It’s Amazing How Different a Workout Looks Four Years Later.
Kipling once wrote “Heaven grant us patience with a man in love” and it seems we’re going to need a lot of patience with the MSM for the next four years. The sight of Obama, posing shirtless before the panting brigades of reporters, has given them yet another reason to write yet more embarrassing mash notes.
But it was not so during the Bush years. George Bush’s exercise habits, every bit as rigorous as those of the Obamessiah’s, were mocked pretty heartily. Some went so far as to suggest that he was shirking his duties as President. Michelle Malkin details how the times have changed.
Chait argued that Bush’s passionate devotion to exercise was a dereliction of duty. “Does the leader of the free world need to attain that level of physical achievement?” he jeered. “It’s nice for Bush that he can take an hour or two out of every day to run, bike or pump iron. Unfortunately, most of us have more demanding jobs than he does.”
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Chait was not alone. Reuters journalist Caron Bohan weaved the same unhinged themes into a piece on Bush’s two-hour, 17-mile bike ride with cycling champ Lance Armstrong in Crawford, Texas in 2005. After noting his six-day-a-week workout schedule, Bohan steered the piece into an anti-war screed:“Bush says exercise helps sharpen his thinking. But some of his critics view his exercise obsession as an indulgence that takes time away from other priorities. Among them is Cindy Sheehan, the Vacaville, California, mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who until late last week was camped out down the road from Bush’s ranch seeking a meeting with him to discuss her opposition to the war. Sheehan, who left her vigil on Thursday to tend to her sick mother, has said she believes Bush should take fewer bike rides to have more time to focus on the “the nation’s work.”
Kipling also said “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten”. It’s unfortunate that the MSM’s perverse stories will be the ones remembered as history. Perhaps, though, the history that will be remembered is the stories we bloggers tell – about how the MSM fell in love with a man and spent every ounce of their credibility to woo him.
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Category: Oh, THAT liberal media., President Barack Obama, President George Bush
"Perhaps, though, the history that will be remembered is the stories we bloggers tell – about how the MSM fell in love with a man and spent every ounce of their credibility to woo him."
You know….this statement struck me like a blow. I've been assuming that the MSM favoritism was due to liberal political bias…but I wonder if you may not be literally correct. Are there many homosexuals in journalism? Could that actually be a component of sexual attraction in their writings?
Am I naive that this has only just occurred to me? or is it a way out there thought?
@suek –
Sue, I didn't intend it that way, but I'll certainly allow that there is likely some of that happening in MSM-land. It doesn't explain all of it, but it could explain a small amount.