Posted on 03/01/2017 4:25:37 PM PST by Starman417
W gave an interview recently and it was depicted widely as being a criticism of Donald Trump.
Former President George W. Bush seemed to criticize President Donald Trump in an interview with the Today Show Monday morning, saying the news media and freedom of religion are crucial to American democracy. There should also be an investigation into the alleged Russian hacking into the U.S. election, Bush said.Even Ace agreed with the line of thinking.Those are all issues that Trump has dealt with in his first month in office. He has called the Russia story “fake news,” a distraction and even fabrication by the press, despite the fact that the CIA said in December Russia interfered with U.S. elections; he's been hostile toward the news media, which culminated in his announcement last weekend that he'd boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner, a traditional event showing goodwill between the press and the president; and his administration has been revising an executive order that would temporarily ban visitors and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim nations.
Eh, kind of annoying.And Fox News jumped in:
Former President George W. Bush offered what appeared to be a thinly veiled critique of his Republican successor on Monday, as he defended the importance of the media and immigration policies that are "welcoming."I don't agree. I think that wily Bush really agreed with Trump, but couched his words carefully to make it sound like he was being critical.
For instance, Yahoo quoted Bush as saying
“We need the media to hold people like me to account,”But what he actually said was:
“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account."We need an independent media. Yes, we do need an independent media, but that is not what we have now. We have "journalists" in collusion with democrat administrations, "journalists" who leak debate questions, "journalists" who gushed over obama, and "journalists" who tingled when obama spoke. We have "journalists" who forget obama declared war on them but continued to bow at his feet.
That's not very independent. W added:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Damage Control.
Don’t think it will work.
Actually. this attempt of revision re what Bushco said seems to be fake/junk news.
Interesting that it seems to come out after Trump’s excellent and successful speech last night.
Also, I don’t think that Bushco was ready for the pounding he got from those voted for him and wished they hadn’t!
Damage control here will be about as effective as the Japanese Navy’s Damage Control at the battle of Midway on All four of Japan’s large aircraft carriers—Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu sunk in the Battle of Midway!
I went back and listened again and the media has twisted Bush into an unintended criticism. They are good at that, look at all the negative coverage of Trump’s wonderful speech that the media is pushing today.
GW, please just shut up and leave us alone. We elected President Trump to protect us instead of another Bushco idiot like Jebbie! How much are the Opecker Princes paying you to mouth your defense of their Jihadists killers?
How much are the Mexican drug cartels paying you?
Once again,” Islam is the Religion of Peace!”
Weak.
I guess W realized attacking President Trump after remaining silent over the last 8 years does not play well to conservatives and Patriots. Moreover, calling President Trump a Russian for his little low energ brother... Jebbie is not popular.
Please see the following thread about W thinking Trump is possibly working with the Russians.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3530008/posts
Now the diehard Bushbots are out in full force trying to spin their way out of this mess. Haha!
Bull Shiite.
And that he enabled Obama in more ways than could ever be readily counted, puts him almost at a veritable tie.
A little too nuanced for me.
Your second sentence is the critical one.
“Second worst president in American history.
“That he enabled Obama in more ways than could ever be readily counted, puts him almost at a veritable tie.”
At this point many of us probably feel that GW and Obama are at tie re the worst president we have ever had.
That is saying a lot with LBJ, Carter and Clintoon in the race for the worst president.
“I went back and listened again and the media has twisted Bush into an unintended criticism. They are good at that, look at all the negative coverage of Trump’s wonderful speech that the media is pushing today.
Your assessment is accurate. The media are trying to set even Republicans against Trump and against each other. Even if it takes making up false quotes.
When W lost me, he lost one of his last supporters. He wasted his presidency then became pals with slimeball Clinton. Now he attacks the Republican president. Go back to Texas, W.
As another astute poster already stated this is nothing but "damage control" coming from the Hildabeast loving, globalist, anti-American, pro ILLEGAL ALIEN, "open borders", pro ISLAMIC TERRORIST INVADERS GW Bush! I am thoroughly ashamed that I ever voted for or supported him.
Bush stabbed America, the American CITIZENS, President Trump and Bush's entire former conservative base of supporters IN THE BACK when he voted for Hildabeast over Trump and sided with our enemies and ILLEGAL ALIENS against American CITIZENS!
Hate to admit it, but I simply am no longer a fan of GW or his dad. And that isn’t just a yesterday arrival with me.
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