Video: Bush erupts against attention-deficit media
posted at 12:45 pm on April 29, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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This video is a keeper. When a reporter challenges George Bush on his credibility when he describes the US as winning in Afghanistan, Bush at first tries to explain that “winning” doesn’t mean the war is over. Bush notes that he has said repeatedly that tough fighting remains ahead. After the reporter tries asking the same question again, Bush vents his frustration:
How frustrated did Bush get? He violated the State Department policy outlawing the use of the word “jihadist”, as the boss notes. Maybe Condoleezza Rice will send him a harshly-worded memo.
Overall, though, this exemplifies the vapidity of American war coverage. We saw this in the Basra coverage, where the initial pushback by Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army got portrayed as a great victory and an embarrassing loss for Nouri al-Maliki — and within 48 hours, Sadr started offering terms for retreat. When Maliki’s forces liberated Basra a few days later, the media outlets responded by reminding everyone that the Mahdis fought back, and therefore the victory didn’t count as much.
This war will not be won in the space of a few weeks or months, in Afghanistan or anywhere else. The US and NATO have to build the Afghan government and security forces to be strong enough to maintain their own security. In Iraq, an industrialized nation with at least the traditions of modern governance, that has taken years to accomplish and appears to be on the verge of success. In Afghanistan, which has no such tradition, it will take much longer.
Does that mean we’re losing? Of course not. Does it mean that the enemy will never attempt to attack, and sometimes succeed? Of course not. However, we can count on our media to fail to look past the current news cycle and shriek failure at the earliest possible moment. Small wonder that Bush vented his frustration; after six-plus years of reporting the war, one would have hoped that the media would have learned to do it right.
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I like it when politicians get mad. If it was me I’d have told Saddam a thing or two before the war in a press conference. I think trash talking is good. It helps the morale of people fighting if they know you care. The easiest way to show people you care is to get angry.
ThackerAgency on April 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM
An appropriate, but overdue, reaction from George W.
jediwebdude on April 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Every time I see him of late, I’m reminded that I’m going to miss him.
He’s a good man doing a very difficult job.
Typhoon on April 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM
That is the Bush we needed to see more of during the war.
SCGOPgirl on April 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM
President Bush told Americans in no uncertain terms immediately following the events of 9-11 that we would be engaged in a long and difficult struggle. In the intervening years his message has remained consistent.
Yet, the MSM bimbos continue to struggle with that concept.
HotJavaJack on April 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM
I’m glad to see that the Mr. Rogers persona did not dominate this exchange. This is a look at George Bush the man, not George Bush the talking head. I wish he had spent more time being George Bush the man in the last 7 years. I can see his frustration at dealing with morons.
deewhybee on April 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM
i may get flack for this here in the threads but im gonna miss W when he is gone. I dont agree with alot of what he does….but if BHO or hillary are elected I already know they are gonna be in way over their heads and do far worse….It takes an understanding of whats goin on and what the enemy is fighting for in order to make wise decisions…I fully believe they lack that fundamental understanding… Then again the state department says they cannot use the word jihadist anymore….It is very depressing when you are trying to fight a war in a politically correct way…Its war dammit! fight it hard and win it!
SoCalInfidel on April 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Good for you, G-Dubs. Put the smack down on that be-yatch! They’ve whipped you for some many years now. I’m glad you’re fighting back. Keep it up!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Bush is a good man — he is also a fine leader when he shows it, and here he does.
Richard Romano on April 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Why couldn’t Bush have spoken with this passion from 2001-08? Seriously… Bush’s #1 albatross has been his poor media communications skills. It allowed everyone to characterize him as a dummy who is controlled behind the scenes by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and various nefarious Jewish-Israeli “supporters” called neoconservatives.
That, combined with the bitch-slap that was the discovery that there were no WMD in Iraq (which severely undermined the case for going into Iraq), and the administration’s overconfidence at the outset of this war (”we will be greeted as liberators and our boys will be home by Christmas”), are the biggest contributing factors, I think, to why the popularity of Bush and this war is so low.
Rant over.
Outlander on April 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Well done Dubya, but its like hitting a brick wall.
Defector01 on April 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM
If he could defend our war policies with this much passion, and coherantness every time he spoke about the War on Terror, I guarantee you his approval rating would be higher than 30%, and the party of rational adults would be in much better shape electorally. Why does he have to get pissed at a reporter to do this?
Big Bad John on April 29, 2008 at 12:58 PM
I agree. I wish he had been this passionate and this forth coming every time he spoke to the people.
