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A Punchy President Meets the Press [milbank alert]
Washington Post ^ | 3/22/06 | dana milbank

Posted on 03/22/2006 2:42:48 PM PST by mathprof

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To: mathprof
The fact that this article isn't on the editorial page is enough to damn the entire paper.
41 posted on 03/22/2006 5:49:00 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: EricT.
Helen Thomas looks like an elephant's ass with red lipstick.

Coincidentally, her head is filled with the same thing an elephants ass is.

42 posted on 03/22/2006 5:52:47 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: mathprof
First, it's the Loven hatchet job (see thread on FR) on the President's use of indefinite pronouns in his recent encounters with the press, and, now, this!

No intentions to suggest a "vast Left Wing conspiracy" theory a la Hillary, but is there some possible, as yet uncoordinated, movement afoot by these bozos to undermine what they feel to be a President who is getting the best of them with the public?

43 posted on 03/22/2006 5:55:20 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: mathprof
He identified Terry Hunt, the Associated Press's veteran White House correspondent, as the generic "AP Person." He accused New York Times correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller of sleeping through his speech Monday in Cleveland. After USA Today's David Jackson interrupted a Bush non-answer, the president queried: "Now, what is your follow-up yell?"

These people are so unintentionally funny.

Iraq is approaching civil war

Well they certainly have the talking points down. All the MSM.

There is a small civil war in Iraq. It consists of Syria and Iran posing as Iraqis blowing each other up. Along with innocent Iraqis of course. And being cheered on by the MSM.
Anything to make it look like America is on the skids.

Sorry MSN, the truth is leaking out all over the place no matter how much you try to hide it by not reporting the successes.

44 posted on 03/22/2006 6:00:47 PM PST by Syncro
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To: mathprof

"Back, to, uh, this man's question right here," he said, and then he looked down at his seating chart for a refresher before adding: "This man being Jim."

"Sorry, Jim," the president said after everybody had a chuckle at his expense. "I got a lot on my mind these days."

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Actually that is a great comeback. if it was a liberal Democrat, they would laud him as ...

"DESPITE RIGORS OF OFFICE, PRESIDENT MAINTAINS HIS GRACE AND HUMOR"


45 posted on 03/22/2006 6:15:15 PM PST by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: mathprof
Bill Sammon is excellent on Milbank in his book Fighting Back...Milbank has been insufferable since the beginning of Bush's Presidency.
46 posted on 03/22/2006 6:17:28 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: saganite
I thought the POTUS was visibly nervous, and under stress.

I would have been also if I had been trying to talk to a lynch mob.

He should have said that the limp wristed, furry faced libs will never get the picture up until the time they are facing a firing squad fore or aft.

47 posted on 03/22/2006 6:19:53 PM PST by oldtimer
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To: Howlin
Well, I never met his mother, but I have met him. Your assessment is correct. ;*)
48 posted on 03/22/2006 6:32:04 PM PST by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: loveliberty2; Mo1; Miss Marple; deport; Txsleuth; onyx; A Citizen Reporter; kcvl
No intentions to suggest a "vast Left Wing conspiracy" theory a la Hillary, but is there some possible, as yet uncoordinated, movement afoot by these bozos to undermine what they feel to be a President who is getting the best of them with the public?

Ya think?

49 posted on 03/22/2006 6:34:30 PM PST by Howlin ("It doesn't have a policy. It doesn't need to have a policy. What's the point of a Democratic policy)
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To: Howlin

Sounds like it to me, too!!!

I would laugh harder...but, I can't get over the fact that when they bad mouth our "failure" in Iraq and Afghanistan it directly implicates our military.

THEY are the ones drawing up the war plans and executing them, not President Bush.


50 posted on 03/22/2006 6:37:39 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

HAHAHA! I was just thinking that here we have ANOTHER candidate for the subject of that column!!!!


51 posted on 03/22/2006 6:38:48 PM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Syncro
He identified Terry Hunt, the Associated Press's veteran White House correspondent, as the generic "AP Person."

And you ALL refer to the PRESIDENT of the United States, COMMANDER-in-CHIEF of the United States Armed Forces, (the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, btw) and the LEADER of the free world as ............. Bush.

Generic AP person fits.

52 posted on 03/22/2006 6:39:05 PM PST by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: Txsleuth

THEY are the ones drawing up the war plans and executing them, not President Bush.



IMO they are still remembering the LBJ area where every detail of the war effort was managed by the WH. This President hires people to run things and leaves them alone to do their job. He may get reports but he doesn't manage their every move, nor should he.


53 posted on 03/22/2006 6:41:54 PM PST by deport
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To: dangerfield
Milbank's sole responsibility at the Washington Post is to write the daily Bush-bashing story. He also gets to make snarky comments on MSNBC.

This story (and it is not commentary or a column, but a news story, as all of his writing is) is fairly mild for Milbank. He is usually much more vicious. He loathes President Bush and it oozes from his pores.

Bill Sammon gave a great thumbnail sketch of his behavior in the White House press corps in the days leading up to September 11. No respect, mocking tone in questions, sarcastic comments about the press people and the President made in front of White House people, etc.

Don't waste your time looking for anything else he writes. He's a poisonous little creep.

54 posted on 03/22/2006 6:43:43 PM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Justanobody
Fer sure.

He's been having fun with the traitorous press lately, hasn't he?

Hellin Thomas and now this.
55 posted on 03/22/2006 6:46:42 PM PST by Syncro
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To: Verginius Rufus
It occurs to me that Milbank thinks everyone loves the press as much as they love themselves.

Personally, I wish the President had used the Cheney epithet for all of them.

56 posted on 03/22/2006 6:47:58 PM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: deport

Actually, I think CONGRESS WANTS to control every aspect of Bush's job...and the military's.

And I am not just talking about the dems.

I have gotten the distinct impression that they don't want 3 separate branches...they want 2 1/2...Judicial gets one, Bush gets 1/2...and they get 1 1/2!!!

When Warner proposed that resolution calling for basically an end to the war in 2006...and over 90 Senators voted for it....I KNEW that they were NOT going to let the Pentagon and the CIC run the war.


57 posted on 03/22/2006 6:49:19 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
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To: Miss Marple

The best thing about a Milbank's column is that it only takes a sentence or two to decide it's more of the usual crap and.....stop reading.

Wonder if Dana realizes just how many people turn his words and message "OFF" after just a couple sentences.

Sort of pleasant to think about, really.


58 posted on 03/22/2006 6:54:03 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Take the high road. You'll never have to meet a Democrat.)
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To: deport

Regarding this last post I sent you....I was wrong on the vote in the Senate on that amendment..it was 78-12..

But still TOO many Republicans were willing to usurp the CIC and Pentagon's job.


59 posted on 03/22/2006 7:38:09 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
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To: Syncro
He's been having fun with the traitorous press lately, hasn't he?

OH YES! What fun to watch! Between watching the President and FReeping I am getting nothing done! ;*)

60 posted on 03/22/2006 8:54:13 PM PST by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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