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Monday, June 21. 2010

The double standard

From Howie Carr via Betsy:


Criticizing Bush - the highest form of patriotism. Criticizing Obama - hate speech. Who caused Bush’s problems? - Bush. Who causes Obama’s problems? - Bush.

When Bush mispronounced a word (like nuclear) - more proof he is a complete cowboy moron.

When Obama mispronounces a word (like corpsman) - how dare you even bring this up, racist?!

Unemployment at 4.6 percent under Bush - a jobless recovery.

Unemployment at 9.7 percent under Obama - the new normal, “steady,” a lagging indicator of the happy days that CNBC says are here again.

Economic woes under Bush - portents of a new Depression. Economic woes under Obama - a blip on the radar screen, surprising.

Cindy Sheehan under Bush - a future recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Sheehan under Obama - give it up already, you old bag.

Bush playing a rare round of golf - complete video coverage, showing his utter indifference to the suffering of the American people.

Obama playing one of his endless rounds of golf - only still photos allowed, yet another glowing indication of our dashing president’s youth and physical fitness.
Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:09 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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I have one small correction to make, and then a little something to add to the narrative.

The word commonly bandied about by the MSM during the Bush years was "recession", not "depression". James Taranto even had a sub-meme going on it, quoting people like former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman claiming we were on the "edge" of a recession -- and then quoting the same claim from a year, two years, three years before. You can bet that little meme died a quick and painless death after Obama took office.

As to the "nu-ku-lar", Michael Medved of Townhall once visited the White House along with some other conservative radio hosts and said that while Bush used the word five or six times during the hour-long conversation, not once did he mispronounce it. That led Medved to conclude that it might very well have been a deliberate attempt on Bush's (or Rove's?) part to have the press view him as a rube and underestimate him as a result.

On the subject, you'd be amazed how many Hollywood actors mispronounce it. I bet I've seen ten movies and TV shows in the last X number of years where it was mispronounced, including by all 'NCIS' fans' favorite nerd, Timothy McGeek. So I guess Hollywood is also infused with bumbling Texan hicks. Who knew?
#1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-06-21 12:33 (Reply)
It's a regional thing, like ax for ask. All know what it means, even if it ain't the King's English.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2010-06-21 12:49 (Reply)
Fie on the King's English, we won the war!

(stolen from a very old cartoon, that lived on the refrigerator for years.)
#1.1.1 Retread on 2010-06-21 13:55 (Reply)
I shudder every time I think about how the media would have treated Bush if the BP mess had happened on his shift!
#2 apple pie on 2010-06-21 21:54 (Reply)
Two events much worse than the BP spill did occur on Bush's watch. 9/11 brought the Jihad War to "hot" and Katrina damaged a large stretch of the Gulf Coast -- the same region, alas, that the BP spill is affecting.
When we were getting to our feet after 9/11, Bush was a hero in the press. Once we were on our feet and started swinging at the enemy, Bush went to bumbling fool cowboy again.
The federal response to Katrina had some bureaucratic idiocy but was generally timely and effective. The state and local responses were criminally negligent. Landreau and Nagin managed to make their errors appear to be federal problems, getting "Brownie" sacked when he didn't deserve it. The greatest problem in the Katrina disaster, the levee break, was a problem thirty years or more in the making. That was no more Bush's doing than it was Landreau's doing.
#2.1 Geoff Brown on 2010-06-22 10:22 (Reply)

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