old man bush

Bush's father complains of news media "hostility"
Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:37 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so unrelenting he sometimes talked back to his television set.

"It's one thing to have an adversarial ... relationship -- hard-hitting journalism -- it's another when the journalists' rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity," former President George Bush said.

The elder Bush, the 41st U.S. president, had a relatively collegial relationship with the press but things turned sour during his losing 1992 re-election campaign. He got so fed up with media coverage that supporters at the time circulated hats with the slogan "Annoy the Media -- Re-Elect Bush."

"I won't get too personal here -- but this antipathy got worse after the 43rd president took office," the former president said. He was speaking at a reception for a journalism scholarship awarded in honor of the late Hugh Sidey, White House correspondent for Time magazine….


Well, fuck you, old man. The fucking press ain’t falling all over themselves to kiss his asshole kid’s butt anymore, and his feelings get hurt. Oh, boo hoo. Where was he, by the way, when Clinton was president? He didn’t notice that the press was vilifying him?

Let me fill you in guy. Your kid is responsible for the deaths of well over a half-million people. I know, I know. That means nothing to you and your “beautiful mind” babs, but it sure means a hell of a lot to the people who live in the real world.