Forget Tom DeLay, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. Forget the bellicosity and taunts emanating from the White House occupied by Bush, Cheney and Rove. Forget Fox News and the barb filled rhetoric of right wing religious zealots. According to George Bush Senior, the adversarial political climate in the country has been made worse by bloggers. Here is an excerpt of an interview by Fox News Channel’s Greta Von Susteren with the Bush parents.
GRETA: Why do you think it’s gotten so adversarial? …….
H.W. BUSH: It’s true but that’s not new really. I mean, you go back in history and you’ll find that there was always adversarial politics. There was always gut fighting. And it’s probably a little worse now given the electronic media and the bloggers and all these kinds of things. But I don’t despair about it. I think things — there is a pendulum at work at times so you swing away from the incivility back to more normal climate.
Actually, in my opinion, Bush Senior’s criticism of bloggers was not as egregious as what Fox News had to say about liberal blogs. Perhaps Greta should have played a clip from this video to really rile him up.
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