President Bush spoke to military and civilian families in Wheeling, West Virginia this afternoon about the War in Iraq. As usual, he spent a long period of time with the audience to answer the questions they may have. One woman, a military wife, told President Bush about her husband’s career as a military broadcast journalist and the footage he got about how great things are going in Iraq. She told the President that many cable news channels are just not reporting good news and only the bad news. She wanted to know what people could do to see the good happening in Iraq. President Bush’s answers: The blogs and the internet:
WOMAN: This is my husband who has returned from a 13 month tour in Tikrit.BUSH: Oh yeah, thank you buddy. Welcome back!
WOMAN: His job while serving was as a broadcast journalist and he has brought back several DVDs full of wonderful footage of reconstruction, of medical things going on, and I ask you this from the bottom of my heart for the solution to this. Because it seems that our major media networks don’t want to portray the good, they just want to focus –
[tremendous applause from audience]
——on another car bomb or they just want to focus on the more bloodshed, or they just want to focus on how they don’t agree with or what you’re doing when they don’t even probably know how you’re doing what you’re doing anyway. But what can we do to get that footage on CNN, on FOX, to get it on Headline News, to get it on the local news because you can send it to the news people, and I’m sorry I’m rambling on like I have –BUSH: So was I though, for like an hour –
[laughter]
WOMAN:——can use this and it’ll just end up in a drawer because it’s good and it portrays the good and if people could see that, if the America people could see it, there would never be another negative word about this conflict.
BUSH: Well I appreciate that. No it’s –
[applause]
BUSH: Before I come out and speak, I’ve spoken in Cleveland, gave press conference yesterday. Spoke in Cleveland Monday, press conference yesterday, here today. I’m going to continue doing what I’m doing to try make sure people can here there’s – why I make decisions and as best as I can explain why I am optimistic we can succeed. One of the things that we have to value is that that we do have a media, free media that’s able to do what they want to do and I – you ask me to say something in front of all the camera here [laughter]. Help over there will ya? I just got to keep talking and word of mouth, there’s blogs, there’s internet, there’s all kinds of way to communicate which is literally changing the way people get their information and so if you’re concerned I would suggest that you reach out to some of the groups that are supporting the troops, that got internet sites and just keep the word moving.
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2:21 pm [ Quote ]
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2:47 pm [ Quote ]
Dubya Digs the Blogoshpere…
At Bush’s town hall meeting today in Wheeling, West Virginia, he was asked by a woman whose husband had just returned from Tikrit how she might go about getting “several DVDs of footage of wonderful things” going on in Iraq that her husband had comp…
3:00 pm [ Quote ]
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3:07 pm [ Quote ]
As I said on my blog in my title to my comments on the speech:
“Keep it up W! Let the press give aid and comfort to the enemy, while you give it to those at home.”
3:10 pm [ Quote ]
Keep fighting the good fight Ian, Thank you!
3:54 pm [ Quote ]
Great post, Ian.
3:55 pm [ Quote ]
WAY TO GO “W” We stand behind you and our great county. God bless our military men and woman and the USA!
“The Democrats and their willing accomplices in the MSM have proved themselves to be enemies to our National Security time and time again. They will never be trusted with it again”
4:21 pm [ Quote ]
What a perfect way to lay the smack down on the MSM. “Unlike what it’s popular tell you in places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, this isn’t 1984, and I can’t make the press do anything. I can only continue going straight to the people, and by virtue of the fact that I am appearing in public, have to be covered by the press who is then, in turn, forced to have to broadcast the fact that you all have footage of progress from Iraq, and moreover—want people to see it.”
Stick that in your water bag and douche with it, Helen Thomas.
4:31 pm [ Quote ]
A great article on which countries are actually pro-America.
4:31 pm [ Quote ]
Where To Get Good News About Iraq? Blogs…
So says President Bush. From Expose the Left, a woman whose military husband returned from Iraq with footage of good news, asked President Bush where it can be broadcast. She lamented the fact that the major news outlets only report…
5:02 pm [ Quote ]
I couldn’t agree more that it’s wrong to focus on the bad news occuring in some parts of the country (like Iraq) to the exclusion of the good happening in the rest of the country. Following this logic, it’s hard to understand why everybody wants to talk only about the bad things that happened on 9-11-01 in a tiny part of our country (the U.S.A.)and not about all the good things that happened that day in the United States. I’ll bet there are DVD’s full of good stuff from that day that never get broadcast. Why oh why does the MSM keep harping on the negative and ignoring the positive?
5:23 pm [ Quote ]
Bush suggests Blogs to get the truth to the public when the media refuses…
Expose The Left has the video of President Bush answering question from the families of service members, and one woman says her husband came home with DVD’s full of the good that is taking place in Iraq. She says that the major media outlets wan…
6:09 pm [ Quote ]
WAIT!
The woman was saying her husband came home with buckets of footage, and she didn’t want it to go to waste in a drawer—so the question she was actually asking hasn’t been answered at all——
Who can she give it to? I mean Ian does this “compile” thing, but thats not exactly original essays about what happened in such-and-such a place on such-and-such a day …
Does it really go into a drawer? Are we really not going to get to see it?
7:53 pm [ Quote ]
We love President Bush. We need to start taking some of those silly polls that are so negative.
