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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CVJ who wrote (16516)	9/13/2001 1:48:32 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

What Rush had to say about Peter Jennings asking if George was up to the task...the question should be, are the American people going to put up with Jennings crap much longer, before we force him off the air? rushlimbaugh.com 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. Little Peter couldn't understand why George Bush didn't address the nation sooner than he did, and even made snide comments like, "Well, some presidents are just better at it than 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. And there's more… 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. We must all come together. 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. Oh, and by the way, folks. The Secret Service supposedly was urging the president to stay away from Washington. That's their job. 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." But that's not the point. 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. It didn't work. 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. We don't do that here in America, Peter. Here, politics stops at the water's edge.