Our View: Media did disservice to Bush
Americans have a new president. Despite protests and bad feelings, Bush is now official. However, some Americans can’t get that into their heads – namely the Clintons.
Stealing the spotlight from the new president on his inauguration day, Bill Clinton stopped at Andrews Air Force Base to give one … last … speech.
“I left the White House, but I’m still here,” he said in an unprecedented speech to the military officials, colleagues and friends gathered at the base. “We’re not going anywhere.”
And they didn’t – not until hundreds of hands were shaken and more goodbyes were said.
No former president has ever stopped to give a speech on his way out of Washington, D.C., the major television networks wowed. It was another first, and that’s what media like.
However, as the major networks broadcasted a former president’s final hurrah, President George W. Bush was being toasted for the first time as president at the presidential luncheon. A tradition based on respect and well-wishing for the incumbant. Another first, but no media.
Saturday the media showed a lack of respect not only for President Bush himself, but for his office and thereby our country.
The media once again demonstrated a lack of objectivity that frustrates many journalists and readers alike.