Analysis: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest

[Chris_]

Analysis: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest

News outlets that are focusing on the incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama's town hall meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric -- and even violence -- of liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. Bush in 2002.

When Bush visited Portland, Ore., for a fundraiser, protesters stalked his motorcade, assailed his limousine and stoned a car containing his advisers. Chanting "Bush is a terrorist!", the demonstrators bullied passers-by, including gay softball players and a wheelchair-bound grandfather with multiple sclerosis.

One protester even brandished a sign that seemed to advocate Bush's assassination. The man held a large photo of Bush that had been doctored to show a gun barrel pressed against his temple.

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"As the president spoke, demonstrators outside held posters declaring him a socialist and dubbing him 'Obamahdinejad,' in reference to Iran's president," the Post reported. "People screamed into bullhorns to protest a bigger government role in health care. 'Nobama Deathcare!' one sign read. A young girl held up a sign that said: 'Obama Lies, Grandma Dies.' Images of a protester wearing what appeared to be a gun were shown on television."

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that a Democratic congressman discovered that "an opponent of health care reform hanged him in effigy" and was confronted by "200 angry conservatives." The article lamented "increasingly ugly scenes of partisan screaming matches, scuffles, threats and even arrests."

No such coverage was given to the Portland protest of Bush by The New York Times or the Washington Post, which witnessed the protest.

What??? ....a biased MSM???   

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[TheSarge]

Different President...different set of rules.

Just goes to show that the Libs think they have some kind of Divine Right to be the ones in power and that anyone challenging their power...must be eliminated.

[Chris_]

Sounds a little like Germany when another dictator was in charge. I wonder what kind of heat we would be getting if Bush had done any of these things that the Zero is doing?

[AllosaursRus]

Sounds a little like Germany when another dictator was in charge. I wonder what kind of heat we would be getting if Bush had done any of these things that the Zero is doing?

Bush tried to change SS for the better of us all and keep it solvent. You see how the left treated that!

[thundley4]

Bush tried to change SS for the better of us all and keep it solvent. You see how the left treated that!

Don't worry. I read today that SS is on the agenda for later this term for Dear Leader.

[Chris_]

While watching the news tonight I am really worried about my kids and their future.  We keep spending and spending we are going to be as broke as the nations we help.