Did Bush just sign his own death warrant (figuratively speaking)?

[FatDave]

Seems like blaming the media may not have been such a wise move. Up until now the press had handled him and his little war with kid gloves (to put it mildly), seemingly always afraid to report anything negative against him. Today we've been hearing things like "actually, the Iraqis say we're not showing how bad it really is". Olberman's going off, which is to be expected, but I've seen others setting the record straight, even on the Today show this morning. Are we seeing the beginnings of a huge media backlash? Will they now start doing their jobs and nail this SOB and his cronies to the wall?

Edit: changed subject to be less inflamatory

[aquart]

1. Well, the polls help.

[shaniqua6392]

2. From your lips to God's ears...

We can hope. It is all we have.

[Alamom]

3. We can hope. n/t

[AlCzervik]

4. Bushco will try anything at this point to get those poll numbers back up

you know the ones he doesn't pay attention to? This week--the media, next week--the liberals--week after that--polar bears.

[DanCa]

5. I dunno theres still that pesky 30 percent that support the party...

come hell or high water. Hell if a Dem had screwed up this much there would be mobs carrying torches in front of the white wash house by now.

[Ilsa]

6. Hey, Dave, I'm wondering if you might want to

change that to "political death warrant" in your header. I'm not an mod, but it caught my attention because it looked like a literal deal, not a figurative one.

But a worthy question to ask, about him pissing off the media. funny, he and Rove and the rest of them have always believed that perception created reality, and that was a driving force in haivng more beholden corporations owning media. :thumbsup:

[FatDave]

10. OK, OK...

Changed it. But now I feel like a total pussy.

[Ilsa]

15. Well, I would never think that about you...

I suppose you are normally a risk taker. I've seen the mods jump all over posts with the A-word. I guess sometimes it pays not to draw attention to oneself. I think it would totally suck if DUers were hauled in for questioning over a misunderstanding.

[Cleita]

7. So what took them so long.

They've been blaming the "liberal" media ever since his unelected self took office.

[FatDave]

19. Well, they've been harping on the "liberal media" since Clinton

But does anybody outside of the far-right nutjobs actually believe that? If the media now starts reporting every gory detail (maybe by picking up footage from Al Jazeera?) then it could only be interpreted one of two ways by the viewing public: Either they were glossing over it before (which is the truth) or things have suddenly gotten much worse in Iraq (not necessarily the truth, but a perception that still damages the Bush admin).

Wasn't the news coverage of Vietnam one of the main things that caused public lack of support? If they now start doing what they should be doing, it's going to be really hard for the right to spin it positive.

[Poppyseedman]

8. "Seems like blaming the media may not have been such a wise move"

It's a Perfect move.

The bush and the right wing spin is the media is treating bush unfairly and not reporting any "good" news, blaming the media!

It presents the media as bias and not trustworthy. Everything must be taken with a grain of salt.

Are we seeing the beginnings of a huge media backlash?

For the public to accept this, they need to trust the media, which as of right now it is about as trustworthy as a used car salesman.

[tuvor]

9. Helen Thomas on KO, said she feels the reporters are coming out of their

coma.

[alfredo]

11. Make sure the media gets bombarded with the story

about the Memo on war crimes.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4863599/site/newsweek/

It is up to you to be the media.

[walldude]

12. Ha... NO

Please the only thing that will get rid of Bush is a sex scandal or an out and out revolution. He's already broken the law.

[MissWaverly]

13. Their meaness will lose the faith of American people

Laura Ingraham smearing the journalists in Iraq saying that they stand on balconies and
just photograph people getting blown up by IED's. Funny all the footage that I have seen
are shots from the ground. Also 70 journalists have been killed in Iraq, 3 are kidnapped
and still being held. I don't think that happened while they were standing on balconies,
do you? (I heard those stats on NBC Nightly News last night). I heard a reporter on
Jim Lehrer tonight say that it is even worse than what you see on Tv. People are so
scared that they are fleeing, they are too scared even to go home to their neighborhoods
to get their things.

[sandnsea]

16. The irony in that

Is that journalists ought not be able to stand on any balcony and photograph anything blowing up. That's actually an indictment, that journalists can't even find a safe place to stay. What a twit.

[MissWaverly]

20. I heard a Bushbot on Jim Lehrer the other night

He said that the journalists should be very careful what they put in the news because it
can have negative impact. Instead of writing stories about casualties; they should write
stories about the heroes fighting over there. Upbeat stories are okay, but the reporting
must be objective, we must know what is going on. The news in this country can not
become a propaganda machine for the ruling party.

[KansDem]

14. "Hell hath no fury like the media scorned..."

The question is: Will W and the Corporate Media whores kiss and make up?

edited to add word

[Glimmer of Hope]

17. There was backlash after Katrina but it didn't seem to last long.

I don't think the focus on the war will last long either. It is getting a lot of attention this week because of the anniversary but they will soon turn their focus on something else I am afraid. It seemed that not too long ago, there was no reporting about what is really going on in Iraq. Something is better than nothing I guess.

[mike_c]

18. the real problem with the media is its corporatization...

...and the motives of corporations don't change no matter what anyone SAYS about them. The only thing that will cause the media to turn on Bush in any significant way is a threat to the profitability of media corporations. Stoking controversy hardly seems likely to do that, IMO, and while individual working journalists and such might feel stung by Bush's remarks, the media at large serves their accounting offices, not their newsrooms.