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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: longnshort who wrote (6127)3/8/2006 8:37:24 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Respond to of 9838
 
SHE CAN 'C' FOREVER

A woman whose various views range all the way from far left to, um, even farther left regularly spells them out at her Web site, barbrastreisand.com.

Though "spell" might not be precisely the correct word.

As The Drudge Report notes, Streisand's latest anti-Bush rant features 11 misspelled words, including "Irag," "curruption," "subpoening," "desperatly" and "warrented." A sample: "The arrogance of this C student who maligns his opponents' crediblity [sic] by calling them flip floppers . . ."

Oh, those arrogant C students!

This is not the first time one of her missives was found to be riddled with poor spelling - though 11 errors may represent a personal best.

After the news got out, Streisand's people (who are the most beleaguered people) quickly raced to correct the typos.

"Responsibilty" (as Babs spells it) got pinned on the firm that hosts the site. (She's got nothing to be guilty of, as the song goes.)

None of this is of great consequence - and even then it matters mostly as a matter of local pride.

Streisand is a product of Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School - graduating back when, according to legend, it was churning out top scholars.

And, to be charitable, one "C" speller.

nypost.com



To: longnshort who wrote (6127)3/8/2006 10:26:31 AM
From: PartyTime  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9838
 
>>>Bush is up to 41% but ABC and the Wash Post won't report it<<<

You've gotta be quite the Bush 'groupie' to be braggin' 'bout somethin' like that--lol!



To: longnshort who wrote (6127)3/8/2006 10:31:33 AM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9838
 
Bush Now Less Popular Than Nixon During Watergate

Gallup: Bush disapproval rating lowest of any president since Nixon
RAW STORY
Published: March 8, 2006

More than 4 in 10 Americans strongly disapproving of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, according to the latest CNN/Gallup poll, the lowest of any president except Nixon in the waning months of his presidency. Just 40 percent of Americans believe Bush can manage the country effectively; Bush registers a 38% approval rating with a 60% disapproval rating.

When Americans were asked a follow-up of whether they strongly approve or disapprove of Bush, more than twice as many Americans say they strongly disapprove (44%) as say they strongly approve (20%) of Bush. The strong disapproval rating is the highest Gallup has measured for Bush by a percentage point, and is the highest for any president since Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.

Nixon is the only other president to register strong disapproval ratings above 40% in Gallup Polls. Nixon had a 48% strong disapproval rating in February 1974, and a 46% rating days before he resigned from office in August 1974. Gallup first asked about strength of approval during the Lyndon Johnson administration, and has asked it periodically for every president since.

Forty-nine percent of Republicans now strongly approve of Bush, the lowest expression of solidarity with Bush by his own party to date. A majority of Democrats, 68%, strongly disapprove of Bush -- as they have each time the intensity follow-up has been asked since September 2003. For the first time, a majority of independents, 53%, now strongly disapprove of Bush.