SoTX on April 29, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Starting at about 1:20, I see the fire and attitude he should adopt towards all the media.
Geronimo on April 29, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Where has this Bush been? It’s about time.
ForNow on April 29, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Yeah no kidding! Where has this guy BEEN?
Notice how quiet everyone got? :P It was like, “Oh man. Dad’s really getting mad. No, really this time.”
I’d love to see this whole thing. Know anywhere we can get it?
apollyonbob on April 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM
It just sucks for us when the new formed democracy chooses to go the route of jihad. We are going to be in this for a very very long time. So be it.
Can’t wait to see the nutroots’ heads pop when the Dems take over the Presidency and make the case of why we need to “stay the course” in Iraq and Afghanistan. That ought to be quite entertaining.
Zetterson on April 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM
He should have walked down and asked for her notepad and wrote down what he said just so it was extra clear to her.
AndrewsDad on April 29, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Took the words right out of my mouth. His passion for protecting America from the “thugs and killers” comes through loud and clear.
txsurveyor on April 29, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Y’know, McCain’s gonna need a press secretary…
CliveStaples on April 29, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Bush is wasting his time talking to these dunderhead reporters. The idea of rational thinking is completely foreign to their abstract view of what makes the world go round.
As always the press is not interested in anything but attempting to make a fool of the president. Having an R after your name makes any president fair game.
I’m of the belief that many of these so-called reporters got their degrees in journalism out of a box of Crackerjacks and their common sense from reading Trotsky and Lenin.
Oh how the world will change to these nincompoops the very day a Democrat is sworn in as president. Won’t it be grand when once again our president makes all the right moves?
fogw on April 29, 2008 at 1:02 PM
only bad part about that press conference is that again Bush tries to get the Palestinians and Israelis to ‘negotiate’ and the like. He calls Hamas out but refuses to acknowledge Abbas’s role in the terror.
But yeah beyond that great speech
Defector01 on April 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM
It was a thirty second lead in on ABC. Nothing about the democrats stalling on energy policies but that Bush was testy after she asked the same question three times.
jukin on April 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM
And ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN will play all 2:46 of this?
Wake me up…quick.
Limerick on April 29, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Notice how quiet everyone got? :P It was like, “Oh man. Dad’s really getting mad. No, really this time.”
I know it’s gonna hurt them more than it hurts him.
mymanpotsandpans on April 29, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Man. I would have liked to have seen this guy the last 7 years.
I think by trying to “play nice” to his enemies and critics…he ends his administration with nobody on either side really liking him much at all.
If he’d been this firm and steadfast all along and explaining in such clear decisive terms (”we’re fighting thugs who are willing to strap bombs onto their bodies and walk into where the innocent dwell. Is it in our interest to confront them?”) ..he’d be much more liked…and have a lot more of the American people willing to follow his lead.
Instead by playing nice he’s let himself be defined by the very political opponents he’s tried so hard to “set a new tone” with.
Sarjex on April 29, 2008 at 1:06 PM
I second that. I think history is going to treat him well.
Rod on April 29, 2008 at 1:06 PM
More, W, More.
THE CHOSEN ONE on April 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM
YEEEEESSSSSS!
Way to tee-off! Bush is spot on when it comes to the nature of the long war. Had Gore been elected he’d still be trying to serve OBL a search warrant.
moxie_neanderthal on April 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM
that’s the man I voted for TWICE… and I’m going to write in Cheney/Bush 08 on my ballot this year. hey it’s legal.
Kaptain Amerika on April 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM
There is NO DOUBT that in a few years, we will truly see how good a President George Bush had been
chief65 on April 29, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Yes. A Sergeant Hulka moment.
mymanpotsandpans on April 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM
A degree in Journalism has a minor in major stupidity.
Jihadist is a generational thing. Make your children aware of the coming threat.
Kini on April 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Sigh.
There’s no hope.
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM
I watched it twice. :D
p40tiger on April 29, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Wishful thinking, I know, but I hope he keeps Dana Perino. I am absolutely smitten with her.
(Notice how certain I am that McCain will be our next president?)
Rod on April 29, 2008 at 1:11 PM
What a vapid, ignorant little twit. It’s obvious that intelligence is not required to be a White House reporter. Argueably the most powerful man on the planet is standing in front of this woman and the only questions she can come up with are word game gotcha questions. Moron.
peacenprosperity on April 29, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Bravo President Bush
darwin on April 29, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Better late than never, Dubya. Keep that fighting spirit. It will serve you well.
