Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Media - Golf: different presidents, different coverage
More bias of the same kind from our media...
Penny Starr has details at CNSnews.com:
"Despite ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ongoing violence in Iran, and an economy that Obama has described as the worst since the Great Depression, the president has golfed multiple times in the past several weeks--on April 26, May 16, May 25, May 31, June 7, June 9, June 14 and June 21.
Obama’s golf outings have generated favorable reports from the media, in contrast to his predecessor, George W. Bush.
On Aug. 5, 2002, The Washington Post wrote about President Bush golfing near his parents’ home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Under the headline “Before Golf, Bush Decries Latest Deaths in Mideast,” staff writer Mike Allen described Bush as he 'sprang from his golf cart at 6:15 a.m. and said he was distressed to hear about the latest suicide bombers in Israel.'
“Bush, wearing khakis and a knit shirt, was holding a driver in his gloved left hand,” Allen wrote.
'However incongruous the setting, the president plunged ahead,' Allen wrote."
