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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (523981)	1/14/2004 2:26:18 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Because the questions of pin heads are not serious ones, deserving consideration. It's like arguing with a 2-year-old, a waste of time. You don't see anyone answering patsy's questions, do you?...

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (523981)	1/14/2004 3:39:23 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769667

Many journalists see the Dean landscape differently. "He's saying a lot of things that are questionable," Time columnist Joe Klein said from Iowa, such as floating a theory, without endorsing it, that President Bush had advance warning of Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "This is the kind of scrutiny a front-runner always gets . . . especially when a guy comes out of nowhere." Said Simon, who is also traveling the state, "Most reporters would much rather err on the side of too much scrutiny." Visual images from the trail show Dean on the defensive. On Friday, he walked briskly down a corridor as a press pack shouted questions about NBC's disclosure of a four-year-old Canadian talk show tape in which the then-Vermont governor dismissed the Iowa caucuses as dominated by special interests. The same day, Trippi noted, the state's front pages blared news of 12 Iowa soldiers wounded in a mortar attack in Iraq. "That's the day the press decides it's going to ask Howard Dean about a statement he made about whether he liked the caucuses or not," Trippi said. "If that's what the press decides America should be talking about, it seemed not to make much sense to us." Eric Boehlert, writing for Salon.com, says Dean is being Gored -- that is, harassed by the same press corps that obsessed on Al Gore's supposed exaggerations, inventing the Internet and so on. "Suddenly, as with Gore in 2000, it seems Dean is battling not only his Democratic opponents and Republican Party officials, he's also wrestling members of the media's chattering class who view him with growing unease and even contempt," Boehlert writes. He singles out The Washington Post for using such words as "abrasive," "flinty," "cranky," "arrogant," "disrespectful," "yelling," "hollering," "fiery," "red-faced," "hothead," "testy," "short-fused," "angry," "worked up" and "fired up" in two Dean features last year. And he says the editorial and op-ed pages, "which double as the house organ of the D.C. establishment," have "taken the lead role in deriding the surging outsider."