And please, please, please put as much bureaucratic mass in motion to keep this struggle going as long as possible after you’re gone. Clean house at State, DCI, Centcom, wherever you can. Hillary won’t fight it any more effectively than Bill, McCain’s somewhat inconsistent in how he says fight it, and Ellsworth won’t fight it at all.
spmat on April 29, 2008 at 1:17 PM
His problem is that he truly is a decent man. His insistence on being civil that turned him into a punching bag was his downfall.
And by the way…THERE WERE WMD’s in Iraq!!!!!! The missing drums of the chemical components will be found on day (in Syria I’m sure) will vindicate Bush. Then again, WMD’s were never the sole reason for the war and we have not been hit since but that doesn’t matter to the anti-American left.
If either if the Dems get in, the country will sorely miss this man!
libhater on April 29, 2008 at 1:17 PM
It took losing congress in 2006 for him to fight the press and find his veto pen for congress’s ridiculous spending. What a shame.
funky chicken on April 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM
That was like the Headmaster finally coming into the classroom and schooling the spoiled and unruly children.
It’s the every day teachers (authors, bloggers, radio folks, military and civic leaders, parents, etc) who have been trying to impart this lesson all along…these are the ones who get a gold star today.
RushBaby on April 29, 2008 at 1:20 PM
No, the problem is he’s a liberal.
But whatever. Don’t let me get in the way of the Hot Air Bush love-fest!
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:20 PM
I still disagree with Bush that spreading democracy is the only way to fight the Jihad. We also have to hold the leaders and those that practice Islam accountable to a degree. Islam must change, period. We (our leaders included) can’t keep pretending that violence isn’t a major part of it’s theology and these jihadists are a mere fringe element.
lowandslow on April 29, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Good grief, people. It’s nice to see Bush snap at a journalist, but let’s not forget that he doesn’t have any credibility when he talks about making progress in Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s a completely legitimate criticism to say that the Bush administration has been disingenuous about the amount of progress we’ve made in both wars.
He may be a good man, but his leadership has been dreadful.
Enrique on April 29, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Fookin beautiful, but far too little far too late.
The President, by design or not, ceded the public communications ground to opponents on the battlefield and in the press long ago, and it probably cannot be regained.
It is years past the time when the WH communications shop should have been stopping pressers in their tracks to call these reporters out by name and slam them into the rhetorical turf any and every time they come forward with crap like this.
No one did this better than the former perjurer in Chief, Bill Clinton. Look back at his standups such as the one by W in this clip. Clinton thought nothing of stopping an event dead in its tracks and slamming a reporters head into a turnbuckle if a question was framed in a biased or misinformed way.
This WH is constantly telling us about the interconnectivity of battlefield space, but they have colossally failed to put that into practice with regard to their public communications strategy.
If Harry Truman’s oversight committee was worth 2 divisions to Gen Marshall in WW2, the weak and tone deaf WH Com shop has cost the allies at least that much since 9/11.
Mike D. on April 29, 2008 at 1:22 PM
I watched this live this morning and yeah, W got livid with her .. the crowd got very quiet. But later another reporter asked when she was gonna get an ‘exculsive at the ranch’ just to rub salt in Martha’s wound.. W got at kick out of that!
And of course several of them tried to draw W into the election, which he resisted until late in the p/c when he did say a couple of times that he expected John to be elected and laughed about how they had succeeded in drawing him into it.
:-)
Texas Gal on April 29, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Mark my words:
We will miss GW Bush’s leadership, his focus and his seriousness when it comes to this war.
mylegsareswollen on April 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Islam will never change — at least not anytime within the foreseeable future (I’m talk hundreds if not thousands of years here).
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Last year in office, he’s got nothing to lose. I hope this is the beginning of several months of ballsy moves that I know Dubya has been wanting to break out for years now.
MadisonConservative on April 29, 2008 at 1:26 PM
How dare you question Bush, you far-left moonbat!
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Your ignorance is duly noted.
fogw on April 29, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Good speech, and response to that idiots question. He needs to get pissed off MORE often and put the mission in perspective MORE often.
tx2654 on April 29, 2008 at 1:31 PM
I bet bush just wished he could drive his point home in the reporter’s pointed head with a steel baseball bat.
What is that woman? Stupid? Deaf? Dumb? or all three?
But then the vast majority of journalists anymore are, by definition, as dumb as a post.
CrazyFool on April 29, 2008 at 1:31 PM
A lot here must not get to see the entire press conferences live. I make a point of watching them and I see this side of W a lot. It’s true that he is a very patience person so he doesn’t show anger easily, but that’s because he is well-grounded. I find it surprising that some find that to be a weakness of his character.