Get a “W” bumper sticker and put it on your car! We’ll show the libs that we still support the Pres.
7:59 pm [ Quote ]
Mr. President we will not falter, we will not fail. The revolution has been blogged!
8:01 pm [ Quote ]
Bush continues to rally support for the war…
This is the exact kind of thing Bush needs to continue to do. Get out in public, openly discuss the war, Q&A with the public, and generally be his normal funny, charming self. It puts most Americans at ease (at least those who don’t suffer from Bush ….
8:13 pm [ Quote ]
Wow what a great site! At last some decent talk and ideas Go George W!
Thank you
Mike
8:48 pm [ Quote ]
“...there’s blogs, there’s internet, there’s all kinds of way to communicate…”...
Expose the Left has the must see video of President Bush being questioned by a military wife. Here’s a key excerpt of that exchange:WOMAN: This is my husband who has returned from a 13 month tour in Tikrit. BUSH: Oh…
11:15 pm [ Quote ]
Does anyone know how many people were in attendance at this townhall function. I’m curious to know if it was more than 944. Which is the number of people polled by Zogby about US troops wanting to come home in less than a year.
11:18 pm [ Quote ]
President Bush: “Read blogs.”...
He gets it! He really gets it! Now if he’ll just start taking his own advice….
11:23 pm [ Quote ]
Nevermind, there was more than 2,000 supporters there. Mostly members of the military and their families. I wonder what they think about Zogby taking question 15 from their survey, and promoting it without giving the responses to the rest of the questions. Many of the questions on the survey would negate how question 15 is being represented by the media. Of course the media is completely ignoring the fact that the poll was funded by an “anonymous” anti-war source. George Soros anyone?
12:30 am [ Quote ]
Keep it Moving….
From Expose the Left: President Bush spoke to military and civilian families in Wheeling, West Virginia this afternoon about the War in Iraq. As usual, he spent a long period of time with the audience to answer the questions they may have. One woman,...
5:59 am [ Quote ]
That was pretty intense.
See now, your average Bush-hating lib will look at that and STILL not be able to figure out why they are getting their asses kicked in elections. They won’t understand that reaction in that video was GENUINE - that MOST Americans are genuinely pissed off at the mainstream media for focusing on every bad moment in the war.
9:25 am [ Quote ]
God Bless President Bush!
11:52 am [ Quote ]
The military and the media…
I’ve got a lot going on this morning, but I wanted to pass along to you a few articles/blogposts that relate to the Iraq war:
Lorie Byrd from Polipundit writes in an opinion piece at Townhall.com titled “The war about more than hurt feel…
12:24 pm [ Quote ]
My “W” sticker has been on the car since 2004! I’m thankful every day W is our President! A true leader. The troops are proud to serve their country and Commander in Chief.
1:40 pm [ Quote ]
If anyone knows who this woman and her husband are, Powerlineblog is trying to find them to help publicize their DVD’S.
www.powerlineblog.com
powerlinefeedback@gmail.com
4:00 pm [ Quote ]
Yet another friendly-fire press conference where all the participants are vetted in advance. The 1st amendement allows the average citizen to “petition the government.” Unfortunately the Bush administration doesn’t egiv much heed to this, and presents a false front to the world.
America was created by dissenters. By blocking them you only give rise to greater action! Don’t be fooled by the GOP love-fest that perpetuates the myth of alls-well-in-the-world. Your middle class values and way of living have been eroded the past six years, and will continue.
Vote Libertarian in 2006!
4:06 pm [ Quote ]
Let It Shine…
Here’s a good example of why I spend hours each day working on
this little blog of mine. Yesterday President Bush was responding to a question, a plea rather, from the wife of a soldier who just returned from Iraq. She offered him several DVDs .....
5:50 pm [ Quote ]
Where was she when I was in school? My English NEVER caught on to my advances.
5:51 pm [ Quote ]
Okay, wrong post. I must be bipolar
3:06 pm [ Quote ]
Bush’s Candid Moment…
Several posts (Steve Rubel, BL Ochman ..etc) picked on how President Bush acknowledged Blogs as increasingly powerful media. The video is available here. The story is already widely discussed, I don’t want to echo it, rather pick a un…
11:31 am [ Quote ]
[...] A video of the President’s question and answer session in West Virginia where he mentions blogs can be found here. Technorati Tags: blogging, George W. Bush [...]
5:56 pm [ Quote ]
[...] See the video of this exchange at Expose the Left. [link] [...]
6:09 am [ Quote ]
WAIT!
The woman was saying her husband came home with buckets of footage, and she didn’t want it to go to waste in a drawer—so the question she was actually asking hasn’t been answered at all——
Who can she give it to? I mean Ian does this “compile” thing, but thats not exactly original essays about what happened in such-and-such a place on such-and-such a day …
Does it really go into a drawer? Are we really not going to get to see it?
War???What war…I believe gdumb declared it over 3 years ago..him and his colleauges should all get the boot.This guy doesnt have a clue on how to run a country, let alone a war.
4:57 pm [ Quote ]
Years ago when Israel moved out of Lebanon, Lebanon agreed to contol Hezbolla and did not. If she was unable she should have asked for UN Support but did not, nor did she stop Syria and Iran from supplying Hezbolla.
Israel is completely justified in destroying Lebanon if necessary to stop Hezbolla.