Didymus wrote:
What about Bill Clinton? Say what you want about the man, but he wasn't boring!
No, he certainly wasn't. I remember early on in the Bush administration, there were still news stories about Clinton, something about him falling on the sidewalk while getting the morning paper. At the time, there wasn't anything particularly scandalous or remarkable about Bush, so they just called him "stupid" and left him alone (which was pretty callous in my opinion, as you have to be at least somewhat intelligent in order to win an election). Then, after Iraq they started calling him "stupid" and "a terrorist" (which was even more callous, as he stayed in the White House while the military supposedly mowed down civilians like fish in a barrel). I think the media in general misses Clinton, as the whole scandal made great news and there were always editorials and interviews with pundits that pumped up ratings. The media seems desperate to latch onto anything about Bush that could make a great story, like the CIA leak, Abramoff, all that stuff. Because there's no news like bad news. It's easy to sell! People eat it up! Who cares about the thousands of instances where crimes are averted when someone pulls a gun when there are one or two stories where a youth accidentally shoots a friend? Then they can launch tirades against gun companies for peddling death dealing death guns of death! We can cover the lawsuit, where the jury completely ignores the fact that the gun company never pulled the trigger and focuses on the sadness of the family and decides to award them a big fat sack of money!
Gosh, I'm sick to death of the liberal media. Say what you will about Fox News, but at least it's a different perspective.