Why is the press protecting George W. Bush? Truth is, the Tribune and the rest of the press clean up Bush's act, wipe his nose, and put words in his mouth that make sense. Those hopelessly biased reporters who cover Bush overlooked the mangled syntax, penetrated the rhetorical fog and extracted some usable lines from the dross and manufactured stories that had the president sounding, if not quite statesmanlike, then at least intelligible. Bush has benefited from this journalistic professionalism throughout his presidency...when Bush utters a word that doesn't even exist, a word such as "misfeance" (2002 press conference), reporters make an educated guess and replace it with a word that does, such as "malfeasance.
- Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune public editor