Sunday's Los Angeles Times published another story in liberal MSM's long-running series, “Bush, the Divider.”
Written by the LA Times' own Washington bureau chief, Ron Brownstein, this latest story ran under the headline:
State of the Union Puts Bush on Collision Course With HimselfHere's Brownstein's lead paragraph:
On the nation's biggest domestic problems, President Bush faces a clear choice as he approaches Tuesday's State of the Union address. He can make a political point. Or he can make progress against the problems. It's probably not possible to do both — unless Bush wants to radically reconfigure his political strategy.The rest of Brownstein's story is in the same vein here.
Brownstein’s story will appeal to most "Divider" fans. But some fans at least may question why Brownstein and the LA Times ran this latest "Divider" story just now.
That’s because today a majority of Senate Democrats – including Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy - voted to deny an up or down confirmation vote to a Supreme Court nominee The American Bar Association rated Highly Qualified.
Bush is "the Divider?” "He's not willing to reach out?" "He hasn't set a new tone in Washington."
Can any reasonable person fall for any of that today?
Now, we shouldn't expect Brownstein and the rest of liberal MSM to stop writing “Divider” stories. The pay's too good, the work is easy, and they're sure of "puff-puff" interviews on PBS, NPR and the others.
But timing is everything. Brownstein and liberal MSM better watch out or they'll lose people to more reliable news sources, including ones on the Internet.
Oops, you're right, that's already happening.
1 comments:
Brownstein and his ilk owe President Bush a huge "Thank You."
The President must be a man of remarkable constraint. I know every time I hear these purveyors of outhouse offerings say something as vapid as "he won't reach out" I think that there is a valid complaint there.
Just not for them, the valid complaint belongs to the rest of us that thinks these pedantic practioners of punditry and yellow dog scurrilism (uh, journalism? naaah...scurrilism)) aren't reached out to with a swiftly moving brick bat.
This president has failed to veto any bill, and has signed and/or campaigned for more liberal legislation and big government entrenchment than any president since FDR.
Yet, this moron, says he won't reach out. And he bases this on a false conclusion about the economy.
Let me tell you, I, for one, hope the president does reach out to the left, I will lend him a baseball bat. I don't have a brick bat.
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