Amen. I've been disturbed for a long time at how easy it is for the
media to make political figures seem stupid or wooden or out of
touch. George H.W. Bush is an example. I certainly didn't support
him in 1988 (I"m a lifelong Democrat), but I figured he couldn't
have gotten where he was if he wasn't at least more intelligent
than the average U.S. citizen, but the media--George Will, for
example--treated him as a blithering idiot.
It's probably just a combination of native human malice and
laziness. Then there was Watergate, which gave the press a swelled
head, from which they still haven't recovered.
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