Texas Gal on April 29, 2008 at 1:32 PM
I wish he would say…”are you stooopid or sumptin?”, he never said win, he said winning, progress…I have said it before, will say it again, people hate stupid journalists, and the sooner a politician takes them down a notch the quicker he will be elected.
right2bright on April 29, 2008 at 1:32 PM
That is the Bush we needed to see more of during the war.
SCGOPgirl on April 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM
How true
I dont fault him for his choices, I fault him for his leadership. He needed to speak like this more because that is what he knows.
Trying to sell ALL the people ALL the time it never works.
TroubledMonkey on April 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Better late than never?? I disagree. It is like a kick in the teeth knowing that he has/had it in him.
Hunt035 on April 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I am really surpirsed that the media hasn’t taken the clip of Michael Yon when he appeared on Fox and Friends and said that we could lose in Afghanistan if we didn’t keep our eye on the ball. When he said it I cringed because I just knew it would be touted as the gospel and all of a sudden the liberals would be falling in love with Yon.
Expect to see more questions and stories now on the forgotten war in Afghanistan. The jihadis realize this and while they have been routed as any kind of organized military force from Afghanistan their groups of syncophats all over the country can still grab headlines and cause trouble.
In Iraq there are visible and measureable signs of progress, in Afghanistan those type of visible signs are harder to find mostly because of the nature of the country, its’ people and their culture.
The Dems are not scoring points with the constant critcism of Iraq so through their enablers in the media they want to, no they need to, bring the story back to Afghanistan.
Just A Grunt on April 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Coming from Bush sycophant like yourself, that means a lot. Really.
/sarcasm
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Bush should do this every single day. There is an endless supply of brain-dead media idiots to ask him the question. And he should answer it, over and over again, until people begin to understand.
gridlock2 on April 29, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Why couldn’t he be this good with the media right from the start of his presidency?
AlexB on April 29, 2008 at 1:38 PM
That was a stellar performance by our beloved President. Bravo Mr. President. Bravo!
Zorro on April 29, 2008 at 1:40 PM
There’s the guy I voted for.
shooter on April 29, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Why don’t you tell me everything you know about me and my opinion of Bush and ALL of his policies?
Genius.
fogw on April 29, 2008 at 1:41 PM
I wonder if they found a puddle where Martha was standing after the dress-down.
dalec on April 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM
I’d like to see stuff like that more often.
forest on April 29, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Unfortunately, history is no longer written by the victors, but by Marxists. Just check the History faculties at any university nowadays.
newton on April 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Right after you prove to me that Bush is not a liberal.
Genius.
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Well, in fairness, he’s not the only one noting it.
tom on April 29, 2008 at 1:49 PM
John Roberts.
Samuel Alito.
fogw on April 29, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Haha.
Just never mind. Good Lord…
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Seriously, when I read things like
and…
it just goes to further prove that Hot Air really isn’t a serious conservative blog.
2Brave2Bscared on April 29, 2008 at 1:57 PM
President Bush makes me proud. He is a good man, doing the toughest job in the world. Those of you asking, “Where has this guy been?” remember that you still get quite a bit of your news though the liberal prism of old media. He hasn’t changed-this is the President Bush that Media attempts to ignore.
Doug on April 29, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Your resemblance to Emily Litella is duly noted.
fogw on April 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I think they should stop calling it a “War” …maybe calling it ANYTHING else would be better.
a Supression
a Conflict
a Confrontation
Maybe the word “WAR” is just too much for the press to take. Too many possible definitions….maybe we have to get more specific. Yes they’re only words, but that’s what opinion is…that’s what media is…
Just a thought.
beefytee on April 29, 2008 at 2:02 PM
I can’t imagine any of the candidates being able to fill Bush’s shoes.
blue13326 on April 29, 2008 at 2:03 PM
‘Bout 6 years of press conferences too late.
But good to see.
Reaps on April 29, 2008 at 2:07 PM
What amazed me the most is the disrespect she showed the President…
Like him, or dislike him… he’s still the President.
Her Whitehouse Press Pass should be pulled.
Romeo13 on April 29, 2008 at 2:10 PM
So Martha Ratsh*t of Cheney “So?” fame eats it again. GOOD!
I am so F**king SICK of the MSM’s dealing with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as if they’re episodes of American Idol!
The war in Iraq’s not “popular”, Mr. Vice President…
There was an IED attack in Iraq today Mr. President. Do you still think we’re winning? Do You? Hmm?
Who is your favorite jihadist, Mr. President?
