{"id":22378,"date":"2005-01-18T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:34:03","slug":"media_shifts_bush_template_to_evil_genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/01\/18\/media_shifts_bush_template_to_evil_genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Shifts Bush Template to “Evil Genius”"},"content":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s a story that just cleared, just got this from the MSNBC wire, and it\u2019s by Richard Wolffe. Headlined, Window of Opportunity: “He\u2019s hands-on, detail-oriented and hates ‘yes\u2019 men. The George Bush you don\u2019t know has big dreams and is racing the clock to realize them.” Speak for yourself, Mr. Wolffe, a number of Americans do know George Bush, they do know that he\u2019s detail-oriented, that he is a hands-on leader, and we know that he has big dreams, we\u2019ve been talking about them since his first press conference after the election. We\u2019ve been talking about those dreams, his second term agenda since the campaign. It\u2019s only a surprise to members of the media that Bush has a brain. It\u2019s only a surprise to members of the media that he\u2019s a leader. It\u2019s only a surprise to members of the media that he hates yes-men. It\u2019s only a surprise to the media that he\u2019s detail-oriented. It\u2019s only a surprise to the media that he runs his own administration. They think Cheney runs it or somebody else runs it. How else do you explain this story? He\u2019s hands-on, detail-oriented, and hates ‘yes\u2019 men, the George Bush you don\u2019t know has big dreams.<\/p>\n

These are the people that cover him every day and they\u2019re just now figuring out who he is. It\u2019s typical, it\u2019s stunning. You will find such phrases in this story as: “As he starts his final four years in the White House, President Bush is by far the biggest agent of change in his own cabinet. Whether he\u2019s remaking his team or plotting his second-term policies–” Imagine, he\u2019s the president, and he\u2019s sitting up there in the White House and he\u2019s plotting, ladies and gentlemen, he\u2019s plotting his second term policies. “Bush\u2019s leadership style belies his caricature as a disengaged president who is blindly loyal, dislikes dissent and covets his own downtime. In fact, Bush\u2019s aides and friends describe the mirror image of a restless man who masters details and reads avidly, who chews over his mistakes and the failings of those around him, and who has grown ever more comfortable pulling the levers of power. Of course, those closest to Bush have a vested interest in singing his praises. But they also make a compelling case that the president is a more complex and engaged character than his popular image suggests.”<\/p>\n

Who gave us his popular image? Who has created the popular image? None of this comes as any surprise to me. I\u2019m sure it doesn\u2019t come as any surprise to you. And this is the first story since the election that\u2019s actually dealt with this in a straightforward fashion. Most of the story Bush was a caricature created as a dummkopf, as an idiot, as a frat boy, as a cowboy, as a party animal who was being led around the White House by Dick Cheney, and now I think what is going on, just a wild guess, this is probably a prelude to a switch in direction in which the press is going to say he\u2019s now an evil genius or he\u2019s an evil bomber or an evil scientist, he\u2019s in there plotting. This man has been in charge of everything all along and we\u2019ve been fooled. Now we\u2019ve got to really watch out for him because after all he does know what he\u2019s doing and so all these horrible mistakes he\u2019s making he\u2019s making on purpose. He thinks these are good. This is the thing I\u2019m going to predict to you right now that\u2019s coming. He\u2019s an evil mad scientist in the White House plotting all this. He actually wanted all this despair and destruction in Iraq, he wanted it to go wrong, he wanted there to be no weapons of mass destruction, not only did he know it, he wanted it to be the case, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

Of course, t doesn\u2019t make sense, but none of what they said about him prior to this story makes any sense either. None of what they\u2019ve written about George W. Bush makes any sense. It\u2019s stunning, ladies and gentlemen, that the media, the people that are arguably physically closest to him in a sense of covering him on a daily basis are the last to figure him out. And those who support him and trust him and vote for him have known about him, who he is and what he is from the get-go. So just another reason not to trust these people in the mainstream press. They simply don\u2019t get it, and they don\u2019t want to get it, and now when there\u2019s no choice but than to get it, they have to re-characterize what they get as something evil and plotting and something that perhaps is even a bit sinister.<\/p>\n

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