Author Topic: 'Bushisms' and 'Quaylisms' you aren't likely to hear about... (Read 410 times)

wulfie · « **on:** September 10, 2003, 10:42:55 PM »

...from Al Franken's 'mainstream media', because they are 'Fair and Balanced', unlike Fox.

John Kerry: "I think that $87 billion should not be just granted as a rubber check to this president."

Howard Dean: "[I favor] a renewable energy policy in this country so we stop sending all our oil money to the Saudis and the Iranians and the Syrians, where they recycle it back into terror."

Bob Graham: "the president . . . abandoned the war on terror in the spring of 2001 by moving military and intelligence resources out of Afghanistan to begin the war on Iraq.

Carol Moseley Braun: "A generation ago, a president of the United States told the American people that all we had to fear was fear itself."

Howard Dean: "The two-state solution is a solution that I support and I believe is the ultimate way to peace in the Middle East. And we're going to have to be the honest broker. The Americans are the only people who can broker that, and I wish the president had spent more time on the Middle East and less time on Iraq."

What, no 'unbiased' 'professional' news anchors making snide marks about these comments on the evening news?

Just curious...about the difference in treatment.

Mike/wulfie

Karnak · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2003, 10:48:31 PM »

The mainstream media doesn't focus (so far as I've noticed) on individual speach gaffs so much as on frequent gaffs or major gaffs.

Most of the gaffs you posted (and in Mosely-Braun's statment I can't see a gaff unless you mean the "A generation ago", which given her age isn't a gaff) are minor.

If the trend sustains it'll be mentioned in the mainstream press.

Until then it, like the Bush/Qualye gaffs, will remain the province of internet and email lists.

Gadfly · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2003, 10:50:08 PM »

Edit quick, Karnak......

capt. apathy · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2003, 10:55:49 PM »

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John Kerry: "I think that $87 billion should not be just granted as a rubber check to this president."

Nice.

midnight Target · « **Reply #4 on:** September 11, 2003, 11:15:24 AM »

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Carol Moseley Braun: "A generation ago, a president of the United States told the American people that all we had to fear was fear itself."

What is wrong here?

Some of those are funny.

Gadfly · « **Reply #5 on:** September 11, 2003, 11:30:43 AM »

Other than the grammatical errors she makes, don't you think it is kind of silly for her to, A) Not know which President said it B) Not know the context in which he said it.

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** September 11, 2003, 11:33:57 AM »

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Originally posted by Gadfly
Other than the grammatical errors she makes, don't you think it is kind of silly for her to, A) Not know which President said it B) Not know the context in which he said it.

If that is true. I think you are assuming a lot from a single quote however.

Gadfly · « **Reply #7 on:** September 11, 2003, 11:38:05 AM »

From what I have seen of the (loosely used) Lady, I fear I am correct.