Do you think these cammies will make my ass look fat in the Green Zone, Mr. Vice President?
Assh*les!
Teddy on April 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Oh Snap!
That was awesome! Wish we would have seen more of that.
I wonder if the moonbat will talk about W’s ‘anger problem’ now, lol.
jharada on April 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I don’t disagree. Every time I hear him say ‘I’m the decider” I want to reach through the scream, grab him by the lapels and scream at him, “No! You’re supposed to be the leader! Get out there and do your damn job!”
Still, what we forget is that great leaders are very, very, very rare. They come if we’re lucky once in a lifetime. My lifetime has already had Reagan so I can’t realistically expect another. No, Bush isn’t a great leader. I understand that. But he is a good man doing a very difficult job, his heart is in the right place, he’s kept my country safe…
and I am very much going to miss him.
Typhoon on April 29, 2008 at 2:15 PM
About freakin time.
amerpundit on April 29, 2008 at 2:18 PM
In the pantheon of obnoxious journalists, Martha couldn’t carry Helen Thomas’ bra strap.
As a fascist criminal mastermind, I don’t see why Bush just didn’t make her disappear.
moxie_neanderthal on April 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Oh this is priceless,CNN’s info babe(Less of the babe tho!)
Here’s a classic Liberal confrontation,President Bush
answers her question,asks for a follow-up,Bush does
and then she keeps going.
He cuts off her mic,and she just can’t shut the h!LL
up,and Bush gets p!ssed
This is an example of an idiot Liberal so-called journalist.
President Bush talked to her in the past and as a brain dead
journalist,I don’t know if she forgot the previous interview
on Bush’s ranch,or she has the need to bring it back up!
These Liberal journalists I think like to ask the same question over and over,accept they ask it differently,
and I don’t blame President Bush for his attitude!
So,like anybody that gets the same question asked over
and over,you would be ticked off as well!
canopfor on April 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM
It’s funny how the two most liberal Republican Presidents of the last 50 years (Bush and Nixon) are considered by liberals to be Satan and Beelzebub.
I disagree with Dubya on plenty of issues, but I appreciate the hell out of the fact that he’s leader enough to fight back against our enemies when we get attacked.
Praise of Bush does not mean one is a liberal, and criticism of Bush does not mean one is a conservative.
Bush’s biggest problem is that he’s a nice guy who believes in bipartisanship. And/or that he has no coherent conservative philosophy.
misterpeasea on April 29, 2008 at 2:31 PM
couldn’t pay me enough to do his job. When I was a kid I used to think I wanted to be president…..not so much now.
beefytee on April 29, 2008 at 2:37 PM
definitely overdue
but definitely awesome
good shit GW
saL on April 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Dang!
And I thought all the Ronulans had crawled back into their parent’s basements…
Et tu Brute on April 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM
For someone labelled as incoherent by the liberal media, I think ol’ George just handed out a behind the shed ass beating to this audience. My only comment is that he should have done this sooner and more frequently.
PatriotPete on April 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM
I did too. I told my parents when I was eleven that I was going to be the first woman president.
My mother looked at me and told me, “I think Hillary’s going to beat you to it.”
And this was in ‘92.
All the same, this was an awesome clip. I just wish he’d done this more often.
Esthier on April 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM
You’re more than welcome to find a “real” conservative blog.
We’ll miss you terribly and cry about it for weeks on it, but somehow I think we’ll eventually manage to go on with life again.
Esthier on April 29, 2008 at 2:47 PM
People must have been ignoring Bush for years because I have seen him get snappy lots of times. It might be that the media just does not play those parts on the evening news or something.
and this 2person who thinks Bush is a liberal must be a member of the Aryan Brotherhood or the KKK or something. Because only a true right wing nut case would think George Bush was a liberal.
Terrye on April 29, 2008 at 2:49 PM
:)))
Yeah, how dare they not accept this argument?
freevillage on April 29, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Troll Alert:
But,whatever.Don’t let me get in your way of your Bush
Hot Air love-fest.
2BravetoBscared on April 29,2008 at 1:20PM
2BravetoBscared:I love your comment handle,did Rosie
help you write it!
Why don’t you Liberals just admit that
it didn’t matter what Bush did or didn’t
do.The treatment of Bush was just a payback
for impeaching Bill Clinton,and the disgrace
that Democrats had to endure!
canopfor on April 29, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Glorious podium pounding, emphatic hand gestures, and reasonable speech content that flies over the head of the blind and deaf liberals.
This is the President I twice voted for!! Nice to see him make a return.
Grafted on April 29, 2008 at 3:09 PM
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