Flash! President Bush Says He Reads Papers
Is there hope for newspapers after all? Readers may be abandoning the printed versions, but over the last couple of years, at least one person seems to have started reading them, at least sometimes. He lives in the White House. President Bush declared in 2003 that he did not read newspapers, but at his final news conference of the year last week, he casually mentioned that he had seen something in the paper that very day. Asked for his reaction to word that Vice President Cheney would be called to testify in the C.I.A. leak case, the president allowed: “I read it in the newspaper today, and it’s an interesting piece of news.”…. That was a marked contrast with his position in 2003, when he told Brit Hume on Fox News that he glanced at the headlines, but “I rarely read the stories,” because, he said, they mix opinion with fact. He said he preferred to get his news from “objective sources” ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ like “people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.”
Wow…how far have we sunk when the media falls all over itself in celebration of the news that the President of the United States ACTUALLY READ NEWSPAPERS? What’s next? Larry King breathlessly breaking the news that Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader can make correct change? Bill O’Reilly hailing the disclosure that The Decider can locate Dallas on a map? Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader announcing that the author of My Pet Goat is our nation’s new poet laureate?
Tony Snow, the president’s press secretary, said in an interview he was certain Mr. Bush read the papers, though he was not sure which ones.
Rumor has it that Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader is a big fan of the Weekly Reader and Boy’s Life. He likes the pictures, from what I hear. I would imagine that he’s also a big fan of reliably Conservative litter box liners like The Manchester Union Leader and The New York Post. Why broaden your horizons, when you can have your ignorance, prejudices, and preconceived notions reinforced by those who wouldn’t recognize objective journalism if it bit them in the ass?
STILL GLAD YOU VOTED REPUBLICAN?
