "couldn't be beat on the terror issue" while covering up his monumental failures and criminal neglect on this issue, are the ones who decided they NEEDED to turn an absolute ZERO into a HERO just for their own frightened needs.

The media in this country deserves to stand trial for treason against this country and its democracy every bit as much as BushInc, because without the media protecting his lies and crimes, Bush would have been in jail by now. Everyone in the country would have known how dangerously they lied and covered up for his incompetence.

Pointing the finger anywhere else avoids the most basic truth.....if we had an HONEST media doing its actual job, there would be no BushInc.

[chieftain]

1. I couldn't agree with you more.

The word I have been using to describe the msm role in war crimes is "complicit". They have aided and abetted the liars who have hijacked our country and sullied our name throughout the world. As much as I appreciate the Minneapolis paper finally speaking the truth about these crooks and incompetents, the editorial does not address how the news media has utterly failed in its responsibilities.

[blm]

2. That's the rub. The media always directs the blame at the Democratic party

and any of its leaders, by portraying them as colossal failures for not having the power or numbers to stop Bush or even investigate his lies and crimes.

The media DOES have the numbers to get the truth out and call for an investigation for all the country to hear, but they WON'T.

But, by putting all the blame on Democrats and by mischaracterizing Dems as lefty whackos "out of touch" with mainstream Americans they are able to avoid looking into their own mirrors and seeing who ACTUALLY deserves the blame.

They know it. They are adept as BushInc at pointing the fingers of blame for their own failures at everyone BUT themselves.

I implore the DNC and Dean to call them on this behavior, but, it seems he is having difficulty overcoming their characterizations of him, as well.

[leftofthedial]

3. the media is a wholly owned subsidiary of bu$hco.

they aren't accomplices, they are active co-conspirators.

[LibDemAlways]

4. An honest press with even a shred of integrity

would have excoriated the chimp for his entire 9/11 performance. Sitting in that classroom listening to kids' reading while knowing the attack was taking place, then sticking around to pose for photos? Come, on. Clinton would have been forced to resign that night if he had pulled a stunt like that.

Then flying around the country like a scared bunnypants for hours? Those old enough to remember the events of 11/22/63 will remember that Lyndon Johnson returned immediately to Washington and addressed the nation from the airfield. A "leader" should "lead" from a position of strength, not chickenshit cowardice.

Then, when the all-clear signal was given, the fraud made a trip to NYC to stand on the still-smoldering grave of thousands and behave like a drunken cheerleader. Beyond appalling that this display of sick, self-serving, bizarre behavior was given a positive spin.

There is seemingly nothing this criminal can do or say that would be bad enough for the press co-conspirators to break ranks and start telling the truth. 9/11 proves it.

[Cha]

5. Yes it does!

And it a just world it will.

bush should have been rendered a coward and homicidially negligent by staying with the pet goat story photo op instead of getting up and leading a nation under attack, but the media conveniently hid that and only Michael Moore has brought it to light.

No bullhorn would have changed that!

[blm]

9. "homicidally negligent"

You got that right. No bullhorn should have changed that, but, the media made SURE that it did.

[journalist3072]

6. the media!

I definitely think the media is responsible for turning Bush into some sort of comic-book type superhero after the bullhorn moment.

I'm sorry, but it didn't a lot a superhero to say "The whole world can here you, and the people who knocked down these towers will here from all of us soon."

If you call yourself a leader, you are supposed to rise to the occassion in times of crisis. That is expected of you.

[leesa]

7. Absolutely. They are fully complicit.

[BillZBubb]

8. The media made the moment.

The Repugs set up the event and knew what the result would be. The media lapped it up and annointed the Chimperor, just as the Repugs wanted.

The media lost all it's supposed objectivity in a "patriotic" attempt to "rally around our leader". Pathetic really.

But, the sheeple are just as much to blame. They accepted the bullshit even though they saw live on TV the rattled Chimp flying from bunker to bunker the day of the attack. Some hero.

Bush did no more than any leader would do, and he did much less than most would do.

[JI7]

10. another example is the flight suit stunt

if it was Clinton or Gore or any other Democrat the media whores would have attacked them for it. but for the CHimp they played it up as positive. and can you imagine that bitch Chris Matthews said at the time something like "you can't see someone like Kerry in that uniform". and he was talking to the right wing shill Ann Coulter and even she knew best not to respond or agree with that.

just like when Kerry went hunting which he has always done and the media treated it like a joke. if it was the Chimp they would have talked about how it shows he can connect with people and some other shit.

[carpetbagger]

11. I think people gave him a fresh chance.

I include myself in that group. I think the media failed when, having given Bush a fresh chance, they turned a blind eye to his monumental and willful fuckups, starting with the wimpy force deployment in Afghanistan, as if his heart wasn't really in that war.

[RBHam]

12. That "moment" was staged...

CNN helped with the set up. They used a time delay to make sure that if Bush screwed up they could polish it later. The guy who yells "We can't hear you!" after Bush started out mumbling more than usual for even him - I think that guy was a plant.

I'll go to my grave believing it.

[Lisa]

13. Karl Rove arranged it ...

The firefighter who was gripped by Bush had been asked to get up on top of the crushed truck and test it for stability. Then, they trotted out Dubya.