Originally posted by: FuzzyBee
Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: dali71
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RyESrsd6CI
This is pretty funny, but one has to wonder what the MSM would have done if Bush had made the same mistake. I suspect that we won't hear too much about this, similar to how his 57 states gaffe was buried.
It's pretty funny when the righties who are the group that has huge double standards at forgiving their own side but screams like babies over any trivial issue by Democrats, pretends that it's the other way around. You have to be terribly deluded and ignorant to try to do that.
Bush got huge passes all the time, while the right has raised all kinds of nonsense over every Democrat, especially Obama, when he's not putting lipstick on a pig of palling around with terrorists.
What a crock of crap the bolded statement is.
It looks like one to the ignorant.
Let's pick just one example to make the point.
In the campaign of 2000, the media bought the Bush attack line against Gore as a 'liar' hook, line, and sinker. They couldn't give enough coverage to the nonsense of his 'lies', dozens of the nonsense stories, from the invention of a 'lie' about Gore claiming to "invent the internet", (what he actually said was true about his leadership); about his exaggerating his and Tipper being the basis for the couple in 'Love Story' (what he actually said was completely accurate); trying to twist a minor error in who he had flown with when visiting a fores tfire into a 'lie', claims he exaggerated his role in the Love Canal investigation (what he said was accurate), and so on. This false and negative coverage of "Gore as liar" easily cost him more than the 435 Florida votes deciding who was president.
On the other hand, George Bush as a young man had seen his father lose a Congressional race to a Texan who won by attacking Bush Sr. as a 'Connecticut Preppy' while the Texan was a 'real Texan'. Bush learned the lesson to never let that happen. Shortly before the 2000 race, Bush bought a ranch - and pretended he was a 'rancher'. Cowboy hat, clearing brush, whatever - he would be a 'real rancher Texan', and avoid the dangers of being accused of what he was, a Harvard and Yale rich kid draft dodger.
Bush could have *easily* been exposed and ridiculed by the press for his act as a 'good ol' boy', but instead the press just went with it and did not ridicule him the way they did Gore.
There are all kinds of examples of Bush getting a pass, but you don't care about the facts, it appears.
