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VinnyTex Throughout Tuesday's historic coverage of what people are calling "the Second Pearl Harbor," certain members of the media whined that they didn't know where President Bush was. Then there was the inevitable USA Today/Gallup poll asking, "Is President Bush up to the task?"
I don't know how many of you have seen Peter Jennings on ABC, but he was beside himself over the way George Bush handled these attacks. This fine son of Canada doesn't understand why our American president George W Bush went to an Air Force Base in Omaha.
others," and "Maybe it's wise that certain presidents just not try to address the people of the country." Mr Jennings' unhidden, insulting comments toward President Bush and his behavior during the attacks now look like what they were - foolish, whining, babyish, unrealistic selfishness on the part of liberals. We now know from White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer that the reason Bush was out of contact for a while was because Air Force One was also a target of the terrorists as was the White House.
Let me repeat that for great, brilliant journalists like Peter Jennings who think they have a right to know every national secret down to our nuclear launch codes, and who think they are better presidents than George W Bush: Air Force One was zig-zagging back to Washington because it was targeted for attack. Fleischer said that there is credible information that the White House was, in fact, the first target of the airplane that crashed into the Pentagon. So Air Force One was a flying target, the White House was also a target - and this is obviously something that they could not announce at the time. The simple fact of the matter is, if you've got the World Trade Center under attack, if you've got the Pentagon under attack, and if you think an airplane is headed for Camp David, it might also strike you that the White House or the president, wherever he might be, might also be in the crosshairs of these people. It's common sense for a president not to sit there as a sitting duck just to please Peter Jennings or anybody else in the media who might be wondering what the president happens to be doing. I cannot help but think every time something like this happened during previous administrations, all we heard from the media was how the politics of the United States ends at the water's edge. It's just amazing how one-sided, unfortunately, that is - and I know a lot of you have caught it, because I'm getting inundated with e-mail, particularly about some of the things that particular anchors are saying. The Secret Service supposedly was urging the president to stay away from Washington. The job of the Secret Service is to keep the president of the United States alive, not to satisfy the silly little social concerns of Peter Jennings or others in the media. And Bush overruled them late yesterday afternoon and said, "No, I'm going back, I'm going back to the White House and make it work." The point is that the things said by Jennings - that Bush was somehow just not up to this task - made a lot of people angry. That's the wrong time to play that card, Peter, and try to push this media template of Bush as a dolt. There are a lot of people - even libs and Peter Jennings fans - who were embarrassed that he would take this occasion to make that kind of insinuation when he has basically little knowledge of what's going on.
View Replies To: VinnyTex He's been at it again tonight, the puke, saying things like: We're trying to trace the story on why the White House released the Air Force 1 and the White House were targets.
View Replies To: VinnyTex Jennings and Bob Plant at CBS are suggesting tonight that the White House gave out the information about the targets as a cover story for President Bush's running and hiding.
View Replies To: VinnyTex How was Bush to know it was not the first prong of a Chinese attack, a terrorist action, a coup, who knows? He took time to evaluate the situation, the threat, then went into action when he was confident he knew what he was getting into. Our liberal friends got so used to Bill Clinton's foolish knee jerk reactions to everything, they forgot how a responsible president handles tough situations.
View Replies To: VinnyTex We don't do that here in America, Peter. But I fear that Peter and his cohorts will continue in their current roles. They should all be fired for trying to destroy unity at this crucial time, but they won't be.
View Replies To: VinnyTex You can add Jay Severin, Margery Eagan and her sidekick Jim the Marxist to your list of "military" geniuses who wanted command and control to return to ground zero.
View Replies To: VinnyTex Oh, let the libs have their snit. They know that Bush is up to this challenge and now will. My guess is the red zone got considerably larger in the last couple of days.
View Replies To: greyfoxx39 You know, I think anyone that still listened to these douchebags at ABC have now gotten their wake up call. Jennings and Rather are soon to be forced out if these networks have any intention of staying competitive in the news business.
View Replies To: VinnyTex Peter Jennings has made me extremely mad. All day he tried to make the White House Spokesperson out as a liar because he(Jennings) could not access the information that was obtained that suggested that the White House and AF One was a target. Jennings harped about not being privy to the information and continually questioned the veracity of Fleicher's statements. Jennings also lauded K-Mart's decision to not sell ammunition to honest Americans yesterday. I called K-Mart today and expressed my displeasure with the political pandering of K-Mart their assistance to terrorist intentions. Most of the K-Mart employees just yada yada me but I let the liberal SOB's have it.
View Replies To: VinnyTex Besides firing off e-mails to ABC demanding the firing of Peter Jennings, all Freepers, no, all Americans should also let all advertisers on ABC and the ABC web site know we will NOT do business with them again until Jennings is either fired or apologizes to our great country.
View Replies To: VinnyTex i listen to rush, medved, savage, etc. i e-mailed KVI and asked why they had this moron on and if they are truly controlled by the liberal media? i received an 'auto reply' and after that i told them to go to hell. but i'm sure abc has gotten thousands of complaints against the stupid canuck!
View Replies To: jwalsh07 And add Maureen Dowd to the list too. She wrote a sizzling column deriding Bush for not being in Washington within 12 hours of the attack. Also stated that the WH was evacuated and grown men were running out screaming.
View Replies To: VinnyTex The more I think of it, Jennings sounded like he *wanted* Bush to do the dumb thing. And then I read he was linked to the pro-palestinian thinking backa bit...
View Replies To: VinnyTex Over the next week or so the USA (& the free world) will learn its true friends are and Jennings and most of the media will not be included.
View Replies To: VinnyTex Bush should have been addressing the American people instead of shuffling around the country. Once he was moved to another American city and had fighter cover over his head there is not much that can happen. It's not like there are snipers lurking behind every tree in every city just waiting for AF1 to land.
View Replies To: VinnyTex Its a National Tragedy that Jennings and a couple of hundred others of his arrogant airhead reactionary-snob-twit ilk were not in the World Trade Center. America has about 10,000 REAL enemies, most of whom are on Campuses (numerous Marxist & anti-American professors), in Holywood and teh so-called "arts", on the airwaves (tv & radio), in a few "elite" newspapers (especially the New York Times), in a couple of unions (like the National Extortion Association (NEA)), and in a few Leftist "think-tanks", are Marxists & anarchists in responsible and powerful executive & staff postions in the major envior-Marxist organizations like Sierra Club and Greenpeace, who ARE hard-core Marxists and HATE America, and in a few elite and extremely powerful Foundations, which have abandoned their Foun...
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