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02/08/2004 Archived Entry: "Meet The Depressed."
Meet The Depressed.
They must be one depressed bunch over at the White House today.
They ran the pre-recorded Bush interview on MTP today, and while the videotape is still warm, the consensus seems to be that Bush pretty much sucked.
CalPundit points out that the NRO pundits were disappointed. This article and this article and this article all have Bush 'defending' something in their titles. And the DNC has already taken the truth-hammer to the claims that Bush made in the interview. And Slate points out Bush's strange relationship with facts. Even Bush worshiper Peggy Noonan comes out and says Bush, in her own understated way, 'wasn't impressive'.
They probably have the feeling over at the White House that Rove should have turned down the interview at this point.
My bold prediction - any bump in the polls they were hoping for is not going to materialize. On the contrary - the numbers may drop even further this week. And if Scooter Libby gets indicted for the Plame affair (as Tony Blankley apparently predicted on McLaughlin today), the bottom may just drop out altogether.
Note: The Noonan link is an extra treat, in my quest to set a new Blah3 record for most links in one post.
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I've pulled together 20 different reactions from various news sources, blogs and "legit" media, including the first line of the above post... So click my homepage, dammit.
Posted by Hudson @ 02/09/2004 01:06 AM NY
If you suffer through Peggy Noonan's commentary, do yourself a favor and go to the "reader responses" link at the WSJ. The vast majority of responses from the conservative readership is much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Enjoy!
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/responses.html?article_id=110004665
Posted by Larry Dean @ 02/09/2004 03:32 PM NY
